City Lit contemporary collage projects 1

About this course

Participants explore two- and three-dimensional mixed-media practices including paper collage, assemblage, decoupage, bricolage, installation, construction, image transformation, monoprinting, transfer and wall reliefs. Text, publications, found objects and recycled materials are considered as ways to generate ideas, represent subjects and communicate meaning. Practical work is placed alongside visual lectures and discussion of modern and contemporary international art. Exercises, demonstrations, group discussions and one-to-one tutorials support experimentation with materiality, juxtaposition, fragmentation, metaphor and image-making.

What you'll learn

• Apply techniques associated with mixed-media painting, drawing, collage and assemblage.
• Combine two- and three-dimensional approaches in mixed-media work.
• Analyse relationships between materials, images, metaphor and meaning.
• Contextualise painting, assemblage and collage within modernism and contemporary art.
• Develop a working vocabulary of images, materials and found objects for further experimentation.

Is this course right for you?

The course is open to absolute beginners, intermediate learners and artists. It is primarily practical, with learners taking part in exercises and demonstrations alongside visual lectures, group discussions and one-to-one tutorials.

• No particular level of prior study is specified.
• Participation includes both individual tutorial work and group discussion.

Before you go

• Basic studio materials and resources are provided.
• Learners are advised to bring an A5 sketchbook for scraps, experiments, ideas and progress.
• A camera is required at every session so that work can be documented.
• The tutor may advise learners to bring newspapers, magazines, unusual papers, found objects and other materials from home.