Workshop Preferences
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) has a two stage enrolment process for Workshops 2 - 5.
- Stage 1: Students enrol via Enrolment Online into Workshop course codes.
- Stage 2: Students submit Workshop preferences through myTimetable.
Workshops for second and third year are are offered under the following course codes in semester 1:
- Workshop 3 VART 3651 - 2nd year students
- Workshop 5 VART 3653 - 3rd year students
Important Notes:
- Workshop classes are 12 credit point courses and require 3 contact hours per week + associated learner directed hours.
- You cannot repeat any class in your preference lists.
- Although we would like to offer all of the Workshop options below, classes are subject to viability and may not run if numbers are too low.
- Refer to RMIT Timetable website for deadlines and details around preference process.
Course Information
Offering Studio & Studio Lead/Coordinator

Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison, What we saw out walking (I) 2021, Digital Zine
Artist's Books

RICK AMOR RUNNING MAN, 1989, NGV COLLECTION MARGARET STEWART ENDOWMENT, 1991
© RICK AMOR/LICENSED BY COPYRIGHT AGENCY, AUSTRALIA
Bronze Foundry
In this course you will develop practical skills across a range of processes and materials commonly used in sculptural practice in the bronze foundry. You will be introduced to methods and materials involved in lost wax casting in order to make small bronze works. This method involves the completion of a series of steps from wax modelling, plaster and sand investments, melting and pouring bronze, finishing and patination. You will undertake these steps in sequence and as a group and this will require hands-on attendance at all classes. The course is mainly practical but with appropriate tutorial presentations covering theoretical and relevant historical background.

Christina Ramberg, Glamour Guide, 1973, Acrylic on Masonite
Contemporary Figuration

RUTH O’LEARY, FUCK DRESS, 2018, AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, INSTALLATION VIEW
Drawing & Body
In this workshop course you will explore drawing techniques of the body and approaches to perceiving and expressing the body in space, the body as vessel, sign and as site of meaning. It includes life drawing and general drawing approaches, as well as ideas of embodiment and experience.
You will investigate thematic and self-directed projects addressing self and personal vision within your emerging art practice through drawing and related practices that are relevant to a range of areas of study.

MARLENE GILSON, WHAT IF, 2017
Drawing Concepts & Fieldwork
In this workshop course you will explore uses of drawing relevant in contemporary art practice ranging across picture making and narrative, fieldwork and environment, embodied, situated knowing and social practices.
You will investigate thematic and self-directed projects that extend the consequences of drawing for your emerging practice developing your formal and conceptual understanding of drawing as a mode and tool of enquiry, research, collaboration and expression.

Artist: Erin Bussell / Photographer: Michael Quinlan.
Experimental Clay Materiality
An experimental approach to key ceramic materials in glaze formulation and their role in the development of unique surfaces. How extraneous factors such as found materials, kiln atmosphere, clay bodies and methods of application can promote unexpected outcomes.

KO-JOU TIFFANY CHEN, Year 3 2019
Metal Malleability and Form

Karel Appel Moonbird, 1956. (Detail)
Oil on canvas 96.8 x 130.1 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1961
Photo – Peter Ellis
Painting: Contemporary Practices

Justene Williams, The Worker (Costume from Victory Over the Sun), 2016, Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Performance Art

Deborah Williams, Sudden disturbance, 2021, photographic etching and roulette, dimensions 14.5 x 14.5, edition 6. Image courtesy of Artist
Photographic Etching: From unique to multiple

OLAFUR ELIASSON, BEAUTY, 1993 SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART,
Projection Light and Optics

Rosslynd Piggott, High bed 1998 (NGA)
Soft Sculpture

Amanda Wolf, Psst, Video still (detail), 2020. Image courtesy of the artist.
Video & Sound Workshop 1
This is a first year workshop open to second and third year students. This course will introduce you to the techniques of Video & Sound. You will engage with processes, tools, technologies and materials and focus on acquiring the skills required to make time-based art works. This workshop will inform your practical studio investigations through a series of projects. You will also develop capacities to critically reflect upon, analyse and apply the technologies and processes within your specialised studio by considering the fundamental principles and elements of art.
Course covers:
Digital Editing
Camera operation
Sound recording/editing
Post-production
Animation