Drawing as a way of living
In our sessions, students are encouraged to develop their observation skill so that the findings and realisations can be ‘recorded’ on a picture plane. Drawing is a great tool to describe space and objects, test ideas, improve sense of aesthetics and express feelings. Experimentation with intuitive marks and different line qualities will allow more freedom to students to explore texture, shape, layering, blending as well as colour elements. Any soft or hard materials can be used for drawing, for example brushes, sticks, scrunched bubble wrap, fingers and engraving tools (printing) to search for the effect that is most suit to the artist’s intention.
Catered themes and carefully chosen artists’ work along with constant 1:1 tutorials and feedback as support, students will be able to develop their high-level thinking and visual language skills to express their concept with meaningful and creative art works.
Photography, photo manipulation & projection art
Photography has unique characteristic that can make an image with technological support and see the result instantaneously. As an artistic discipline, it is a great way to hone creative skills. With pacy speed, students are able to test ideas and learn elements of art, under close supervision and feedback which involves discussion, demonstration to assist to become better from.
The course is carefully curated and based around particular themes such as people-less portrait, ordinary and or extra ordinary, lost and found, movement etc. It is devised to explore identity and various human condition issues to help to exercise students’ own critical thinking skills in developing their personalised body of work. Students are offered to deepen their visual language skills: creating mood using light, dynamic use of framing and understanding rules of composition to successfully communicate their ideas through their photographs.
Our course gets more exciting and original as it explores further, using DIY filters, No-lens photography, eg. cyanotype and diverse ways of photo-manipulation techniques, including chemical transfer printing and vintage slide projector which will be opening whole new possibilities in creating images with exclusively artistic effects.
3D & Installation: Paper Construction/Deconstruction
This workshop encourages students to think out of the box when they approaching art, proudly, resulting in winning many prestigious awards including Royal Academy of Art.
Inspired by an exhibition, Slash: PAPER UNDER THE KNIFE (2009) by Museum of Arts and Design, students will be introduced to paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the diverse use of the material in a range of art forms. With focused experiments and tailored feedback, students will be able to move on with more confidence and bring their true interests and valued qualities in their projects and develop their idea and skills further.
“This project has given new grounds to my ideas as an artist and also provided me with sense of adaptability in terms of using my surrounding materials as part of my art medium.”
Oheji Anthony UPELLE-ODOH (2021 - 2022)
Craft: Textile using tufting gun technique
The traditional textile techniques of weaving and embroidery offer exceptional quality that is infused with warmth in human life. In this course, we want to showcase the diversity and expressive power of the handmade and suggest craft as one of the most exciting experimentation in art today. Students are able to play with the diverse possibilities through materiality, from yarn to wasted plastic, exploring colour, surface, pattern, construction and finish, to develop their individual investigations further with excitement.
