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PROSPECTUS 21/22 A LEADING SCOTTISH ART SCHOOL IN EDINBURGH CONTENTS 2.WELCOME 4. REASONS TO STUDY WITH US 6. STUDENT GALLERY 8. LEVELS OF STUDY 10. FOUNDATION COURSE 16. PAINTING COURSE 20. DRAWING COURSE 24. CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE 26. FIGURE COURSE 28. LANDSCAPE COURSE 30. ONE DAY PAINTING COURSE 32. PRINTMAKING COURSE 34. GRADUATE RESIDENCIES 36. APPLYING 37. ABOUT EDINBURGH 38. STUDENT SUPPORT 39. FEES, FUNDING & OVERSEAS STUDENTS 31 WELCOME Welcome to Leith School of Art - a creative community in Scotland’s on to a degree course, a graduate looking capital city Edinburgh. to launch your career or someone who has always enjoyed art and wants to find To engage with art is a wonderful and a way to make it a more serious part of enriching process and here at Leith your life. School of Art we provide you with the support you need to further your career We have a proven track record of in the visual arts. With intensive, high enabling people to realise their quality teaching, access to equipment ambitions, and our alumni are successful and materials provided, you will be able in every area of the creative and cultural to develop the skills you need to engage industries as artists, designers and with life as a creative practitioner. makers. Leith School of Art is not just about the work; we are a community We believe in teaching and nurturing of artists and we pride ourselves on our each individual. Every course has caring and lively environment. While been carefully designed to encourage we encourage our students to study individual creativity, develop your ability hard and be ambitious, we emphasise and further your understanding of the the importance of working together creative process. and supporting each other. When you are here you will establish a network Once you have completed a year-long of friends and creative colleagues who course, you will be equipped to continue will inspire, challenge and support you with the next stage of your development, throughout your time at the School and whether you are a school leaver moving beyond. 12 35 EXHIBITIONS Every year the School holds exhibitions where students are invited to showcase their work. Our exhibitions are very well REASONS TO STUDY WITH US attended, and provide an opportunity for students to make and present a body of work. Exhibitions often open up further opportunities for students to exhibit elsewhere, to sell work and raise their profile. OUR COMMUNITY We aim to be a small community-like art school, working together to create a positive environment which is focussed on learning. Our students are at the heart of our inclusive community, and are the MATERIALS INDEPENDENT COLLEGE centre of what we do. Leith School of Art is an independent Core materials are included in the fees. art college with charitable status. Our We do this because we believe that if TEACHING STAFF independence gives us the freedom to we provide high quality materials then All our tutors are professional practising offer more to our students in terms of you can focus on the making of the artists and highly experienced course content, studio time and teaching work without worrying about forgetting teachers. We hold a strong belief in the methods. anything, or not having the right importance of teaching and our tutors equipment. Over time you will learn work closely with each student to help about methods, processes and materials HIGH TUTOR CONTACT TIME them develop both their practical skills We provide more studio and tutor and establish what works best for you in and the development of their ideas. contact time than many publicly funded order to build your own collection. institutions, where full-time courses offer SUPPORT STAFF between 15 and 20 hours per week. Our OUR SIZE The School is fortunate to have a large courses have a high number of hours We are a small art school and we aim to team of tutor supports and technicians in the studio per day, with each course get to know every student individually who assist with the teaching and having tutors present between 9.30am and to develop a close relationship which technical duties, allowing tutors to focus and 4.30pm. Students receive intensive lasts through the course and beyond. Our on teaching. teaching while they are in the School scale means that students also form close and this direct contact is additionally bonds with one another and a great many We have a dedicated management supported by an online learning platform lifelong friendships have been forged and administrative team who are here enabling access to valuable course within our studios. Being small means to ensure the smooth running of the materials at any time. we are able to respond to students if they School. Our team provides support with need additional support, and also assist any issues students might face including students with their individual challenges accommodation, finance, and welfare. and goals. 14 57 STUDENT GALLERY Left: Foundation Course Above: Printmaking Right: Graduate Residency Above: Contemporary Art Practice Left: Foundation Course 16 97 LEVELS OF STUDY We offer courses at all levels and we tailor learning to each individual. Courses can be used as a progression into further YEAR LONG COURSES – learning, or to develop or consolidate Three and Four Days Per Week previous learning experience. Each Our full-time courses run between three individual’s learning goals are central and five days per week and require work to their participation in the course. to be undertaken outside of the School. Progression can be made from one course Access is gained through application and to another within the School, or to other interview with portfolio. Students use courses outside the School. these courses to develop professionally; either as a stepping stone onto another SHORT COURSES – course, or as a platform from which to Day and Evening Courses, establish their own artistic practice. Weekend Workshops and Summer School The courses can be taken either as a pre-degree course, or as a post-graduate PROGRESSION TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS Open to anyone, regardless of previous Many students use our courses to apply course, depending on the student’s level experience, these courses are booked into undergraduate and postgraduate of experience. Our tutors structure their term-by-term and are ideal for finding degree programmes in the UK and teaching around student needs and we out what areas you might like to pursue abroad. Leith School of Art has an are confident they can help students and for building up a portfolio. For more unrivalled reputation for enabling achieve their artistic aims. information please visit our website, or students to gain access to courses at contact the School to request copies of leading art colleges and universities. our Short Course brochures. Each course awards a certificate upon successful completion. OPEN DAYS YEAR LONG COURSES – Open Days give you the chance to visit PROGRESSION WITHIN LEITH SCHOOL OF ART One and Two Days Per Week the School, meet staff and students and Some students use our courses to build Access to our year-long courses is gained find out more about the courses we offer. up a repertoire of skills and experience through application and interview with They provide information about making for their own personal and professional a portfolio. Students use these courses an application, interviews, fees and development. Our courses can be used as a stepping stone onto other year-long funding, student support and portfolio to progress on from one to another, year courses and other institutions. Students reviews. Dates of upcoming Open Days upon year, or combined within one or may already hold a degree in an arts can be found on our website along with two years to create a ‘diet’ of courses subject and use these courses to augment details of how to book a portfolio review. or widen their artistic practice, or to gain that provide the learning each student experience with a view to personal or requires. For further enquiries or to professional development. discuss your objectives, please contact us to make an appointment. 18 119 FOUNDATION COURSE The Foundation Course stands alone in PROGRESSION offering four full days of tutor contact The School has an exceptional track time in the studio, with an additional day record and a consistently high success of research work set each week outside rate for students gaining places in the the studio for the students to complete. best art colleges in the UK and overseas. This makes the Foundation Course Some examples include: Glasgow School unique in offering an intensive five day of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Central per week course to enable students to St Martin’s, London College of Fashion, develop as rapidly as possible, serving Brighton College of Art, The Royal as the most effective springboard for Academy of Art, The Hague amongst students wishing to move into further many others. Students go on to study study. an array of disciplines including Fine Art, Fashion, Illustration, Performance Throughout the course students build Costume Design, Textiles, Architecture, up a personal portfolio for applying to Animation and Visual Communication. art and design degree courses: for direct Each student’s application to further entry into second year in Scotland, or or higher education is supported and directly into degree courses in England supervised by staff with longstanding or abroad. The structure of the course is experience of the UCAS application designed to help students decide what system. The process of filling in forms, creative discipline they want to pursue. writing personal statements, creating The course starts with a wide range of effective digital and online portfolios, set projects, introducing students to creating striking physical portfolios and a variety of disciplines from painting preparing for interviews is covered, with and printmaking to textiles and graphic tutors keeping track of each student’s design.