Handbook

This specialist course teaches professional studio management and vocational strategies in the Sculpture Performance & Installation Studio. You learn how to effectively respond to a public art commission, identify the Visual Arts research field in which your art practice is located in preparation for Honours, and produce self initiated artworks for formal public exhibition, including the documentation of ephemeral works. This project work  prepares you for a vocation in the Visual Arts industry. You will devise a hypothetical public art commission, do the fieldwork of an appropriately selected site, plan and produce a proposal for formal submission to an acting commissioning panel.

This enquiry deepens your understanding of where your practice is located in the fields of research associated with contemporary art practice, a key aspect of studio research in Honours. Self initiated artworks are produced in consultation with your lecturer, including site specific works, environmental works, at the Sculpture Camp, which is associated with the Faculty of Art & Design's Environmental Research Initiative for Art (ERIA), located in SPI.

You will also focus on accurate documentation as a vital skill for exhibiting representations of your ephemeral artworks. Your artworks will be formally exhibited with attention to conventions surrounding exhibitions, such as writing an artist's statement of intent for a catalogue. On-going feedback, analysis and assessment of works, your leadership and contributions to the community of scholarship and creativity in SPI contributes the process of induction into a vocation in Fine Arts.