NTU Decorative Arts

http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/pss/course_finder/113265-1/5/ba_(hons)_decorative_arts.aspx

"I would recommend NTU because of the brilliant facilities and technicians and the creative atmosphere in the Bonington building."

 

"Why choose this course?

This degree gives you a unique opportunity to explore, develop and create with a variety of traditional and modern materials, including:

ceramics

glass

metal

paper

plastic

textiles

wood.

It is a modular degree course, designed to give you a mix of practical, theoretical and technical skills."

 

"What will I study?

As well as studio and workshop sessions, you'll learn through tutorial, seminars, lectures, and regular visits to galleries, active workshops, design practices, businesses, and museums.

Year One

• You'll get involved in studio and workshop projects, working across a wide range of materials and developing craft skills
• You will learn essential practical IT skills like computer-aided design (CAD), to develop forward through your degree.

Year Two

• You will work on specific design briefs, developing more in-depth technical and craft skills.
• The business-focused modules will develop your commercial awareness of marketing, product development, planning and communication.
• You will undertake short work experience placements, supported by tutorial staff, are designed to hone your skills.

Year Three

• You can choose a specialist area and develop your creative practice, then put together a dissertation and exhibition of your work.
• You can opt for our live trading module as an alternative to a dissertation. It's a commercially focused option that involves producing a business plan and, ultimately, launching a new product in a commercial or retail environment - for the last two years we've opened our own commercial Decorative Arts shop as part of the module
• The final-year degree show provides an important and exciting showcase for your work."

"How will I be assessed?

This is based on coursework, with the final year featuring an exhibition of work and a written project."

 

 

Joey Veltkamp

Joey makes these adorable little ghost like creatures in ceramics and has coated some with glitter.

I found them after searching through many pages of images looking for some sort of art/sculpture with glitter involved.

I really like these little sculptures, they're original and quirky, and some are very brightly coloured. They remind me a lot of the bright colours used in AMW, and Jim Lambie's record players.

http://www.i-m.co/jveltkamp/joeyveltkamp/etcetera.html 

Rachel Kaye

Rachel Kaye appears to be a painter, however, I found her through her glitter sculptures.

The two sculptures look as if they are mosaic almost with the way the glitter is shaped. I love the way that the colours contrast from each other and the glitter gives that perfect shine to it and doesn't look 3D, more like a standing flat pillar with no sides.

Her paintings are a lot different to these sculptures, as they're very abstract, the colours contrast each other and the patterns are also very unusual. 

http://www.rachelakaye.com/index.php?/works/

Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie was a large part of my inspiration to use the glitter aspect of AMW; the glitterized record player he did called "Ska's Not Dead" was one of the pieces I first looked at of his.

I like the way the glitter has picked up the details on the buttons and the way it brings it out against the white background. I'd like to try something like this on smaller objects, such as batteries or pens.

Some of his other work, such as with the brightly coloured tape, I find interesting as the colours really stand out and look interesting against the backgrounds they're put on, like the stairs and floors. They're so out of the ordinary and this is what I like about them.

Symmography

Symmography is the art of string using a piece of wood, nails, and string. 

The nails are placed in the pattern that is wanted and the string wrapped around the nails; I found it interesting as I started thinking as to whether this would work with crocheted or knitted lines, but on a larger scale.

The way this has shows the 3D I find fascinating, yet it looks quite simple as the string is just built up over each other to create the effect.
I'd like to try something like this, but with the knitted/crocheted string.

Tutorial: http://www.alinasadventuresinhomemaking.com/2012/02/a-symmography-tutorial.html

NTU Fine Art

http://www.ntu.ac.uk/apps/pss/course_finder/60788-1/5/BA_(Hons)_Fine_Art.aspx

"The course's strength for me was most definitely the tutors."

"This course gives you the opportunity to experiment across the range of Fine Art media which includes painting, drawing, casting, installation, curation, sculpture, performance, photography, film, video, sound and print. You'll then choose one or two which best suits your own practice."

"Fine Art facilities

• Glass kilns for glass work
• potter’s wheels
• a ceramic digital printer
• casting and moulding equipment
• metal workshops adapted for specialist metal usage
• woodworking workshop and equipment
• resin and plastics development equipment
• polymer 3D printer
• vinyl cutter
• hand screen printing, transfer printing, collograph printing
• black and white and colour darkrooms, enlargers and processors
• three full-size photographic studios with backgrounds and lighting
• video editing facilities."

"Recent graduates from this course have gone on to establish themselves as artists in their own right, while others find work in a range of directly related areas as curators, teachers, gallerists, animators, musicians, community artists and film-makers.

Some graduates chose to develop a ‘portfolio lifestyle’, undertaking part-time employment to help facilitate their personal artistic development and career path."

Sheffield Hallam Creative Art Practice

"This course focuses on traditional art forms and practices. You develop your art practice using traditional media.

Drawing is a central part of the course in levels one and two.

At level one, you take workshops in • sculpture • painting • printmaking • photography. You study art, history and theory to help place your practical work in a wider context. You also choose an optional module from any available in the faculty or take a foreign language.

During level two, you choose two subjects from • sculpture • painting • printmaking • photography. You choose another optional module from any available in the faculty or continue studying a foreign language.

At level three, you specialise in either • drawing • sculpture • painting • printmaking • photography. You also study a module that develops business and work-based knowledge to help you reach your goals after graduation.

Towards the end of the course, you develop a large body of work which you exhibit in a professional environment."

"This course helps you to develop a career as a professional visual artist working as a • painter • printmaker • sculptor • photographer.

Some of our previous art graduates now work in the visual arts as • curators • writers • managers • technicians • set designers • prop makers • art directors • animators."

"Normally one of the following

• 240 points from at least two GCE/VCE A levels or BTEC National qualifications including art and design or a media-related subject. AS levels and Key Skills may count towards these points."

Leeds College of Art Fine Art

"Doing a Foundation Diploma?

if you’re studying an accredited foundation diploma in art and design, you’ll need a minimum of 260 UCAS tariff points** from that plus your AS and A2 or Extended Diploma results You may add together AS/A2/Extended Diploma and Foundation Diploma tariff points in arriving at 260 points. You’ll also need a GCSE grade A*-C in English Language, English Literature or equivalent (see above)."

"The BA (Hons) in Fine Art involves you in a diverse, lively community of people experimenting, challenging, learning and engaged in the business of being an artist in the contemporary world. This studio-based programme is structured around a system which houses four specialist subject strands in Fine Art to enable you to experience a deeper acquistion and performance of skill in your favoured media."

"DESTINATION CAREERS

Graduates go into a wide variety of careers including independent art practice, community arts, curating and teaching. Some go on to further study at master’s or doctorate level."

"WHAT YOU’LL STUDY

Year One you’ll embark on a common introductory programme with a strong emphasis on drawing, an approach for which the College is renowned. This is an initial period of orientation, induction and familiarisation after which you will confirm your place within a specialist strand and join the community of practice of your choice in semester 2.

Year Two you’ll develop your work in your specialist strand where tutorials and critiques will extend your studio practice. You will enhance your professionalism through specific modules which focus on artists’ strategies and exhibition practice.

Year Three you’ll consolidate your informed and positioned practice working within the specialist studio strand, undertaking tutorials and critiques to mentor you through your final year. You will position yourself as an emerging professional artist, undertaking an agreed project in the form of a public exhibition and an extensive research project."

Magda Sayeg

Magda was one of the first people to start yarn bombing; she has worked with many famous companies like Mini Cooper, Absolut Vodka and Smart Car with her projects of crocheted or knitted yarn bombs. Some of her most famous projects were the yarn bombed bus in Mexico.
The colours she uses stand out against the normal everyday environments she puts them in, making them easily noticeable from large distances.

I'd like to play around with the colours I could use, inspired by how Magda uses colours to represent her own work.

http://www.magdasayeg.com/home.php

Juliana Santacruz Herrera

Juliana braids fabric, dyes it and uses these coloured fabric braids to fill in pot holes around Paris.
Her work I find interesting as she takes the fabric out of the textiles realm and into the sculpture. Her bright colours stand out against the plain grey road, a lot like Anthony Logan's work stands out against the environment he puts in it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39380641@N03/
http://www.designboom.com/art/juliana-santacruz-herrera-decorative-potholes/

Nike Savvas

Nike Savvas is an Australian artists whose less known here; she recently opened up a new exhibition in Leeds art gallery called "Liberty And Anarchy".
In this exhibition she uses ribbons and coloured string to create her sculptures that inhabit the room as well as large wooden frames.

The way she uses the string to create geometric inspires me to try something like this, but with a line of crochet to act as string, or even a line of knitting. I think it would have to be on a bigger scale than the sculpture, but the frame would be the main thing to create, maybe this could be done out of knitted wool instead of wood.

http://www.leedsstudent.org/2013-01-25/ls2/arts/art-liberty-and-anarchy

Megan Geckler

Megan Geckler uses flagging tape to create sculptures based around already existing architecture; I love the way she uses flagging tape and would love to try something like this with string, or maybe even a crocheted line. 

The bright rainbow colours really come out against the white, and in a way it reminds me of the way that AMW comes out against the normal miss world pageants. 

http://www.megangeckler.com/artwork.htm

Candace Bahouth

Candace uses pieces of china and glass to create mosaic shoes; I really like the way she's combined a modern object with the old style mosaic technique.
The broken mirror shoe are what interested me most as they link in with the way Logan uses the material for his crowns in AMW.

Though the broken china shoe is different, I took an interest to that as it has colour and the colour compliments the way Logan and the contestants use bright colours within the contest.

http://www.mosaicbahouth.com/Mosaic_shoes_boots_gallery.html