Creating A Project Portfolio for 16 to 18 Year Olds Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course offers a step-by-step guide through the creative process, from inspiration to outcome. Whether you're interested in fashion, textiles, 3D design, painting or any other design discipline, you'll work to develop a personal and inspiring approach to creative research.
With a strong emphasis on the value of credible research, this course will also help you build a portfolio that reflects your personal and inspiring formula and leads to compelling final outcomes.
Who this course is for
- Students aged 16 to 18 with keen interest in working on a creative project
- Students who are planning on studying at Foundation or BA level
- This course includes a trip or visit off site
Key information
Topics covered
- Research surroundings by photographing, drawing and making collage
- Transform research outcomes to ideas and concepts
- Establish project direction by narrowing down ideas and findings
- Personalised advise and group tutorials
- Museum or gallery visit
Learning outcomes
- Strengthen your art portfolio
- Create a rich and exciting sketchpad with illustrations, collages and 3D design mock-ups for future expansion
- Receive a digital badge and certificate of attendance
- Develop an open-minded approach to art and design
- Experience art school teaching
For practical information about our kids and teens courses, take a look at our kids and teens information hub. This includes details of our policies on safeguarding, food allergies, learning requirements and online study.
Materials
If possible, please bring a camera or camera phone to record the process of making work, and the outcomes.
Everything else needed to complete the course is provided, but please feel free to bring any current sketchbooks or materials you enjoy using.
Tutor
Jacqueline Gunn
Jacqueline Gunn is a freelance set and costume designer and artist. She lecturers on higher and further education and MA courses in the UK and Europe. Jacqueline has also had several artist residencies in schools, and works with referral units and special needs groups. Jacqueline has worked as a Designer in mainstream and devised Theatre, Opera, Contemporary Dance and Community projects.
Michael Spencer
Michael has worked in professional theatre for over 20 years, designing set and costume for over 50 productions. The range of his work incorporates community theatre, commercial touring, repertory theatre and Opera.
In 1991 he became the first person in the UK to receive an MA in Theatre Design. During his time as Course Director for BA Performance Design & Practice (formally BA Theatre Design) at Central Saint Martins, the course broadened its remit to reflect both expanding applications of the discipline and a changing public agenda.
Michael’s own practice reflects this shift. Recent commissions include a site specific ‘Attempts On Her Life’ (Crimp) at a disused Gas Utilities building in Colorado Springs and a play based on a Mathematics lecture, ‘The Anatomy of Integers & Permutations’ performed recently at both Princeton and Berkeley Universities in the USA. His touring production of an adaptation of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ in association with Imitating the Dog was shortlisted by the Manchester Evening Post for Best Design.
He has presented at two United States Institute of Theatre Technicians conferences and was a UK representative at the 2009 OISTAT symposium in Moscow. As a member of the executive committee of the Performance Design Education Collective (PDEC) Michael has been heavily involved in two recent conferences and the UK schools exhibit for the last three Prague Quadrennial exhibitions. He has written articles for the ACTDs Sightline Magazine, SBTDs Blue Pages and BBC Vision magazine and has recently had a paper published in New Performance Languages, published by Inter-Disciplinary.net.
Recently his focus has shifted to community-based contexts, creating the Generations project with All Change Arts and receiving Arts Council England funding for a large scale community-based theatre project in Thurrock: The Peoples Hamlet. In 2019 he became Director of the two Elders Companies at Southwark Playhouse, (The Southwark Players and The Improvisors), directing Martin Crimp’s 'Attempts on Her Life' for one of the companies in 2021.
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