Presentation art foundation

ART FOUNDATION

AT CIRENCESTER COLLEGE

WHY CIRENCESTER?

OTHER THAN THE FACT IT WILL BE…

SMALL GROUPS

Great facilities: for 3D,Textiles, Printmaking, Photography, Fine Art.

Friendly, well qualified team

Access to exciting professional guest speakersExcellent opportunities for trips and visits to Bristol, London, Oxford, Birmingham and Abroad!

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY DEGREE SHOW TRIP

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

There will be 3 stages:

Exploratory – experimental phase, exploring a broad range of disciplines and theory including: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, graphics, illustration, photography, textiles, professional development and contextual understanding

Pathway – Focused projects that develop skills in your selected disciplines.

And Consolidation – Final Major Project, self negotiated brief in your specialist area.

THERE WILL BE SHORT THEMATIC PROJECTSLIKE: ‘VESSEL’, ‘BIG AND SMALL’, ‘SPECTRUM’ & TO GET YOU STARTED… ’ON YOUR MARKS’…

ON YOUR MARKS 

Assignment description

PracticalFill the sketchbook provided (and anything else you might want to) with any kind of marks. These can be made directly by you, using whatever means; or they could be found and recorded by you.

There will be prizes for:

1. The most beguiling mark 2. The oldest mark. 3. The most ephemeral.4. The most esoteric.

This exercise should be fun, exciting, challenging, irritating, engaging, frustrating, stretching, innovating, invigorating, messy, clean, spikey, smooth, or whatever you want it to be.

You can’t do it wrong – but you can do it well.

TheoryResearch the work of 2 artists whose mark making forms a fundamental part of their practice. Consider the context of the work and discuss individual pieces to illustrate your findings.

There will be lots of theoretical research and discussion at a more advanced level.

PresentationYou will present all of this work in a group critique on your first day in September at 9am in AD08 to Lizzie Weir & Siobain Drury.

You will participate regularly in group critiques

AssessmentThe work produced over the summer will form the basis for your first project that will cover elements of Unit 1:Researching, Recording & Responding in Art & Design and Unit 2.Media Experimentation in Art & Design.

AND WHO ARE MY INFLUENCES?

TAPIES

TAPIES

CY TWOMBLY

CY TWOMBLY

REBECCA HORN

REBECCA HORN

WHERE NEXT?

Most students will apply for an undergraduate degree course in an arts discipline this could be:

Fine art Textiles Fashion Photography Architecture

Arts Management Arts Restoration Visual Communication

Graphic Design Design Crafts Product Design Jewellery

Black Smithing Arts Curation Events Management

Theatre/Prop Design Fashion Promotion Advertising

3D design Interior architecture Illustration

HOW DO I APPLY?Visit Cirencester’s College website and search for Art Foundation Diploma

www.cirencester.ac.uk Apply online

On application there will be an informal interview with your portfolio

For Art news at Cirencester follow:

http://cirencollegeart.tumblr.com/

For more details:

Anita Pring – Arts Faculty Administrator

Anita.Pring@cirencester.ac.uk

Siobain Drury - Course Leader Art Foundation

Siobain.Drury@cirencester.ac.uk

Any Questions?