Fine Art: Sculpture

BA Fine Art: Sculpture values the importance of 'thinking through making', using practical experimentation and different critical approaches. The intention is that you will develop an understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects. You will reflect upon people's interactions with the material world through a postcolonial lens. 

What to expect

• To interrogate sculpture's status in the contemporary fine art world and its continually evolving position due to social and political factors.
• To investigate traditional and digital material practices associated with sculpture.
• All forms of contemporary sculptural methods and approaches to be encouraged .
• 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: Sculpture 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 Sculpture graduates include 4 artists represented in the Saatchi Collection's British Art in the Nineties exhibition, Turner Prize nominee Cathy de Monchaux as well as many more who are now successfully working in studio practice.

Our students have also taken placements with AB Foundry, Engineered Arts, Horniman Museum, Royal National Theatre and Tate Britain, while many others continue their practice on postgraduate programmes at the Royal College of Art, Royal Academy and the Slade.

Alumni have worked with galleries including Stephen Friedman Gallery, White Cube and the Royal Festival Hall, as well as, for artists such as Cerith Wyn Evans, Angus Fairhirst and Anthony Gormley.

Alumni

• Alexander Devereux
• Julia Parkinson
• Georgia Rodger
• Paul Schneider
• Jesse Wine

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