Portfolio
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10 weeks, 4 hour session
Course cost: £350 Tutor: Hannelore Smith During each 10 week Portfolio course you will be guided through the creative process and you will develop a body of creative work that is personal to you and demonstrates your own ideas and responses to the project theme. Due to the popularity of this course, we have developed new introductory and advanced level projects (suitable for those that have already undertaken Portfolio courses with us previously). |
I enrolled with Art Pocket to sharpen up my creative thinking and enhance my art practice. I’ve learned new techniques, improved and built on my skills. Each project with Hannelore has been a thoroughly enjoyable challenge, involving exploration, experiments and visits. |
This is a course that is accessible for all levels and abilities, our cohorts include individuals wanting to come and join in for leisure and personal wellbeing, those who are looking to progress onto further or higher education as well as people who have perhaps studied creative subjects in a past life and are wanting to refresh their skills and knowledge.
Stage 1: EXPLORE
Within the first 5 weeks of the course you will be introduced to a range of media and processes that may include; print, drawing, painting, textiles and 3D techniques. You will be supported in the development of these skills and will produce a body of work which responds to a given theme. You will be introduced to creative practitioners that are relevant to the theme and encouraged to explore these further and continue to gather visual research away from the studio.
Stage 2: NAVIGATE
Throughout this stage you will focus on the development of media and materials that interest and excite you. You will further develop and extend work made in the first stage and explore ideas and concepts that are personal to you. You will participate in group discussion and 1-1 tutorials in order to broaden your ideas and approach to your work and develop confidence in talking about your creative practice.
By the end of the course, students will have covered all the fundamental skills within the creative process and achieved a thematic body of work that demonstrates personal ideas and approaches.
Students that have completed 'portfolio' have successfully progressed onto FE and HE courses, creative employment & self-employment
Stage 1: EXPLORE
Within the first 5 weeks of the course you will be introduced to a range of media and processes that may include; print, drawing, painting, textiles and 3D techniques. You will be supported in the development of these skills and will produce a body of work which responds to a given theme. You will be introduced to creative practitioners that are relevant to the theme and encouraged to explore these further and continue to gather visual research away from the studio.
Stage 2: NAVIGATE
Throughout this stage you will focus on the development of media and materials that interest and excite you. You will further develop and extend work made in the first stage and explore ideas and concepts that are personal to you. You will participate in group discussion and 1-1 tutorials in order to broaden your ideas and approach to your work and develop confidence in talking about your creative practice.
By the end of the course, students will have covered all the fundamental skills within the creative process and achieved a thematic body of work that demonstrates personal ideas and approaches.
Students that have completed 'portfolio' have successfully progressed onto FE and HE courses, creative employment & self-employment
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Introductory Level
(For new participants), Wednesdays "Cabinet of Curiosities" Begins 10th January 2024, 10am-2pm The cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer was the precursor to the museum as we know it today. A 'window to the world' collections were often made up of objects from far flung places, new technologies and sometimes the strange of bizarre... Many artists collect or respond to collections within their work; We will look to some of these artists and explore the methodologies they employ. Over the course students will be asked to bring in a collection of objects to work on -their own 'curiosities'. We will explore what your collection of curisoties might symbolise, connections the objects may have with one another or other objects, people or places. Over the ‘explore’ phase students will respond to a collection of objects that are pertinent to them and make a range of responses to them using drawing, 2D and 3D techniques. The theme is aimed to be open enough to enable students to find their own connections and visual stimuli and develop a body of work that is personally interesting to them in the 'Navigate' stage of the course. |
Advanced Level
(For those that have already undertaken at least 2 portfolio courses with us before), Tuesdays "Idea: Process: Play" Begins 9th January 2024, 10am-2pm In this advanced portfolio course, the onus for deciding on a specific theme will be on the students. Students will come with a collection of sources that they wish to respond to. We will explore the process of making and embrace ‘play ‘ through different materials and techniques with their sources in mind. In the intial workshops each week, we will look at 1-3 artists; exploring the materials and creative practices that they employ in order to communicate idea/meaning/atmosphere through their creative work. This course is designed to encourage students to delve a little more deeply into their creative practice and that of others. The course will include opportunity for group discussion and supportive feedback to one another. Time is also built in for focused 1-1 tutorials with individuals to support their creative development. This course is for previous Art Direction or Portfolio students. |