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 2023. 

(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.

In this course you will explore the physical properties of a broad range of materials and processes and languages in clay and ceramics, and will build on the conceptual and technical skills you have acquired in first and/or second year. You will focus on the combination of composite materials and additives to clay, and their inherent qualities using high and low technology production methods in ceramics. You will experiment with forms and processes to explore the language of materials in ways that expand, transform and deepen your personal approach to art making. You will further develop the aesthetic and conceptual considerations that are necessary for contemporary object making. You will also be encouraged to link theoretical and perceptual responses to objects that you have explored in other courses into your studio projects.
In consultation with academic staff, you will assume increasing responsibility for determining your thinking and making processes by considering appropriate directions for your art practice.

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 course you will develop skills in combining picture making, visual research and composite materials as a way of generating new knowledge and ideas for your studio practice. The two-dimensional ground is a place to play and experiment, to bring new ideas together, to translate and recombine public and personal meanings. This course provides a range of individual research strategies formed around cycles of making and principles of assemblage, collage, montage, unmaking and reworking, reflecting on ideas of painting-ness or the painterliness of the object. Objectives are to extend your skills to transform traditional mediums, to complement your emerging studio practice through individually realised projects and to develop awareness and understanding of how broad social and cultural perspectives can be reflected in contemporary art practice.

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 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.

This course focuses on the possibilities of making soft sculpture within a contemporary art practice. Students will undertake a series of short workshops which introduce a variety of conceptual and technical skills including basic pattern making, working with scale, hand and machine sewing, armature construction and the use of ready-mades. These skills will be contextualised by the works of a range of artists from Claes Oldenburg to Louise Bourgeois, and Yayoi Kusama. Students will develop their own works using a range of pliable materials and are expected to develop new experimental approaches and definitions in the production of soft sculpture.