Since the beginning the academic year, full-time Fine Art students working toward Graduate Diploma's and Master's degrees have all been involved in numerous materials-based workshops that serve to inform their ongoing studio work. Read more about their progress here.
West Dean College's Visual Arts alumni have been very active in the last months with a variety of exhibitions, residencies, and events taking place all over the world. Here are a few highlights of what our graduates have been up to, as we look to celebrate their diverse achievements since completed their studies.
Writer-in-Residence William Shaw asks What are you actually supposed to do when you're a writer-in-residence? Apart from write, that is?
How to style your home with flowers and plants
West Dean College is delighted to welcome the artist, sound recordist and composer, Jez riley French, to its 2019 programme. Jez will perform live at West Dean on 28th February as part of Salon Imaginaire #5 and will be running a Field Recording short course in September.
Historic Building Conservation and Repair
Catherine tells us about her lifelong passion for building conservation, and how others can pursue their interest and achieve qualifications here at West Dean College.
Collections, Library and Archive
West Dean College Archivist, Simon Colman, updates on the cataloguing of the Edward James Archive.
The Feral Choir is a vocal experience for those who sing, for those who do not sing and for those who will never sing. Led by the unique and extraordinary singer and improvisation musician Phil Minton, the feral choir workshop will conclude with a live performance of improvised noise at Salon Imaginaire #4.
Mark Radcliffe, Subject Leader for the MA Creative Writing and Publishing programme, enjoys a conversation with Rutendo Chabikwa during her one-week residency at West Dean College.
In a previous post I described the initial stages of my research in the properties and preparation of wheat starch paste. Here I will continue with an outline description of the quantitative and qualitative tests my paste samples were subjected to, in order to identify which parameters might influence the properties of paste.
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