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Dirty Practice 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dirty Practice\/ Painting Workshop<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

22-26 June 2015,  Fine Art, Wolverhampton School of Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>The week-long workshop aims to provide students with the opportunity to both observe discuss and take part in a sustainable model of studio based practice alongside practitioners who engage in and teach through their own painting practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specialist painting workshops in a \u2018master class\u2019 style, offer a small group of students the chance to engage with a professional practitioner, in a small project and engage in a in-depth discussion on painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participant artists include:<\/strong>
<\/strong>Maggie Ayliffe, Simon Harris, Christian Mieves, David Gleeson, Simon Frances<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Theme \/ Theoretical Background:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n


<\/strong>Art theoretical and educational debates in recent years have foregrounded practice led-approaches and the conviction, that \u2018knowledge is derived from doing and the senses\u2019 that could not been achieved through other approaches (Barett 2007, 2).[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, many Fine Art programmes in large HE providers are operating on a restricted, generic model where classes and tutors are carefully timetabled and students work on a range of modules with distinct (but not media specific) learning outcomes.  Despite certain flexibility and free access to studios, students become increasingly comfortable with this mode of study. However our contention is that this framework does not provide an appropriate environment to learn an autonomous studio based discipline such as painting and we are increasingly forced to work \u2018outside\u2019 of the written curriculum to deliver a meaningful Fine Art education to our students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This worlshop explores the possibility that the current artistic framework where manual skills and studio based practices are increasingly denigrated in favour of conceptual or socially engaged art practices are in part mirrored\/formed in the educational structures (and spaces) found in the new HE environment and that these structures effectively mitigate against the teaching of \u2018dirty\u2019 studio based practices and disciplines such as painting. These developments could be summarised as a general critique of practice, where, as argued elsewhere, \u2018conceptual art is to painting as art is to craft.\u2019 ( Schwabsky: 2008, 86).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a Fine Art department in a large HE provider we are asking: How can we challenge this model of practice and instil new and more open ended approaches to learning in the minds of our students? And how can we maintain and instil the traditional values of Fine Art pedagogy, circumvent the restrictions of modular organisation and provide a model of learning in which \u2018\u2026understandings (that) are realised through our dealings with the tools and materials of production and the handling of ideas\u2019 (Barett 2007, 9) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a>see for examples the recent special issue \u2018The Art School; questioning the studio\u2019Journal of Visual Art Practice<\/em>13: 1 (2014).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schedule:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Mo 22 June 2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

10.00 Coffee\/Tea<\/strong>
Welcome and Registration <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.30 Introduction\/ Discussion: \u2018How to start painting\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.00 Studio Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.00Artist Conversation 1:<\/strong>Simon Harris in conversation with David Gleeson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>13.00 Lunch Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.00 Studio Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tues 23 June 2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

10.00 Coffee\/Tea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.30 -17.00 Studio Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.00 Artist Conversation 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maggie Ayliffe in conversation with Simon Frances<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wed 24 June 2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

10.00 Coffee\/Tea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.30 -17.00 Studio Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.00 Artist Conversation 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Gleeson in conversation with Christian Mieves<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thurs 25 June 2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

10.00 Coffee\/Tea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.30 -17.00 Studio Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.00 Artist Conversation 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian Mieves in conversation with Maggie Ayliffe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15.00 Group Crit Session<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fri 26 June 2015<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

10.00 Coffee\/Tea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.30 Studio Workshop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12.00 Artist Conversation 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon Francis in conversation with Simon Harris<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14.00 Final Crit Session\/ Exhibition\/ Finissage<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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