PART TWO OF THE FOUR-YEAR ARTS PROGRAMME CONSISTS OF STUDIO-BASED PROGRAMMES
The studio-based programmes are an opportunity for students to immerse themselves in their own practice, but also to meet the challenge of different approaches to art, media, and materials. Students will work independently and test their own expression and principles through dialogue with experienced tutors attached to one of the studios.
Students will have access to their own studio space.
Find out more about each of the studio-based programmes and teaching methods:
Department G
Ceramics
Printmaking
Hybrid
DEPARTMENT G – BY VISUAL ARTIST, CLAUS HAXHOLM
At Department G, we aim to create a studio environment with an open framework and an up-to-date, relevant platform for working with visual art. Students will be given an unbiased opportunity to work independently regardless of artistic category.
The teaching is centred on painting. Insight and understanding of the language of visual art will emerge from dialogues on the work practice of each student.
Although the overall framework is an open one, students are expected to adopt a communal approach necessary to ensure a positive work environment. A significant aspect of my philosophy is that the learning process is enhanced by an active interpersonal atmosphere. Students are expected, therefore, to be actively involved in the school as well as the technical discussions.
A variety of materials and media are used to give each student an opportunity to evolve their unique artistic expression. Emphasis will be on acquiring an understanding of colour and composition and on gaining insight into the tradition of painting. Students will use drawing, photography, and video besides working with Indian ink, spray paint, oils, and acrylic paint. Moreover, Department G attempts to include opportunities for artistic work other than painting. Students will visit art exhibitions, discuss works, and talk about art.
Today the practice of visual art is extremely varied and much use is therefore made of visiting tutors and introductory talks preceding gallery and museum visits. Further, students will gain an understanding of international and national art as well as contemporary trends. There will be assignments and themes and a joint project in connection with the exhibition of student works.
CERAMICS – BY VINNI FREDERIKSEN & LISE SEIER PETERSEN, CERAMICISTS
During this programme, the various types of clay and a broad view of artistic modes of expression are introduced. Through these processes and disciplines, individual students are given the best possible opportunity to identify and develop their own ceramic expression. We alternate between free and set assignments and between individual and joint projects. Talks on art history, field trips, and possibly a study trip are part of the programme. Each semester finishes with an exhibition of own projects.
We engage established artists as guest lecturers, arrange dialogues with professionals outside the Academy and set up interdisciplinary workshops to give students a good window of opportunity to sample an active life as an artist/craftsperson after completing their education.
The ceramics department provides plenty of opportunity for students to work independently and to focus on personal expression. This is supported by, for example, individual tutorials, reviews and critical appraisals of pupils’ own projects. Tutorials take their point of departure in the practice of individual students and include subjects such as mode of expression, art in public spaces/embellishment, sketching, composing individual glazes, and firing methods.
PRINTMAKING – BY PERNILLE ANDERSEN, PRINTMAKER AND VISUAL ARTIST
The area of printmaking covers a broad field. The students will gain knowledge of classical techniques as etching, woodcut and dry point as well as more modern types of methods as digital editing and printing. Relevant theory and art history is introduced in order to equip the students with an understanding of the history and tradition concerning printmaking skills and craft. This understanding is furthermore utilised in giving the students awareness and insight in how they can use the different methods accordingly, in order to define and develop their own practise.
In the printmaking programme, we are, among others, working with intaglio and relief. In intaglio the techniques drypoint (stegætstning og fladeætsning) are taught and in relief printing you will be introduced to wood and linocut and monotyping. You will also be introduced to photographic techniques and experimental approaches where we use found ready-mades like rubbish and cardboard as printing media to explore printmaking’s relation to tradition as well as contemporary context within the art making today.
An important aspect of the program is that the workshop facilities is functioning by all student working as group and engaging in taking responsibility for the running of it. You will furthermore receive tutorials based on your individual needs. Assignments within the particular technics will be presented in combination with more wide-ranging and challenging assignments that serve to develop your artistic expression and area of interest.
HYBRID – BY LENE DESMENTIK AND SVEND-ALLAN SØRENSEN, VISUAL ARTISTS
Hybrid is the department of form, plane, concept, and context. In this department, the work sets the framework. In one sense, this framework should have a content and, in another, its confines should be ruptured. As a visual artist, you need to look beyond the frame in order to see the work – be it a song, a plastic bag from a supermarket, a dialogue, etc.
Teaching at Hybrid is borne by the practice of the individual students – defining it, clarifying it, and developing it. A precondition for a positive artistic development is unhindered dialogue. For this reason, the teaching is to a great extent based on reflection and dialogue with opportunities for immersion and students’ own experiments.
The teaching involves, for example, work analyses, studies of especially recent art history, visits to exhibitions, and practical work. At Hybrid, no specific methods nor materials are given special priority. Only those that bring individual projects to their desired conclusions.
From time to time, there will be a thematic programme, but no set assignments to be completed beside this basic question: why and how do you practice art?
