Course Title: Ceramics Advanced Studio 3B2

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Ceramics Advanced Studio 3B2

Credit Points: 12


Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

VART2955

Hong Kong Arts Centre

Undergraduate

340H Art

Face-to-Face

Offsh 3 09,
Offsh 3 11,
Offsh3 12

Course Coordinator: Sally Cleary

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3858

Course Coordinator Email:sally.cleary@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 4.1.1

Course Coordinator Availability: By Appointment only


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Pre-Requisite:
Ceramics Advanced Studio 3A1
Ceramics Advanced Studio 3A2

Co-Requisite:
Ceramics Advanced Studio 3B1


Course Description

This course is focused on developing personalised approaches to contemporary ceramics within a Fine Art context. It offers students an opportunity to work with a broad range of ceramic decorative processes.

The course aims to:
• Extend and develop the student’s capacity to address conceptual, perceptual, formal and aesthetic concerns as related to ceramics
• Refine the student’s materials skills base in a range of ceramic processes and techniques as relevant to the development of a personal aesthetic
• Encourage and support student’s greater self-reliance in undertaking and initiating independent research as an integral part of the student’s professional and artistic development.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course is studio based. It involves a combination of structured research projects and individual work proposals initiated with staff consultation. The learning in this course simulates the work experience of a practicing artist where art works are self initiated, directed and finalized within the artists’ studio. Through self –directed projects you will be encouraged to develop visual ways of knowing, thinking and doing. You will work with industry professionals engaging in real problem solving experiences and will consider issues of professional practice, health and safety and a variety of methods of production.

There are four main areas of focus which will be addressed on an ongoing basis throughout this course:
1. Research skill development, expanding options for research
2. Exploration of contemporary concepts and material investigation, including development and initiation of a work proposal
3. Professional Practice skills, including exhibition preparation and folio documentation
4. Critical Analysis skill development, including peer review.


At the successful conclusion of this subject you should:

• Demonstrate self-reliance, self-discipline and self-motivation in researching, organising and executing a practical program of work that extends the development of a personal aesthetic
• Be able to initiate and pursue studies in directions which inform and further individual and professional growth and catalyse invention, innovation and refinement of personal work
• Show a qualitative response to ideas and phenomena, materials and processes in the pursuit of an emerging personal aesthetic and show an ability to engage in research as an integral part of one’s professionalism


Overview of Learning Activities

Learning will take place through an approved individual program of studio work, planned by the student in consultation with the class lecturer at the beginning of the semester. Students will be expected to develop a studio work proposal which will outline their objectives and methods for organising a practical program of work. Ceramics Advanced Studio 3A1 & 3B2 have been designed as complimentary pracitices, therefore their approved work proposals will be recognized across both subject areas.

A program of individual tutorials and group critiques will be scheduled to review progress and to develop the capacity for aesthetic judgement and rigorous self analysis. You will be required to maintain the practice of using sketchbooks and journals/visual diaries as a means of research and documentation and must cultivate an awareness of traditional and contemporary practice by regular participation in visits to public and commercial galleries, guest lectures, workshops, scheduled excursions and appropriate use of library facilities


Overview of Learning Resources

Blandino, Betty, Coiled Pottery, Roseville East, NSW: Craftsman House, 1997.
Blandino, Betty, The Figure in Fired Clay, Woodstock, NY., Overlook Press, 2002.
Carnegie, Daphne, Tin-Glazed Earthenware, A & C Black, London, 1995
Clark, Garth, American Potters, The Work of 20 Modern Masters, New York, NY., Watson Guptil, 1981.
Constant, Christine, Ogden, Steve, Potter’s Palette, Radnor Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, 1996.
Currie, Ian, Stoneware Glazes, Queensland, Bootstrap Press, 2000.
Daly, Greg, Glazes and Glazing Techniques,
De Boos, Janet, Handbook for Australian Potters, Sydney, Methuen, 1978.
Hopper, Robin, The Ceramic Spectrum, Chilton Book Company, Pennsylvania, 1984.
Lynn, Martha Drexler, The Clay Art of Adrian Saxe, Thames and Hudson, London 1994.
Pegrum, Brenda, Painted Ceramics, Colour and Imagery on Clay, Crowood Press, Wiltshire, 1999.
Perry, Barbara, (ed.), American Ceramics, the collection of the Everson Museum of Art
Peters, Lynn, Surface Decoration for Low-Fire Ceramics, Capricorn Link, NWS., 1999.
Peterson, Susan, Jun Kaneko, Calmann and King, London, 2001
Peterson, Susan, The Craft and Art of Clay, Laurence King Publishing, London, 1995.
Rawson, Phillip, Ceramics, London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971
Rawson, Phillip, Sculpture, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1997.
Wood, Nigel, Oriental Glazes, Sydney, Craftsman House, 1999.
Rawson, Phillip, Ceramics
A generalist and accessible text, which takes an overview of ceramics in history, and our relationship to the traditions of fucntional ceramics.
Dormer, Peter, Trends and Traditions

JOURNALS
Pottery in Australia,
Turramurra, N.S.W : Potters’ Society of Australia, 1962-
Ceramics Art and Perception Sydney, Australia : Ceramics: Art and Perception, Pty. Ltd., 1990-
Ceramics Monthly Columbus, Ohio, etc., Professional Publications
Crafts London : Crafts Council, 1973- 
Studio Potter Goffstown, N.H. : Daniel Clark Foundation, 1972.
American Craft New York : American Craft Council, 1979- (American Craft Council, Membership, 22 W. 55 St., New York, N.Y. 10019)


Overview of Assessment

A panel of staff from the course area will conduct assessment. The assessment will be reviewed and moderated by the course co-ordinator in collaboration with another course co-ordinator or program director.

Assessement Criteria: Presentation of a resolved body of work as per studio proposal and prescribed assessment criteria:100%

High Distinction (HD) 80 - 100%
Distinction (D) 70 - 79%
Credit (C) 60 - 69%
Pass (P) 50 - 59%
Fail (N) 0 - 49%