Welcome to FdA Art & Design Practice programme!


This exciting art and design degree at Cornwall College brings together our Higher Education expertise in Fine Art, Ceramics, Fine Art Textiles, Graphic Design, Surface Design, Illustration, Photography and 3D Design into a unique and vibrant interdisciplinary course.

Today’s artists and designers have to be adaptable individuals, constantly moving between different methods of work. Our course aims to provide an invigorating blend of traditional, contemporary and innovative approaches to learning, and is unique to Cornwall and the South West. 

Welcome by Senior HE Programme Manager Jamie Hanson

The highly qualified lecturing staff on the FdA Art & Design Practice programme are all practising specialists within their own fields of art and design. We operate industry-standard workshops using the latest equipment and expertise. 

Our interdisciplinary approach allows a student to keep an open mind about materials and methods, and to develop their own specialised skills within specific art and design specialisms, creating a unique approach to their own practice. As a student on the course you will have the opportunity to gain experience in collaboration, painting, design, communication, creative enterprise, digital media, image making, installation, animation, materials innovation, textiles, ceramics, metals, new technologies, model-making, mark making, plastics, print, professional practice, public art, and film. 

The programme also includes contextual studies, professional practice, and computer applications, including a Dissertation module in the final year. The course also encourages students to work creatively with outside organisations as varied as Truro Cathedral, KROWJI, St Michael’s Mount, Newlyn Art Gallery & Royal Cornwall Museum. A graduate from this course will be self-motivated, questioning and knowledgeable, and be able to see themselves, as a positive agent of change in the current art and design landscape. After graduation there are many avenues of employment to pursue, including teaching/ lecturing, or graduates may wish to set up their own art and design practice. Further academic study includes a variety of art and design teaching qualifications or postgraduate study at MA level.

• Module records
  _{Please open the attached FdA Art & Design Practice Programme Handbook & FdA Art & Design Practice Module Records Handbook}

• Kit/resources/books list
• Essential Equipment for the start of term includes: A sketchbook, pen/ drawing implements, a diary - ideally a page per week academic diary.
  Your programme team will supply you with all of the basic creative materials that you will need to complete your practical workshops. This will include ceramic materials, print materials, textiles and online materials such as a computer studio. As you progress through the programme lecturing staff will advise you in advance if there is any need for you to purchase specific materials to complete practical work.
  
  

Reading List:

Each Module on your programme of study will be accompanied by a comprehensive reading list that will be relevant to the particular Aims & Outcomes of the individual Modules. However I include below a reading list that will allow you to make some inroads in to the FdA Art & Design Practice programme before you enrol at the start of the academic year.

Wilde, J. (1991) Visual literacy. New York: Watson-Guptill.         

Kinross, R. (1992) Modern typography: an essay in critical history. London: Hyphen Press.

Baines, P. & Haslam, A. (2002) Type and typography. London: Lawrence King.

Barthes, Roland, (1982), Camera Lucida: Reflections on photography, London: Cape.

Burton,  J. (2005) Vitamin D: new perspectives in drawing. London: Phaidon Press.

Singer, P. (1993) Practical Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.

Cohen, A. and Wellman, C. (eds.) (2005) Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics. London: Blackwell.

Bal, M. (2009) Naratology: Introduction to the theory of narrative. 3^rd edn. Toronto: Toronto UP.

Herman, D. and  Jahn, M. Eds (2005) Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory London: Routledge.

Arendt, H.  (1998) The Human Condition. 2nd edn. London: University of Chicago Press

Baudrillard, J and Poster, M (transl). (1975) The Mirror of Production. US: Telos Press

Bourriaud, N (2002) Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay, How Art Reprograms the World. (2nd edn). New York: Lukas and Sternberg

Gablik, S. (2004) Has Modernism Failed? 2^nd edn. London: Thames and Hudson

Chambers, E and Northridge, A (1997) The Arts Good Study Guide. Milton Keynes: OUP

Cottrell, S. (Author.) (2008) The Study Skills Handbook. 3rd edn. Basingstoke/Hampshire: Palgrave/Macmillan

Rose, G (2001) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. London: Sage

Jencks, C (2010) The Post-modern Reader. London: John Wiley and Sons.

Lacy, S. (Ed) (1994) Mapping the terrain: new genre public art. Seattle, Washington: Bay Press.

Lippard, L (2011). The Lure of the Local. New York: New York Press.

Marcuse, H (1979) The Aesthetic Dimension. London: The Macmillan Press.

Murphy, S, (2010) The Art Kettle. Hants: Zero Books.

Sennett, R.(2009) The Craftsman. London: Penguin.

Spuybroek, L ( 2012). The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers.

Wolff, J. (Author.) (1984) The Social Production of Art. 2nd edn. New York: New York University Press.

Perry, G (2013) The Tomb of the Unknown Crafsman (The British Museum Catalogue).

 Paolozzi, E (1985) Lost Magic Kingdoms (The British Museum Catalogue).

 The Dark Monarch – Magic and Modernity in British Art (Tate Publishing)

 ‘Visible reminders of Invisible Light’ at the Hunt Museum in Limerick

http://www.huntmuseum.com/event/visible-reminders-invisible-light/

 At Home: The Domestic Interior in Art by Frances Borzello

• Recommendations for reading/watching/listening over the summer
  
  

  Prior to joining the FdA Art & Design Practice programme we would like you to keep a journal, try to write in this on a regular basis even if it is only a few lines.  We would like you to detail your interests, passions, core values, things that drive you and make your life unique.  These may be political, social, environmental, sporting, cultural, music, economic, experiential or related to your background upbringing and family culture, the things that define you as an individual.  We would like you to relate this to other artists and designers who share your interests, inspire you or have a similar working process.  Within the journal, we would like you to include images, photographs, drawings, writing, magazine/newspaper cuttings, leaflets etc.  You may find it relevant to also create one or more mood boards.  You may find it useful to look at artists/designers manifestos and mission statements…100 artists Manifestos (book) is a good place to begin.
  
  Second year FdA Art & Design Practice students have been tasked with completing a Summer Project, which if you do not already have a copy you will find attached below.
  
  Finally - the lecturing staff strongly recommend that you take the opportunity to visit Art Exhibitions and Galleries.
  
  Just some of the Art Galleries local to Cornwall are listed below and all are well worth visiting:
  
  

  Tate St Ives
  Barbara Hepworth Museum
  The Leach Pottery
  Porthminster Gallery
  Penwith Gallery
  The New Craftsman
  St Ives Ceramics
  Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange
  Yew Tree Gallery
  Penlee Gallery Penzance
  Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
  Jackson Foundation Gallery
  Market House Gallery