Drawing

Push your drawing practice into the professional realm.

Explore the versatility of drawing on this stimulating studio-based course. By investigating material, digital, spatial and conceptual processes and approaches, you’ll become an independent and ambitious critical thinker, identifying a wide variety of social, public and professional contexts for your work.

You’ll be supported to experiment freely and take creative risks as you generate innovative visions, proposals and concepts to self-initiated projects and live briefs. You’ll graduate as an entrepreneurial, resilient and resourceful practitioner with a unique portfolio and equipped with the technical and transferrable skills needed to forge an exciting career in the creative industries and beyond.

Why study this course at Falmouth?
Develop your practice and collaborate with peers in Falmouth’s renowned School of Art studios and facilities.
Work on exciting projects with a wide range of partners such as Trelissick House, Wheal Martyn Clay Works, Gallery Tresco, R.K. Burt Paper Gallery, and ShelterBox Truro.
Enhance your practice and research through inspiring off-site visits.
Produce a distinctive body of work and stage it in a public exhibition curated alongside the work of your peers.

You'll be supported by expert practitioners and researchers. You'll build your technical skills, critical understanding and career opportunities through exploring wide-ranging areas of drawing practice and contemporary critical studies.

Working individually and collaboratively, you’ll consider the world around you and develop presentations, shows and portfolios that showcase an ethical and boundary-pushing approach to drawing and the wide array of future real-world applications for your practice.

Year One
Working in our dynamic studio environment you'll take on a series of projects to develop drawing-specific skills and concepts within a range of contemporary arts contexts. You’ll start to develop rigorous research skills too, understanding where your own practice sits within the 21st century cultural landscape. You'll also have opportunities to show your work in the studios and engage with peers across all three years.

Modules
Practice in Context 1
Press Play
Practice in Context 2
Initiating Practice

Year two
In the second year of your Drawing degree, you'll delve deeper into your own practice, developing your technical prowess whilst learning how to articulate and present your work in a broad range of professional and public contexts.

Modules
Sustained Personal Enquiry 1
Situating Practice: Studio
Sustained Personal Enquiry 2
Testing Ground: Collaboration
Testing Ground: Studio

Year three
The modules in your final year give you the opportunity to demonstrate originality, skills and professionalism in producing a distinctive body of work and showcasing your ideas. You'll work on a project reflecting and building on your personal discoveries and ambitions. You'll also work on a major negotiated project, which will culminate in a public exhibition.

Modules
Entrepreneurial Practices: Agencies and Audiences
Practice as Research
Public Platforms
Realisation

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100% of your assessment will be coursework.

Assessment methods
Foundation year assessments are 100% coursework based
Continuous monitoring
Twice-yearly studio practice
Written assignments
Self-evaluation
Final-year dissertation, project and exhibition