“The Bigger Picture” 2017 with Bob and Roberta Smith RA is a year long course that run every Tuesday from 27th Sept 2016 – Tues 4th July 2017. This special year long course is designed and taught by internationally renowned artist Bob and Roberta Smith OBE RA. The course is concerned with thinking about painting in a radically new way and will look at painting as an act undertaken by the artist that has consequences; we will look both at the process of painting, surface, colour, form, composition and the subject of painting, the personal and political.
Bob and Roberta Smith has devised a course as a response to the crises in postgraduate education. It is aimed at those who wanted to study at postgraduate level but perhaps were reluctant to engage in formal education or to pay the high fees associated with it. During the course the fundamental question asked, ‘What kind of artist are you?’ but critically we ask another question, ‘who on earth would be interested in my paintings?’ By addressing this second question we help to engage you in conversations which will root your practice in a community of ideas.