Workshops

This page will assist you with a list of potential class offerings for Workshop 3 (VART 3690) and Workshop 5 (VART 3692) under Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Hong Kong program in Semester 1. 

(Note: There is a separate page for Fine Art Studio classes.) 

You will only take one Workshop class in semester 1, but you need to list three (3) preferences. These Workshops will be for both second and third year students and will be offered under the following course codes: 

Year 2:  Workshop 3 (VART 3690)
Year 3:  Workshop 5 (VART 3692) 

These Workshop classes are 12 credit point courses and will require 3 contact hours per week plus associated learner directed hours. 

The preferencing process will be communicated to you by Hong Kong Art School in due course. 

For more information about a course, and/or to seek academic advice from your specialisation coordinator prior to deciding, please contact Hong Kong Art School. 

IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE: You must not repeat any class in your preference lists. Every effort will be made to place you in your first preference classes. Selected classes would be offering in each year, please refer to class information provided by Hong Kong Art School for details. Although we would like to offer all of the options below, classes are subject to viability and may not run if numbers are too low.  

Course Information

Offering Studio

This course will allow you to think about ceramics in ways which extend the more traditional and conventional ways of engaging with clay as a medium and ceramics as a contemporary and experimental art form. You will explore clay in its various states, alternative clay building methods of production, alternative materials as composites in clay, in ways which extends ceramics practice. The course encourages experimentation and innovation in the way you think about materials and form as it relates to your ideas, and challenges risk taking and conventional ways of thinking about contemporary ceramics.

Rorce Lau, Untitled (Digital Print)

This course introduces you to contemporary digital imaging technologies with an emphasis on the significance and position of the electronic image in art practice. You will explore the relationship between analogue practices and electronic imaging through projects that encourage critical evaluation of methods using conceptual and technical foundations in a fine art context. You will learn how to use relevant digital imaging technologies, techniques and processes as modes of production that align with your Photographic art practice. This will encourage you to approach the camera, scanner and computer as capture and production devices and to explore data output and printing methods to use as appropriate to your ideas. To facilitate your image production, you will be introduced to the latest software tools. This course introduces you to contemporary imaging technology with an emphasis on the significance and position of the electronic image in art practice. Electronic and digital imaging technology is critically evaluated within conceptual and technical foundations in a fine art context.

In this workshop you will explore the world around you to discover ideas leading to concepts of abstraction. You will locate and document a vast collection of existing abstract surfaces, patterns, colours, stains, architectural features, marks, texts, signs, symbols, gestures, and grids. You will investigate natural and urban sites and use photography, drawing, frottage (textural rubbings) and painting to record and research stimuli and materials that you will reinterpret into mixed media, paintings, drawings, prints, objects, photo works or installations. Consultation with lecturer will lead to individual projects, and resolved works based on your visual research. You will explore ideas of abstraction and processes with a focus on chance, composition, balance, matter, colour, surface, and materiality. Intensive studio experimentation will be encouraged, group tutorials and student presentations will be essential to the development of the research undertaken by you in this workshop.

Matthew Tsang, Before Collapse, 2018

This course brings together the technical skills required for model making for site-specific work. The technical skills you will develop in this course relate to a range of sculptural materials that can be used in model making including sheet materials such as card, wood, metal and foam core, shaping and modelling materials such as polymer clay and materials that can be cast such as plaster, concrete and resin. Models (or maquettes) are traditionally used in sculpture to aid in the visualisation of a final work but may also be shown or collected as artworks in their own right. Artists use them to develop ideas for exhibition and as an aid in exhibition applications. They are also often used in the development of public projects where an artist may produce a scale model during selection for a large-scale project. In this workshop, you will consider the model in the broadest sense and work with a site of your choice. You will develop experimental models to scale and will be expected to research your site (gallery or public environment) thoroughly through site audits, collecting samples and research. You will also develop skills in drawing, documenting your models and presenting your research.

In this workshop, you will learn the techniques involved in modelling plastic sculptural materials such as clay, plasticine and wax. Alongside these skills, you will learn the fundamentals of mould making as a simple means of reproducing original work and found objects using plaster piece moulds and flexible moulds. You will also learn how to apply these skills to cast directly off the body and other larger objects in the constructed and natural environment in situ. Modelling and casting have a long history both in art and design and has many industrial applications. It facilitates the production of one-off original works and identical multiples. You will develop skills in this workshop that will enable you to produce editions of cast objects. This course will consist of demonstrations followed by individual instruction for each student. You will be asked to respond to a series of guided projects which will both help you to develop sculptural skills as well as make work that is relevant to your own interests.

In this advanced painting workshop, you will gain knowledge and experience in established and experimental painting techniques, skills and concepts. You will experience a wide range of materials and production processes to create artworks relating to painting with an emphasis on experimentation, conceptual development and studio research. The course is structured through demonstrations & technical experimentation followed by generalised thematic projects and advanced individual self-directed projects. The technical experiments enable you to produce works that complement your own studio practice. Ideas include: the preparation and use of supports and grounds for a variety of painting methods including oil, acrylic and water colour, working from observation, colour and grisaille, tonal painting, the contemporary portrait and still-life, under-painting and glazing. Major contemporary themes include the relationship of painting to photography, hybrid painting, painting deconstruction and painting and materiality. Individual and group tutorials, discussion and feedback sessions, studio demonstrations and studio health and safety complement this painting workshop

In this course you will develop moulding skills and explore the mould as a basis of experimental alteration in order to develop and produce unique objects. Conceptual, perceptual, formal and aesthetic concerns will be addressed as they relate to object making and assist you to develop an individual approach to ceramic object forming using moulding processes. In this course you will explore and experiment with the physical properties of a broad range of materials and learn to perform moulding skills and processes which can be applied to making multiples out of a range of materials, such as ceramics, paper and wax.

In this course, you will develop your understanding of analogue and digital technologies focusing on printmaking transfer processes, and relief and intaglio printing with an emphasis on photographic imagery and processes. Lectures and workshops will provide a mixture of theory and technical skills enabling you to produce works and reflect on the role of traditional and electronic print media in contemporary art, through integrated projects. This will help you to expand the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of your art practice.