• Offered by School of Art
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Visual Arts
  • Areas of interest Visual Arts, Creative Arts
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Nicholas Stranks
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2016
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Students build on existing skills, techniques and processes of sculptural construction and fabrication. Students develop an individual project to further explore materiality, sculptural language and spatial properties. Final works will be supported by extensive experimentation, and visual and technical diaries. Students use Studio Theory to develop critical awareness and evaluative skills for interpreting and understanding constructed sculpture within a contemporary and historical context. Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) instruction is an integral part of this course.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
  1. Competently utilise a range of skills relevant to sculptural advanced construction, in response to projects.
  2. Explore the potential of construction material/s used in sculpture projects.
  3. Investigate the inventive application of concepts and processes in sculpture construction.
  4. Engage with historical and theoretical contexts relevant to sculpture projects.

Indicative Assessment

Portfolio of studio work and visual diaries (80%) [Learning Outcomes 1-4]
Documentation and critique (10%) [Learning Outcomes 3, 4]
Studio Theory (10%) [Learning Outcomes 1-4]

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Workload

4 hours per week of lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice for 13 weeks. Students are expected to dedicate a further 6 hours to independent studio practice each teaching week of the semester. Total 130 hours.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed ARTV1801or ARTV2806 or ARTV2808. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ARTV6802.

Assumed Knowledge

Basic understanding of some construction techniques.

Minors

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $2520
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $3876
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

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First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
3776 15 Feb 2016 26 Feb 2016 31 Mar 2016 27 May 2016 In Person N/A

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