• Sculpture

    Resources & Facilities

  • The Foundry, Howie Street (Photograph by Dominic Tschudin)
    The Foundry, Howie Street (Photograph by Dominic Tschudin)
  • Miriam Austin Preparing For Degree Show. Click to view.

    Miriam Austin Preparing For Degree Show

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      • Moving Image Studio. Click to view.

        Moving Image Studio

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  • The Sculpture programme is located in recently refurbished studios on the Battersea campus. The buildings are large, lofty and adaptable, serving both as pragmatic workshops/studios and as open, airy exhibition spaces. There are individual studios and well-equipped workshops.

    Metal workshop: facilities for cutting, forming, drilling, grinding, joining and fabrication. This includes bandsaw, pipe bender, guillotine, sheet rollers, mitre saw, pillar drill, pan and box folder, and lathe. Welding equipment includes spot welder, MIG welder, FIG welder, stick welder and gas welding. There is also a selection of hand tools and power tools.

    Wood workshop: Facilities for cutting, shaping, drilling, sanding, fabricating. This includes bandsaws, radial arm saws, planer thicknesser, lathe and pillar drill. There is also a selection of hand tools and power tools.

    Foundry: Facilities for casting in bronze, aluminium, lead and an annual iron pour; lost wax, ludo and shell investment, CO2 and claybond sandmoulding. There is a mould and wax room, shell room, metal shop, patination room and furnace room. The metal shop has a selection of power air and hand tools and a TIG welder.

    In addition, there is a spray booth with dedicated extraction and a small ceramic kiln. The computer room houses state of the art workstations with the latest 3D modelling and moving image software as well as scanning and colour printing facilities. The Moving Image Studio is adjacent to the Sculpture Building and facilities in other programmes including wide format inkjet and Chromera printing, digital retouching, film scanning, photographic studios and cameras are available by arrangement.