Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)

 
 
 
Nikolina Brown (Photo: Janelle Low)

Nikolina Brown
(Photo: Janelle Low)

CERAMICS

The focus of the ceramic studio is immersive and experiential, 
transforming clay through conceptualising, designing and crafting objects. Embedded in this are links with historical narratives and contemporary ideas that engage students in a range of creative working processes. They act as ways to explore, expand, transform and deepen a personal approach to making, while developing the aesthetic and conceptual considerations that are necessary in contemporary ceramic art practice.

Drawing Studio (Photo:Greg Creek)

Drawing Studio
(Photo:Greg Creek)

DRAWING

RMIT Drawing Studio maintains a broad and inclusive approach to creative thinking in a supportive environment where each student has individual studio space in which to explore and develop their vision and art practice mentored by a range of nationally established lecturers and academics. Our community of students share, exhibit and critique their works in some of the finest Drawing Studio facilities in Australia.

2019 BA (Fine Art) graduate Courtney Hogan Specimens (Amulets) Copper, enamel, silver, bronze, plastic

2019 BA (Fine Art) graduate Courtney Hogan
Specimens (Amulets)
Copper, enamel, silver, bronze, plastic

GOLD & SILVERSMITHING

Students in the Gold and Silversmithing studio engage in the making of jewellery, silversmithing and objects, to explore new approaches to traditional and contemporary metal and material technologies.

Students work under the tuition of contemporary artists, jewellery makers and craftspeople to explore personal ways of making that challenge conventions of wearability and the human scale object. The Gold and Silversmithing Studio is extensively equipped for the application of metal fabrication techniques that include soldering, enamelling, 3D printing, laser welding and silversmithing.

Painting student Meijuan Zhang at work in a RMIT studio.

Painting student Meijuan Zhang at work in a RMIT studio.

PAINTING

Painting studio equips students with essential technical and conceptual skills and encourages critical and analytical thinking. 

This studio provides experience in a diverse range of creative visual expression in the expanded field of Painting. Studies include investigation of historic and contemporary processes and concepts which are inclusive of image, object, installation and the performative. The painting studio encourages an individual approach to independent studio practice, self-motivation, sustainable studio working methods and highlights diverse approaches to problem solving and ways to expand and extend ideas, techniques and skills in a supportive environment.  

 
Print Student Marina Kong printing in Workshop 18. (Photo: Print Technician Rob Dott)

Print Student Marina Kong printing in Workshop 18.
(Photo: Print Technician Rob Dott)

PRINT

RMIT Print Studio offers students a holistic approach to art making through reproductive technologies from traditional analogue presses to contemporary digital printers.

With individual studios and communal workshops students access industry level facilities to research and experiment with concepts and processes facilitated by renowned print practitioners. Studies include artist books, digital imaging, intaglio — etching, dry point and engraving, relief printing, lithography, analogue and digital photographic technologies, print-based installation and screen printing.

 
Georgia Ruby Polichroniadis Arrested Flux (detail), 2019  Silicone rubber, thread, concrete, and steel

Georgia Ruby Polichroniadis
Arrested Flux (detail), 2019
Silicone rubber, thread, concrete, and steel

SCULPTURE

The Sculpture Studio fosters an experiential and transformational approach to art practice in which students develop critical thinking and technical skills through the process of ‘thinking through making’.

Studies in this major include object construction, modelling and mould making, installation, life casting, fabrication in wood and steel, experimental material practices, soft sculpture and bronze casting. Sculpture facilities include a series of workshops, including an industry standard foundry, equipped to allow students to work with both traditional and contemporary materials. Students are taught by practicing artists who approach sculpture as an expanded medium and work with students to develop individual creative practices according to their interests.

Julia Burke Partly Cloudy (detail), 2017 Single channel video

Julia Burke
Partly Cloudy (detail), 2017
Single channel video

VIDEO

The Video art studio includes the study of works that use duration and/or the manipulation of time as an essential element such as video, animation, sound art, web-art, live art, installation and performance.

This studio features a wide range of specialist equipment and facilities for lighting, recording editing and processing. Students are encouraged to develop a hybrid and interdisciplinary practice, experimenting with genres and concepts across fine art, experimental film and digital cultures.

2019 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) graduate Angus McGeehan, 2019 (Photo: Keelan O’Hehir)

2019 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) graduate Angus McGeehan, 2019 (Photo: Keelan O’Hehir)