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This course is designed for those with a practice in making, but who are looking for ways to fully develop their ideas before embarking on time and resource intensive processes. Whether your practice is in ceramics, glass, jewellery, sculpture, painting, textiles, fibre art, etc, two-dimensional or three-dimensional, you will learn and use processes to develop initial ideas to their fullest potential.
You are encouraged to bring images and objects that you are inspired by as a starting point; the tutor will provide some as well. You will use observational and non-observational drawing and collage techniques to explore and interrogate your inspiration, and find the shapes and forms that you wish to harvest for your own use.
Once you have your ingredients, you will look at ways of combining research and inspiration, exploring more drawing techniques and using the photocopier to its fullest potential to produce multiple iterations for each idea, combining, reviewing and refining with the freedom available with these multiple material and time light processes. We will work as a group to support each discovery and explore ways to be a critical friend in the creative process.
By the end of the course, you should have several ideas/designs ready to be developed in your chosen media, as well as ideas you wish to develop and explore further with the new processes and practices you have used.
The College will provide some cartridge paper and newsprint per student and some copier paper, ink, glue and masking tape to share amongst the group.
All necessary equipment will be provided for use on the course.
It is essential that you bring:
Please wear appropriate clothing/aprons for the workshop or studio, this includes stout covered footwear (no sandals or open toes).
Daily Timetable
Course teaching 11am–5.15pm
Students arrive 10.30am-11am (coffee optional)
Morning teaching 11am-1pm
Lunch break between 1pm-2pm (lunch is not included)
Afternoon teaching 2pm-5.15pm (15 minute break, 3.30pm–3.45pm)
Teaching finishes 5.15pm
Short courses are open to anyone aged 18 and over. The course fee covers tuition and materials where stated. You will need to bring all other items listed under the ‘Materials to bring’ section.
Coffee and tea are included in the course fee, but you will need to bring lunch with you to eat in the refreshments room. There are also plenty of other local venues to purchase food.
If you have any specific access needs, we will need to know about your access requirements in advance. Please tell us about your needs in confidence by emailing: [email protected] This venue has steps to the front reception, with limited access via a side gate to the ground floor. There is a small lift to higher floors or stairs.
Short course students are required to sign a safety compliance form as part of West Dean Health and Safety regulations.
Please refer to our terms & conditions below.
The information given is accurate at the time of publication. However, West Dean College reserves the right to cancel or amend courses if circumstances require.
Trained in Fine art At Nottingham Trent University, Anna has worked in arts education for over 20 years. Anna’s practice explores the material nature of thinking and “working out”, the much-maligned value of making something nice to look at, and the symbiotic relationships between learner, educator, artist, audience, art and place.
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