The Bigger Picture with David Mach RA: 15 Jan 2021 – 2 Jul 2021

Fridays 10am to 5pm

Artist Tutors:

David Mach RA, Bob Matthews and Liane Lang

Limited places available to join our post graduate course The Bigger Picture led by David Mach RA. This is an incredible opportunity to be mentored in a small group for a year where you become part of a community of 12 artists exploring as a group and as an individual, new territories in your art practice.

This is a selective course.

For details on how to apply please click here. Should you have any question please fill in the form at the bottom of this page.

Level: This course is suitable for those who have completed a B.A  in Fine Art or similar level or have their own art practise of three years or more. If in doubt please contact the school and there is no harm in applying. 

Course Fees: Termly payments of £675 or a two term payment of £1250. Payment done following acceptance to the course.

See our 2019-20 End of Year Online Exhibition – Click image name below to visit the galleries

Art has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades and the number of artists have increased dramatically too. Arts reach? It seems further than ever and the wealth it creates is substantial. We’re big players now. Our operation is on an industrial scale and the effect of our creativity is significant.

We’re not just painters and sculptors, we’re actors and singers. We’re performers, we play in orchestras and bands. We write poetry, we deliver spoken word, we design, we make architecture. Our ideas take us into every sphere of life and every time we pick up a brush to paint, every time we install a sculpture, draw on a page, write a story, compose lyrics for a song a whole world prepares to transport us, frame us, write about us, sell us, promote us, display us, restore us, record us, build us, buy us and buy tickets to see us, hear us and watch us.

Whether you’re a painter, a sculptor, a print-maker, whatever your branch of creativity YOU are in an army of idea-mongers inspiring, generating and re-generating ideas for towns and cities, for businesses, for galleries and museums, for hospitals, for health for physical and spiritual well being. There is no length your creativity cannot, will not go to to reach all of those parts.

As an artist you need to stand out. You need to be noticed. You need to be sought out. You can do that with the power of your ideas. Your personal development and your abilities, your skills, your demands are all central to that. It’ll be my job to inspire that development, to get you armed to the teeth to enter that world of art and to thrive in it.

On this course we will aim to take the skills you bring along with you and enhance them, supercharge them; that’s what this course proposes to do. We will pour over ideas, we’ll share them, we will find new technologies, we will hone skills, beat out initiatives on anvils and explore the world. We will invade with our ideas and push the boundaries of that world further with our art. On this course, these are the things we will pursue.

David Mach RA on the Bigger Picture course.

Course Timetable

• January Term: 15 Jan to 26 Mar 2021 – Half Term 19 February
• April Term: 23 Apr to 2 July 2021 – Half Term 28 May

Course Structure

• The details of this are-as much one to one, up close, personal tutelage as we all can manage and stand.
• Meetings with everyone on the course at the same time sharing and discussing ideas, bringing ideas of our own and of others to the table week by week.
• Personal development’s big on the agenda. We’ll find out who you are and what you’re capable of through all that one to one stuff and through discussion with the whole group.
• No topic will be taboo. We’ll find ourselves involved in sex, gender, politics, social issues and we’ll find out what art is. What it should be, what we want it to be, how we want it to be and where we want it to be and we want to make it with.
• Studio and gallery visits, spend a whole day looking at what’s out there in art and architecture, in design, painting, in sculpture, in film, in food, stories, music, you name it. We can meet, inform each other ridiculously of what the world is up to creatively, eat, drink and talk together, play music, watch a film.