- City Lit fine art: year 1Course start date: Tue 17 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Year 1 of the City Lit Fine Art course will enable you to refine and build upon your previous experience in Fine Art by exploring approaches to drawing, painting, sculpture, print, digital media and contextual studies, across a series of structured projects in studio and online sessions. As part of a small cohort of like-minded students you will be taught by experienced tutors who are also practicing artists in a range different media.
The course will enable you to develop an overview of media processes relevant to current art practice, introduce ideas and debate relevant to contemporary art, and help you identify your own personal creative responses. Group discussions and tutorials will support the development of your thinking and help you adopt an independent and open-minded approach to your own work. This course can be taken for personal creative development, to prepare you for application to undergraduate or postgraduate Fine Art courses, or to serve as an alternative to the conventional degree route.
Some basic materials will be provided, and you will need to supplement these with specific items; a list is provided in the CLFA course handbook. 10am – 12pm online Zoom sessions on alternate Mondays (15 in total)
10am – 5pm in City Lit studios. On alternate Tuesdays (16 in total)
6pm – 9pm in City Lit digital media suite. On 4 or 5 alternate Tuesday evenings per term (12 in total).
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £2,179.00 Senior fee £1,743.00 Concession £1,525.00 - Advanced graphic designCourse start date: Mon 7 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
This course will help you improve your skills in graphic design and visual communications in their broadest sense, for delivery or publication in print and online, working with text, image, layout, medium and message across a range of physical and digital media and formats.
It is ideal for anyone who has already completed our City Lit graphics course, and for anyone wishing to build a more extensive and professional portfolio of graphics work, whilst developing a deeper understanding of the connection between text, image, message and media.
Confirmed industry specialist guests: Lydia Thornley, Designer, Creative Director and Reportage Illustrator and award winning film producer/director Mark Craig, maker of the film “The Last Man On The Moon”.Full fee £2,399.00 Senior fee £1,919.00 Concession £1,679.00 - Contemporary practice: personal projectCourse start date: Tue 10 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
This advanced course in contemporary creative practice will support you in developing a personal project through research, experimentation, development and exhibition in a supportive studio environment. The course is facilitated by practising artists, theorists and curators.
This course requires an application prior to enrolment. Please contact Visual Arts for more information.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £2,179.00 Senior fee £1,743.00 Concession £1,525.00 - Advanced children's book illustration: professional practiceCourse start date: Tue 10 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Tim Ellis, Zehra Hicks, Dee ShulmanInterested in a career in Children’s Book Illustration, or advancing your practice to the next level? With the guidance and support of your tutors, you will have the opportunity to engage with experienced industry professionals, and develop your practice and personal visual vocabulary to a professional standard.
Confirmed visitors/speakers include:
- Rachel Petty, author/illustrator agent at the Blair Partnership, former editorial director Macmillan Children's Books,
- Margaret Hope, art director, Welbeck Publishing Group
- Arabella Stein, Managing Director, Bright Agency.Full fee £2,449.00 Senior fee £1,959.00 Concession £1,714.00 - Extended drawing for artists and makersCourse start date: Wed 11 Oct 2023 (and 3 other dates)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Annie Attridge, Clare Barton-Harvey, Ruth Brison, Tony Hull, Claire Hynds, Monika Kita, Ute Kreyman, Mario Lautier Vella, Faith Vincent, susan kentonA multi-disciplinary course that will help broaden your skills and experience. Record, imagine, visualise, transform, narrate and develop through a series of practical projects. This exciting course is designed to help you place drawing at the centre of your chosen artistic discipline.
This course requires a pre-enrolment application. Please click 'Start Assessment' on the right hand side of this page to start your application. EDAM Handbook
EDAM Archive.Full fee £1,359.00 Senior fee £1,087.00 Concession £951.00 - Advanced printmaking: practice and discourseCourse start date: Sat 7 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Ina Baumeister, Rolina Elsje Blok, Thomas Gosebruch, David Holah, Claire HyndsThis year-long advanced course is aimed at artist-printmakers who wish to develop a sustainable personal practice through the medium of print. With the support of expert tutors, you will be guided through experimental, practice-based research and developmental tasks that challenge your preconceptions of print media including etching, screen-printing, lithography and relief. You will eventually focus on a longer projects that encourage both a personal enquiry and the development of an individual methodology. The course involves theoretical, contextual and practical components. Student testimony:
“This course has been absolutely brilliant! It’s not only taught me printmaking methods but also about the artistic process. I’ve learnt so much, it’s really been very transformative!” El Morrison (2023)
“The course has pushed my boundaries. It has encouraged me to try new things within print and to think about the context and concepts I am trying to deliver” Declan Hoare (2023)
“I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I met many wonderful talented artists. It has made me think about my own practice; how can I change it, modify it, make it more exciting. The tutors are absolutely amazing! They are full of knowledge, encouragement, and support. It was a great, great experience.” Areej Abdi (2023).
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £1,849.00 Senior fee £1,479.00 Concession £1,294.00 - Advanced printmaking: experimentation and developmentCourse start date: Thu 12 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
This year-long advanced course is aimed at artists who wish to expand their print-based practice through exploring the integration of printmaking with a range of other media and processes. It includes: individual and collaborative practice; the creation of a body of work in a range of print- and print-related media; the production of a print publication, and a public exhibition of work. As you acquire advanced skills you will be encouraged to explore your own ideas and themes developing a sustainable art practice that is both meaningful to you and relevant to the contemporary art world.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £1,849.00 Senior fee £1,479.00 Concession £1,294.00 - Advanced figure and portraitCourse start date: Fri 13 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Paul Dixon, Desmond Haughton, Brian Sayers, Kim Scouller, Benjamin Senior, Andrea VoiseyThe human form offers inexhaustible potential for communication and expression of ideas; this is an exciting advanced course for those with experience of working with the figure and/or portrait who would like the challenge of exploring new perspectives on the figurative tradition in drawing, painting and mixed media.Full fee £2,499.00 Senior fee £1,999.00 Concession £1,749.00 - City Lit fine art: year 2Course start date: Mon 9 Oct 2023 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Blended (learn both online and in-person)
Tutors: Kath Castillo, Amanda Knight, Steven ScottYear 2 of the City Lit Fine Art course enables you to consolidate and focus the various experiences and ideas you will have gained in year 1. (Direct entry to year 2 is also possible, via interview, if you have an appropriate level of prior experience.) You will adopt simple research methods to reflect upon, identify and develop a personal creative project on a more individual, self-motivated route. This will result in the development of a cohesive body of new work that reflects your own interests. You will have group critiques, one-to-one tutorials and all day studio production sessions that allow you to explore and refine your creative skills, and seminars and presentations in which you will engage with new ideas and contexts; all delivered by experienced, practicing artists. Some basic materials are included.
You will have the opportunity to help organise and present some of your recent work in a group exhibition, via negotiation and with the support of your tutors. 2 – 4pm online Zoom sessions on alternate Mondays (15 in total)
10am – 5pm in City Lit studios. On alternate Tuesdays (16 in total)
6pm – 9pm in City Lit digital media suite. On 4 or 5 alternate Tuesday evenings per term (12 in total.
This course will be delivered online and in person. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £2,179.00 Senior fee £1,743.00 Concession £1,525.00 - Art in theory: What is creativity?Course start date: Thu 31 Oct 2024
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ian TucknottThis critical studies course for developing artists and makers explores the concept of creativity and what it means to be an artist, drawing on a range of cultural theories and work by creative practitioners to help inspire and enhance creative and critical thinking.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £132.00 - Art and Ideas: Time and MemoryCourse start date: Wed 8 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Charles ChambersThis course if for students and creative practitioners interested in memory as a creative and conceptual theme. Explore and discuss ideas, theories and work by significant artists and writers to enhance and inspire the development of creative work.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - Art in theory: politics and societyCourse start date: Thu 9 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Charles ChambersCritical thinking course for creative practitioners exploring culture, society and politics drawing on a range of cultural theories and work by significant artists and designers to enhance and inspire creative thinking and practical work.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information.Full fee £189.00 Senior fee £151.00 Concession £132.00 - Art and Ideas: Identity and the selfCourse start date: Thu 9 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Online
Tutors: Ian TucknottThis course is for students and creative practitioners interested in identity as a creative and conceptual theme. Explore and discuss ideas, theories and work by significant artists and writers to enhance and inspire the development of creative work.
This course will be delivered online. See the ‘What is the course about?’ section in course details for more information. - The design briefCourse start date: Tue 4 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrew McCartenThis workshop provides a forum for exploring and discussing the process (and sometimes challenges) of working with clients over a commercial design brief or commission. While some design briefs are relatively straightforward, and perhaps require a simple rendering of the client's vision, at other times the client can be unsure of what they actually want, and it can be a frustrating, uncertain and time-consuming process for the designer to identify and produce a solution to what is, sometimes, a poorly-defined question. Referring to real-life examples and case-studies, this workshop will take learners through the process of making a pitch, deconstructing a brief to be certain of what the client wants and needs (and whether these are same thing), presenting proposals, and working within time, resource and financial constraints. These are invaluable skills for the design professional that are equally applicable, for the student, to project briefs and coursework.
For this workshop, you will need to have access to A3 or A4 plain paper, and a range of coloured marker pens, as well as a notebook. Basic materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring and use your own as well.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00 - Is meaning inevitable? Intention, action and interpretationCourse start date: Fri 7 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Lily MarkiewiczDoes every creative act have meaning? Is there a statement – conscious or unconscious – inherent in everything we do as artists? Should we interpret or analyse what we see, what we do, what we’ve done? In this one-day workshop, we will examine a range of specific works, considering the question of whether and how meaning has been embedded (intentionally or otherwise) and can be identified and interpreted. This will, to some degree, touch on how individuals and societies make and ascribe meaning, perhaps as an attempt to process and come to terms with, for example, otherwise seemingly arbitrary events like a natural catastrophe or suffering. We will discuss and workshop these themes in the larger group, draw on examples presented, and the experiences of the members in the group. Other questions that may be considered include: discerning meaning as an attempt to find order in chaos, and whether or what we might lose by attempting to impose meaning, by attempting to explain within the confines of critical analysis, that which may, in fact, be critical to the character or intention of a work of art.Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £79.00
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