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PROSPECTUS 19 20 THE CREATION OF ART IS A WONDERFUL AND ENRICHING PROCESS 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. STRUCTURED GRADUATE RESIDENCIES 36. APPLYING 37. ABOUT EDINBURGH 38. STUDENT SUPPORT 39. FEES, FUNDING & OVERSEAS STUDENTS 31 WELCOME Welcome to Leith School of Art - graduate looking to launch your career or a creative community in Scotland’s someone who has always enjoyed art and capital city Edinburgh. wants to find a way to make it a more serious part of your life. The creation of art is a wonderful and enriching process, and at Leith School We have a proven track record of of Art we provide you with everything enabling people to realise their you need to further your career in the ambitions, and our alumni are successful visual arts. With intensive, high quality in every area of the creative and cultural teaching, access to equipment and industries as artists, designers and materials provided, you will be able to makers. develop your potential and move forward in your life as an artist. Leith School of Art is not just about the work; we are a community of artists and We believe in teaching and nurturing we pride ourselves on our caring and each individual. Every course has lively environment. While we encourage been carefully designed to encourage our students to study hard and be individual creativity, develop your ability ambitious, we emphasise the importance and further your understanding of the of working together and supporting creative process. each other. While you are here you will establish a network of friends and Once you have completed a Leith School creative colleagues who will inspire, of Art course, you will be equipped to challenge and support you throughout continue with the next stage of your your time at the School and beyond. development, whether you are a school leaver moving on to a degree course, a 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 WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT? 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 ALL MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED INDEPENDENT COLLEGE are the centre of what we do. Leith School of Art is an independent Leith School of Art charges fees to its art college with charitable status, students to cover the cost of tuition and TEACHING STAFF and has Educational Oversight. Our maintaining the School’s facilities. Core All our tutors are practising artists and independence gives us the freedom to materials are included in the fees. We do highly experienced teachers. We believe offer more to our students in terms of this because we believe that if we provide strongly in teaching, and our tutors work course content, studio time and teaching high quality materials then you can closely with each student to help them methods. focus on the making of the work without progress both in the practical making of worrying about forgetting anything, or their art, as well as the development of not having the right equipment. Over HIGH TUTOR CONTACT TIME their ideas. We provide more studio and tutor time you will learn about methods, contact time than many publicly funded processes and materials and establish SUPPORT STAFF institutions, where full-time courses offer what works best for you in order to build The School is fortunate to have a large between 15 and 20 hours per week. Our your own collection. team of tutor supports and technicians courses have a high number of hours who assist with the teaching and in the studio per day, with each course OUR SIZE technical duties, allowing tutors to focus having tutors present between 9.30am We are a small art school and aim to get on teaching. and 4.30pm. Students receive intensive to know our students which enables us to teaching while they are in the School foster close relationships with students We have a dedicated management and while non-contact time is regarded while they are here, and once they have and administrative team who are here as important for personal development, left. Our scale means that students also to ensure the smooth running of the it is limited to a small proportion of the form close bonds with one another and School. Our team provides support with course hours. a great many lifelong friendships have any issues students might face including been forged within our studios. Being accommodation, finance, and welfare. small means we are able to respond to students if they need additional support, and also assist students with their individual challenges and goals. 14 75 STUDENT GALLERY Left: One Day Painting Above: Printmaking Right: Figure Course Far Right: Landscape Below: Contemporary Art Practice 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 learning, or to develop or consolidate previous learning. Each individual’s learning goals are central to their participation in the course. Progression can be made from one course to another within the School, or to other courses outside the School. SHORT COURSES – Day and Evening Courses, Weekend Workshops and Summer School YEAR LONG COURSES – Open to anyone, regardless of previous Full-time experience, these courses are booked Our full-time courses run between three PROGRESSION WITHIN LEITH SCHOOL OF ART term-by-term and are ideal for finding and five days per week and require work Some students use our courses to build out what areas you might like to pursue to be undertaken outside of the School. up a repertoire of skills and experience and for building up a portfolio. Access is gained through application and for their own personal and professional interview with portfolio. Students use development. Our courses can be used For more information please visit our these courses to develop professionally; to progress on from one to another, year website, or contact the School to request either as a stepping stone onto another upon year, or combined within one or copies of our Short Course brochures. course, or as a platform from which to two years to create a ‘diet’ of courses establish their own artistic practice. that provide the learning each student YEAR LONG COURSES – The courses can be taken either as a requires. For further enquiries or to OPEN DAYS One or Two Days Per Week pre-degree course, or as a post-graduate discuss your objectives, please contact us Open Days give you the chance to visit Access is gained through application and course, depending on the student’s level to make an appointment. the School, meet the staff and students interview with a portfolio. Students use of experience. and find out more about the courses we these courses as a stepping stone onto PROGRESSION TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS offer. They provide information about other year-long courses at the School, Our tutors structure their teaching Many students use our courses to apply making an application, interviews, and other institutions. Students can around student needs and we are into undergraduate and postgraduate fees and funding, student support and already hold a degree in an arts subject confident they can help you achieve your degree programmes in the UK and portfolio reviews. and use these courses to augment, or artistic aims. abroad. Leith School of Art has an widen their artistic practice, or to gain unrivalled reputation for enabling Dates of upcoming Open Days can be experience with a view to personal or Each course awards a certificate upon students to gain access to courses at found on our website along with details professional development. successful completion. leading art colleges and universities. of how to book a portfolio review. 18 119 FOUNDATION COURSE The Foundation Course stands alone in The course has a high tutor/student ratio offering four full days of tutor contact with four tutors teaching throughout the time in the studio, with an additional day year, and with two tutors teaching every of work set each week for the students day. This allows each student to receive to complete on their own to research or high levels of teaching and individual prepare for the next week’s project. This guidance on their work. makes the Foundation Course unique in offering an intensive five day per week PROGRESSION course to enable students to develop The School has an exceptional track as rapidly as possible, serving as the record and a consistently high success most effective springboard for students rate for students gaining places in the wishing to move into further study. best art colleges in the UK and overseas. Some examples include; Glasgow School The course allows students to build of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Central up a personal and unique portfolio St Martin’s, London College of Fashion, for applying to art and design degree Brighton College of Art, The Royal courses: for direct entry into second- Academy of Art, The Hague amongst year in Scotland, or directly into degree many others.