This major is only available to students undertaking the Bachelor of Visual Arts.
The Sculpture and Spatial Practice major enables students to develop their own artistic and research practice, engaging with leading contemporary practitioners and theoreticians in a studio-based curriculum. Students develop their practice through projects that use a wide range of approaches, including socially-engaged art, video installation, publishing, performance, digital fabrication, and traditional sculptural processes such as bronze casting, soft sculpture, and metal and wood construction. Material and conceptual methods are developed in response to students' own interests, contextualized in relation to relevant contemporary art practices and discourses. These projects address broader issues in the world today and students develop research skills to bring appropriate ideas and methods from other fields into their work. This approach foregrounds the political implications of artistic decisions and material resolutions.
School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of key practices, theories, histories, techniques and materials relevant to contemporary art practice and sculpture in particular;
- apply relevant knowledge to realize independent creative projects;
- develop and evaluate concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and through independent research;
- work independently and collaboratively in a studio environment in response to project demands; and
- apply workplace health and safety (WHS) regulations and principles within a workshop environment.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:
A maximum of 12 units of courses at 1000 level
A minimum of 12 units of courses at 3000 level
24 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
ARTV1803 Sculpture: Introduction to Conceptual Practices and Construction Methods (Metal and Fabric)
ARTV1804 Sculpture: Introduction to Temporal Practices and Construction Methods (Wood)
ARTV3033 Creative Research Practice: Developing an Independent Work Proposal
ARTV3034 Creative Research Practice: Extending and Consolidating an Independent Work Proposal
24 units from completion of courses from the following list:
ARTV2801 Socially Engaged Art Practice: Authorship, Dialogue and Community
ARTV2802 Politics of Memory: Video Installation, Sculpture, Documentary and Monuments
ARTV2810 Politics of Bodies: Sculpture, Figure Modelling, Performance and Choreography
ARTV2820 Politics of Spaces: Installation, Sculpture and Spatial Practice
ARTV2821 Posthuman Sculpture Practice with Active Materials: Bronze Casting, 3D Modelling and Bio Art
ARTV2830 Automation and Autonomy
ARTV2921 Environment Studio: field-based research and studio practice in visual arts
This major is only available to students undertaking the Bachelor of Visual Arts.
School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
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