Working as an Artist Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course will invite you to explore the possibilities and potential of what the artist's studio can be, where art can be made and how art can be produced without a traditional studio space.
The course will help students to explore how artworks can be made in a variety of situations, at home, in the gallery/museum, or, out in the world. Through a combination of discussion sessions, gallery visits and practical exercises, you will explore concept generation, material sourcing, responding to site-specific briefs, dealing with change and evaluating your practice. These exercises will help you construct a toolkit of techniques and devices to assist you in your future endeavours as an artist, student or practitioner.
Who this course is for
This course is designed for artists who have left art college/university/work and are interested in the practicalities of being an artist, and artists who are interested in exploring the possibilities of making work in a variety of locations, Artists working without a dedicated 'studio space', or, those who are navigating how to maintain an art practice alongside a full-time job or other commitments. This is an intermediate level course where students will benefit from prior experience, but beginners are welcome who are interested in learning how to start and maintain an art practice, and how to generate ideas and realise projects using the resources available to them.
Key information
Topics covered
- Contemporary art
- Research
- Concept generation
- Sourcing materials/managing resources
- What/where is the studio?
- How to talk about your work
Learning outcomes
- Have learnt to use immediately available materials to generate artworks and ideas for future conceptual projects
- Evaluated the traditional studio setting and discovered what or where the studio could be for their individual situation/practice
- Have experimented with concept generation techniques in relation to responding to site-specific briefs and thinking through making
- Have explored how to use galleries and museums as a resource for making artworks
- Developed techniques to navigate change in their practice
- Evaluated their practice with their own vocabulary and in relation to Contemporary Art discourse
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Smartphone / camera (if possible)
- Laptop / tablet (if possible)
- Collage materials (newspapers / magazines / photographs / images of interest)
- Sketchbook / notebook
- Pens / pencils
Tutor
Joe Richardson
Joe Richardson is a Cheltenham born multi-disciplinary artist working between painting, video, collage, audio and sculpture.
Richardson's works operate in the space between the performance of an action and its anticipated outcome, for example, the smashing of a glass, a character falling in a canal, a breakthrough in communication.
His works perform as double acts, facades, and stages 'that deconstruct everyday scenarios through repetition to the point of absurdity to produce purgatorial experiences of waiting, spaces of absurd nothingness, and the opportunity to navigate uncertainty'.
His recent projects include a solo exhibition at Cine-Window, Winsford, a duo show at FIVE YEARS, 'Pesaro Voeslauer' and a group show at London Lighthouse Gallery. Richardson also has a permanent display of video works available to view in the lobby of Universal Music, 4 Pancras Square (next to CSM).
Alongside his professional art practice, Richardson is a freelance tutor at UAL Short Courses and City Lit, teaching painting, drawing, and collage.
https://www.joerichardson.net/
https://www.cheltenhammuseum.org.uk/event/artists-in-their-residence-joe-richardson/
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