Online Course

This is a practical, online sculpture course that will introduce you to ways of making contemporary sculpture and installation art through online projects. The two studio projects are designed to help you develop your own future creative enquiries as the activities mimic the processes artists employ to make artworks that are content rich and idiosyncratic. Ordinary skills, such as cutting, assembling, sanding and gluing, painting, sewing, stapling and snap shot photography are required for everyday methods of construction and recording. Materiality will be investigated using culturally encoded found objects and commonplace 'stuff'.

Your art making will be informed by studio theory components that will enhance your awareness and understanding of how and why contemporary artists often blend and quote diverse cultural practices in their artwork. Online group discussions and a collaborative online studio theory project will create a community of scholarship and critical feedback to support your art making.

The interdisciplinary nature of contemporary sculptural practice will be explored in an installation project, with an invitation to experience a diversity of sculptural methodologies. Interdisciplinary approaches will develop from an initial project that creatively investigates the more familiar, object based sculpture. You will need access to a digital camera.

NOTE: This course is conducted via the Omnium system (omnium.edu.au). Students will receive log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course. For international students: This 3 unit of credit (UOC) online course can only be undertaken in addition to the minimum 18 UOC face-to-face requirement per session.