(Fully Online Postgraduate by Coursework Elective)

This is an advanced practical sculpture course that will teach you integrated, rigorous methods to resolve self initiated ideas for the conception, planning, fabrication, and presentation of contemporary sculpture. Studio projects will provide the catalyst and framework to develop your future creative enquiries. These activities mimic the processes artists employ to make artworks that are content rich and idiosyncratic, establishing a methodology for your future endeavours. Ordinary everyday skills, such as cutting and assembling, are required for the fabrication and installation of artworks. Materiality will be investigated using culturally encoded found objects and commonplace “stuff”.

Your art making will be informed by background research that will extend your own ideas and enhance your awareness and understanding of how and why contemporary artists often blend and quote diverse cultural practices in their artwork. Colonialism, migration, globalisation, mass media, cultural displacement, multiculturalism, travel and tourism will be examined, along with the influence of the ‘exotic’. Online group discussion, exhibitions of completed artworks and a collaborative online studio theory project to observe, analyse, interpret and critique your own and other’s artwork will create a community of scholarship and critical feedback to support your art making.

You will need access to a digital camera.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.