Fine Art: Drawing

BA Fine Art: Drawing will encourage you to develop your understanding of drawing as not necessarily limited to marks on paper. It will look at how drawing is interpreted virtually, spatially and across disciplines. 

What to expect

• To use drawing as an end in itself, but also for exploring other modes of art practice like film, installation, performance and sculpture. 
• To be introduced to key terms that have defined drawing and understand the frameworks in which they might hold multiple meanings.
• To look at how drawing is used in disciplines outside art. For example, medicine, architecture and dance choreography. 
• To study the practice of fine art, its history, culture and contemporary position.  
• To make work and develop an ethical practice. 
• To express and explore your artistic, social and personal interests informed by focussed research.  
• To discuss your work through tutorials, seminars, group and cross-course crits.  
• Methods and materials workshops and demonstrations by artists and technicians.
• Opportunities to gain knowledge and experience of collaborative working and socially engaged art practice.  
• A lecture programme that gives you a deeper understanding of contemporary fine art practice. It will widen your critical, theoretical, historical knowledge. This is for all Camberwell undergraduate students studying Drawing, Painting, Photography, Sculpture and Computational Arts.  
• To choose between a final year dissertation, performance, practical work placement or live project.  
• To take part in external projects with students from across Camberwell's BA Fine Art programme. 
• Course specific lectures, seminars and field trips.  
• To have access to printmaking, photography, film, moving image, digital, plastic, ceramics, wood and metalwork. This enables our students to think of art practices in its' most expanded form and its relationship to other art forms. View the Camberwell facilities.

Work experience and opportunities

All our students have the opportunity and are supported in exhibiting their work to an external audience. During the second year all our students can take part in a wide variety of seminars and workshops hosted by a variety of external arts organisations.

Students will have the opportunity to take part in the college's international exchange scheme to study abroad. Recent BA Fine Art students have spent part of their study with partner institutions in Leipzig, Madrid, Marseille, Milan, New York and Tokyo.

In the third year all students, can if they wish, undertake a work placement, instead of a written dissertation or practical live project. Students have worked alongside well-established artists, such as Richard Wentworth or David Batchelor. Others have worked within educational or curatorial institutions, such as Tate, Chisenhale Gallery, or within a specialist area such as a foundry.

Mode of study

BA Fine Art: Drawing is offered in full-time mode. It is divided into 3 stages over 3 academic years. Each stage consists of 30 teaching weeks. You will be expected to commit an average of 40 hours per week to your course, including teaching hours and independent study.

BA Fine Art Drawing graduates have had success working as part of collectives, showing in gallery and museum exhibitions and gaining prestigious residencies in places such as Frieze Art Fair, Venice Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, Skowhegan and Kolla Festival Luxembourg.

Alumni

• Izat Arif - Artist and founding member of the Malaysian Artist Intention Experiment (MAIX)
• Kurt Buckley - Artist
• Adam Farah - artist and South London Gallery postgraduate Artist-in-Residence
• John Hill - Artist, academic and member of Lucky pdf
• Sandra Lane - Artist
• Renee Odjidja - Swarovski Foundation Curator: Youth Programme, Whitechapel Gallery
• Jenny N. R. Smith - Artist studying a postgraduate course in medical art with the Medical Artists' Education Trust
• Theo Turpin - Artist
• Mary Vettise - Artist

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