Workshops

This page will assist you with a list of potential class offerings for Workshop 2 (VART 3689) and Workshop 4 (VART 3691) under Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Hong Kong program in Semester 2. 

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

You will only take one Workshop class in semester 2, but you need to list three (3) preferences. These Workshops will be for both first and second year students and will be offered under the following course codes: 

Year 1:  Workshop 2 (VART 3689)
Year 2:  Workshop 4 (VART 3691) 

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

The course is based around a series of structured projects that engage issues related to analogue photography. It will introduce you to filmic photography, including various filmic cameras, and technical knowledge around exposures and image control, and black and white darkroom processes. You will create a range of art works and related support material to establish the means to analyse modes of practice and models of aesthetics and meaning in analogue photography. You will develop knowledge and skills in analysing, responding and discussing your own artwork and the artwork of others.

In this course you will learn the technical knowledge and gain experience using artificial lightning in the production of photographs. You will learn about hand-held flash photography, studio lighting and key light and fill-in in the production process of developing your photographic practice. This workshop introduces you to relevant strategies for engaging with studio as a way of thinking and making. The course is structured around projects that facilitate the development of ways of working that are expansive and adaptable to your studio specialisation. You will critically reflect upon strategies of studio practice and constructions of meaning to help inform your own developing art practice.

Clay is an irresistible material with endless making potential. This subject is a playful approach to clay with a pursuit on details . In this course, you will explore how porcelain and different colouring agents can be merged to create small aesthetic objects for use and appreciation. Techniques such as lamination, inlaid, marbling will be introduced that can be transformed to create multiple possibilities.

Colour is an important deliberation when making art. In this course you will focus on colour in various objective and subjective guises - considering it; as idea, as culture, as material, as expressive, as social, as political, as metaphor, as aesthetic, as intuitive, as emotion, as personal, as signifier, as technical. The course is studio based and is designed and delivered in ways, which focuses on your individual responses to colour and at the same time exposing you to a range of technical approaches with colour in painting practice. This includes; the principles of colour, colour and grisaille, tonality, limited palettes, and colour mixing. At all times experimentation is encouraged as a way to extend and develop a body of artworks in any form and material relevant to your individual interests.
The course will be delivered through flexible set projects, lectures, demonstrations, and individual studio and group tutorials.

In this course, you will learn and practice wheel throwing technique and basic glaze technology. Through a series of projects, you will develop a range of shapes that express a familial connection. Glaze research will further this personal approach with an investigation of materials that influence surface and additives that inspire glaze character. The course will promote an individual vision manifest as a group of new ceramic forms from the wheel.

In this studio-based workshop you will investigate a diverse range of conceptual and technical aspects of figuration. Through a series of projects, you will experience the human image and the broader framework of the real, the landscape, the natural world and the body. Using strategies such as observation, models, reproductions and film as source material you will develop an individual approach to contemporary figuration. You will investigate ideas of narrative, distortion, movement, emptiness, and trace as form and content, in a way that explores the unique place of figuration in contemporary art. This workshop will enable you to explore the relationship between painting, drawing, photography, social media and film. Research and experimentation are a core strategy of the workshop leading to a group of individual, resolved artworks. Visual lectures, individual and group tutorials, and demonstrations complement this workshop.

This course extends upon the concepts, materials and process of painting and related practices of drawing, installation and the object. 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 technical studio practice. The course is structured through generalised thematic projects and advanced individual self-directed projects. You will experiment with materiality, colour, surface, scale, texture, gesture, images, chance, pattern, repetition and working in series. There will be a focus on abstraction and figurative modes of expression. Themes in contemporary art will be investigated to demonstrate how artists initiate, expand and maximize outputs through experimentation and research. Individual and group tutorials, discussion and feedback sessions, studio demonstrations and studio health and safety complement this painting workshop.

Various woods have been a traditional material in sculptural practice and continues to maintain currency in contemporary practice. In this course you will develop a range of practical skills across a range of processes which are commonly used in sculpture practice. You will be introduced to particular methods and materials through specific projects, with an emphasis on the relation to your own individual concepts in art making. You will be given practical instruction and experience in the use of workshop equipment together with relevant health and safety training in the production of wood as a vibrant material in art making. The course will cover areas including; hand tools used in wood application, round carving, polishing and wood finishes of final resolved artworks.