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SCULPTURE WORKSHOP - BRIEF

‘OUT OF PLACE’ 

"This workshop is an opportunity to push your understanding of the modelling and casting process and what happens when something is separated from its usual environment and experienced out of context. You will make work that supports your studio activity in direct or indirect ways and it is hoped that the sculptures you make and the processes learned can be developed further. 

 It is intended that these sessions will encourage you to expand your thinking around what sculpture can be through modelling, casting and replication in materials other than that which constitutes the ‘original’ form. You will transcribe selected aspects of your work and the concerns and research interests within it through a process of ‘drawing-out’ ideas for potential sculptural forms from which you will model a ‘prototype’ in a malleable material. From this a mould will be taken for you to make a replica of the prototype. 

 The challenge is to create a form that is entirely authored by you from a ‘raw’ and mutable material. The sculpture will be created out of drawings developed from direct observation or evolved from your imagination or a combination or both." 

 By the end of this project you should have the following work completed, which becomes part of your submission at the end of the Unit: 
• A series of cast sculptures
• A series of drawings for sculpture
• Relevant contextual research material & reflection 

 Reference material: Allan McCollum, Des Hughes, Rachael Whiteread, Rita McBride, Gavin Turk, William Tucker, Jean Arp (Hans Arp), Henry Moore, Alison Wilding, Phyllida Barlow, Thea Djordjadze, John McCracken. 

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