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Introduction to Printmaking Processes (FINA20033)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
Contact information
Summer Term
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
Semester 1
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
| Availability(Quotas apply) | Summer Term February Semester 1 July Semester 2 |
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This subject will require either partial or full attendance in person over the winter intensives period. For more information please check the LMS.
This subject will introduce students to the unique possibilities inherent in printmaking processes, with a technical focus on monotype, relief and intaglio techniques. Alongside this workshop focus, students will be introduced to the key historical moments in the evolution of printmaking through an introductory lecture, which encompasses the fundamental technological innovations that have impacted upon printmaking, as well as the major terms of reference that will allow students to engage with printmaking terminology within a workshop environment.
Within the workshop, students will be encouraged to explore their own work and utilise a selection of techniques by engaging with ideas of repetition, difference, and variation. This subject is designed to explore printmaking processes and technology as a vehicle for imaging ideas and image production, as well as to motivate and involve students in analytical thinking about visual perception. It also includes an induction into the Printmaking workshop, with an emphasis on Occupational Health & Safety.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- comprehend and apply fundamental skills and techniques and gain knowledge and understanding of a range of methods and materials to enable confidence in exploring and experimenting with a variety of working processes within printmaking;
- confidently navigate a professional printmaking workshop and motivate students to comfortably create visual outcomes within this environment;
- establish foundations for a practical understanding and application of sound occupational health and safety practices;
- exhibit evidence of skill development pictorially, technically and conceptually as a means of independent image making.
Generic skills
At the completion of the subject students should be able to:
- display an awareness of the graphic possibilities of a variety of concepts, materials and practices;
- exhibit evidence of skill development both pictorially and technically as a means of independent image making;
- demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;
- demonstrate practical skills in respect of critical analysis and problem solving;
- demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary art, cultural developments and new ideas.
Last updated: 20 November 2024