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Alternatively, email Annie@rhagallery.ie with three images of your work, a current CV and a brief cover letter, with the course title in the subject line.
Application deadline for all accredited modules: 20th November at 4 pm.
This module is structured in three blocks and will cover ink and water based media, drawing, animation and research through collaging sources.
In Block 1, Lauren Conway will lead a set of workshops that look at building a repertoire of techniques. The students will engage in how mark-making and technique can build meaning. We will be thinking about seemingly simple acts of making, such as how a sharp line can react with an amorphous pool. We will consider how figuration can slide into abstraction and the balance that can be achieved between the two. By developing hands-on skills and research techniques, we will also think about how to use found imagery in a considered and ethical way
In Block 2 led by John Beattie, the student will learn how to create a stop-motion animation by combining techniques with drawing and lens-based media. This block will enable students to acquire the skills and knowledge to produce a one-minute moving-image artwork. The cohort will be guided through practical workflows with still (photography) and moving-image (video), in combination with a drawing practice. A series of short lectures titled Drawing Through the Lens is programmed to enhance the students’ experience of technical and conceptual methods of making stop-motion moving-image artworks. To enrich the students’ learning and to encourage a constructive environment, practical studio-based demonstrations and technical workshops will be conducted each week. Students will take part in group work and individual project-specific tasks, and will develop a journal to document and reflect on work and ideas generated throughout the module.
Block 3 will place emphasis on the learner developing initial concept that complements their studio practice enabling them to self-direct their learning according to the needs of their individual project, while also enhancing their awareness of the techniques, tools and application of moving image stop−motion, Animatic and cell animation processes. The workshops will be led through a combination of in-person and blended learning. Block 3, led by David Eager Maher, will be based on research through practice. Students will be introduced to methodologies that encourage the making of meaning and ways and means to expand the personal and integrate it with contemporary visual culture while also developing a cathartic pictorial idiom.
This course is an accredited module – worth 5 Credits.
Image credit: Lauren Conway, Portrait of my brother: Corleck Head, ink on paper, 42xm x 30cm, 2023.
TU DUBLIN ACCREDITATION
The completion of all 10 modules is awarded with a 60-credit Diploma in Painting and Drawing, Technological University Dublin, with an NQF Level 8. There are two exit awards at 30 credits, which are awarded a 30-credit certificate at level 8.
Exit awards are –
Diploma in Painting And Drawing 60 ECTS
Certificate in Drawing 30 ECTS
Certificate In Painting 30 ECTS
Students can complete all modules over the course of two academic years, or complete separate modules over the course of several years. All modules will be subject to the quality assurance and exam regulations of TU Dublin.
Please note that students are NOT required to complete Term 1 courses before applying for Term 2 courses.
*All course fees are non-refundable.