Undergraduate Course: Mixed Media: Unconventional Approaches (LLLA07253)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is designed to further self exploration in materials and processes. Students will be encouraged to consider new ways to push the personal scope of a mixed media approach in their art practice. |
| Course description |
Academic Description: This course will give the student an opportunity to build on previous experience in their mixed media art practice and explore the expressive potential of alternative materials and processes. Through sketchbook research and looking at contemporary practice in this field students will explore options for making small scale working drawings and test pieces which are informed by unconventional approaches.
The aims of course are:
To encourage the student to consider unconventional approaches to mixed media and create work that explores the gap between two and three-dimensional work
To engage in novel approaches to space and material from the two-dimensional surface of paper to three-dimensional space
To think more about fashioning tools and changing the physical properties of low base materials to come up with inventive solutions to drawing in space
To actively seek connections and links that may inform research in surprising ways
To interact with new ideas, media and processes and explore alternatives
Outline of Content:
Explore methodologies employed in drawing for sculpture.
Develop a working method that begins with the collection and selection of materials and ends with the measured task of arrangement, re-arrangement, making and re-making.
Test ways of systematically transforming readymade images and objects.
Develop ideas about how to address both sides of paper and explore ways to extend the drawing from the surface of the paper.
Extend collage approach and explore fragmentation and multiples.
Document work in photographic form and explore the concept of transformation by erasing, bleaching, folding and tearing.
Map out personal projects to define, quantify and outline intentions.
Be inventive and imaginative with tools and materials that are commonly used in everyday life.
Evaluate and Reflect in Learning Journal.
Participate in group discussions and critiques.
Sketchbook content - Research artists in suggested reading list to learn about current approaches and existing practices of relevance.
Explore potential of reformatting work in different ways.
The Learning Experience: The teaching will be based and delivered in specialist art and design studios or workshops and will typically include a range of practical exercises, introductions to techniques, processes and concepts, and set projects which lead to more focused and personal exploration. Over the course, student progress will be monitored and supported by the tutor. Teaching will include practical demonstrations, one to one tuition, group discussions and critiques.
For work required to be undertaken after the class hours are complete, the course tutor will set students a 'directed study plan' which can be undertaken without the need for specialist workshops or access to models.
Directed study will include research into a range of suggested artists and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness. Students are expected to demonstrate how their research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks, a visual digital journal and practical outcomes. The Directed Study Plan will include preparing evidence of research and practical work to form an appropriate presentation for assessment.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Unless otherwise stated, all students on this short course pay a published course fee per enrolment.
In addition to the learning and teaching resources and content, this fee also includes:
Easels
Drawing boards
Chairs and tables
Still life objects and set ups
A range of mixed media papers and cuttings
Cutting mats
Printing inks and rollers
Overhead projector
Black or white paper
In addition to the course fee, students are expected to provide the following list of indicate tools, materials and equipment:
Drawing medium ( at least three to begin the course)
Graphite stick, conte crayon, black marker pen, coloured biro pens, soft pastel (1 red, 1 yellow, 1 blue), oil pastel (1 white, 1 black), wax crayons, black drawing ink
Alternative drawing materials - wire, plastic tapes, threads, fabrics, books, photographs etc
Glue
Eraser
Scissors and craft knife
Current sketchbooks and 1 A4 soft cover stapled Sketchbook |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research, context and ideas (33.3%): Demonstrate an enquiring work ethic and focused experiments for mixed media, employing a range of personal strategies for recording and developing visual ideas and concepts, integrating contextual research.
- Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%): Show resourcefulness and inventiveness in the use of materials and processes to create a range of focused and coherent visual studies and resolved artworks.
- Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%): Evidence independent judgment in the documentation and presentation of research, selection and editing of art works.
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Reading List
Suggested Reading:
CATHY WILKES, Cathy Wilkes,2015, Liverpool: The Tate Modern
CATHY WILKES, Cathy Wilkes, 2001,Glasgow: The Modern Institute
PHYLLIDA BARLOW, Phyllida Barlow: sculpture, 1963-2015, 2015, Edinburgh Fruitmarket Gallery
KATE DAVIS, Kate Davis: role forward, 2010, Glasgow: Centre for Contemporary Arts: Scorcha Dallas
KARLA BLACK, Karla Black - Exhibitions, 2014, Koln: Walther Konig
Sze S, 2007, Sarah Sze, 1969-Criticism and Interpretation : Installation(Art
Web Sources:
http://www.inglebygallery.com/artists/jonathan-owen/
http://ulaeinstein.com/
http://www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram/index.cfm |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Independent judgement
Editing and selection
Critical context
Documentation |
| Keywords | drawing,mixed media,collage,recycled materials,sculpture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Benjamin McNab
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: Benjamin.Mcnab@ed.ac.uk |
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