At the beginning of the Sculpture programme each student will be provided with an appropriate work space and allocated a personal tutor.
There will be opportunities for one-to-one tutorials at appropriate times given by the core staff. Tutorial comments will be given in written form and discussed with the student. Students are expected to write a self-assessment each term on their work in progress.
There is also a student review in the second term, which takes the shape of a formal presentation to the peer group and staff, followed by a private feedback session with core teaching staff. This is to develop presentation skills.
There will be visiting artists each term who will give a talk about their work and then speak to individual students whose work seems particularly relevant. These artists will alter from one term to another and will cover current interests and events outside the College.
In the first week, students will each be asked to make a presentation of their recent work to all other students on the programme. This will familiarise each student with the variety and type of work and concerns in their peer group. The main portion of the student’s work will be concerned with the production of their individual sculpture. The project space will be used regularly for critical discussion of student work in exhibition conditions.
Students also undertake the mandatory Critical & Historical Studies programme in their first year, in which a series of lectures, seminars and tutorials culminates in the submission of a dissertation at the start of the second year.
The programme is designed around students’ sculptural interests. It will help them to clarify and strengthen this identity and, most importantly, provide encouragement for investigative and inventive work processes.
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