Fridays 10 – 5pm
Tutors: Bob Matthews and Liane Lang
Fee: £675 per term
This course is has a limited number of places available. The course will be conducted on ZOOM in a small class size of 10 to allow for a good amount of tutor time. For course details see below should you have any questions please use the form at the bottom of the page.
The Contemporary Fine Art course is aimed at a broad range of artists and levels of experience and seeks to develop a community where practical and theoretical skills can be explored and established with emphases on making, presenting, talking and thinking about art. The course includes sessions that encourage your personal development in areas of subject matter, artistic processes and materials. Through a comprehensive set of tutorials, group activities, demonstrations, crits, gallery tours and visiting artists you will establish new areas of research and develop contemporary techniques for producing, displaying and disseminating art. Prepare yourself for full immersive days incorporating experimentation, playfulness, technique and discussion.
Course timetable
| Term | Dates |
| April Term | 21 April to 30 Jun 2023 – Half Term 2 June |
Artist-tutors
Bob Matthews
Bob Matthews was born in 1972 in Poole, England. Between 1996 and 1998 he studied at the Royal College of Art, London. He currently lives and works in London. In 2011 he was the first British Council artist in residence in Singapore, culminating in exhibitions at the National Museum of Singapore and Aisa House, London. He has had numerous solo exhibitions with Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco as well as the Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, Keith Talent Gallery, London and Domo Baal Gallery, London. He has presented work in public galleries including; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Cell Project Space, London, Gasworks Gallery, London, Jerwood Gallery, London, Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangzhou, China, Museu da Cidade, Pavilhao Preto, Lisbon, Portugal, Museum of Fine Art, Dunkerque, France, NIV Art Centre, New Delhi, India, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Royal Academy of Art, London, Royal College of Art, London, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Times Museum, Beijing, China, Vargas Museum, Philippines, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery >>> read more >>>
Liane Lang
Liane Lang is a visual artist. She studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and completed a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London followed by a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools, where she graduated in 2006. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Art in London, Musée de Beaux Arts Calais, PS1 New York and Kunstverein Heidelberg. She won the Photofusion Award, the Tooth Travel Award at Goldsmiths College and the Cheneviere Prize at the Royal Academy Schools. She was recently shortlisted for the Cointreau Creative Crew and the Young Masters Art Prize. Her work is held in numerous prestigious collections, such as Arts Council England, Royal Academy of Arts, the Saatchi Collection, Deutsche Bank, Kunstverein Bregenz, Ernst and Young and the Collection of the Kunstamt Spandau, Berlin. In 2019 Lang’s major installation We’re All In This Together was exhibited at Kunsthalle Tübingen as part of ComeBack. The film Studio Spectres was exhibited in the newly completed James Simon Gallery, part of the Berlin State Museum. Her long term project Glorious Oblivion was exhibited in 2021 at James Freeman Gallery. >>> read more >>>
