Painting Department

The degree is centred around the many practices of painting. Students are encouraged to develop core skills and experience a wide variety of processes and approaches initially with a view to mapping the territory of painting as an essentially materially based practice. Painting is defined broadly and considered as a nexus of ideas and strategies to be interrogated and provoked – with students encouraged to extend aspects of painting practice (eg: colour, fluidity, space, site) into other areas, but equally encouraged to deepen their understanding of their own techne and technical fluency. As a result we have a ‘shared conversation’ which, combined with the diversity of the demographic of our student body translates directly into a diversity of outcome at stage 3 when many students exhibit work within and beyond painting and in contexts related to their research interest or professional role.