Graduate Painting Studio

Painting provides a practical, sensual and spiritual experience. This module takes an open-air approach where students explore self-expression and imagination through experimenting with concepts of space, movement and object study. In this endeavor, it is therefore compulsory for every student to keep an on-going sketchbook as a personal record. The module is characterized by intensive studies of traditional ways of expression through extended study of forms, and artistic painting. Reference will be made to art historical epochs and movements as well as contemporary practices in painting. Issues articulated in the module include composition and construction, colour and abstract order, the illustration of space, the poetic and symbolic sense and the relationship between aesthetics and ethics. The ultimate aim of the module is for students to produce visual art forms e.g paintings, sculpture that serve an aesthetic function in society.

Graduate Drawing Studio

This graduate studio module encourages the student to explore issues and problems regarding drawing as a central discipline in fine arts practice. This is done through extended analysis and experimentations with the traditions, conventions and techniques of drawing as a graphic visual language. Development of the module is through a series of themes designed to enable the student to develop high level drawing skills in the context of modern, post-modern, post-colonial and other critical dimensions. Drawing solutions will be in response to issues and concerns at individual and societal levels.

Advanced Fabric Design and Textile Technology

This is an advanced practical studio module intended to expose graduate students to craft and design knowledge and expertise in textile and fabric surface design, and technical and professional standards. The module focuses on the application of selected processes and techniques in the production of dynamic and innovative designs for functional, expressive, decorative or avant-garde purposes. At this level the student is expected to have prior knowledge and experience with the textile and fabric art form, especially major traditions and movements such as The Arts and Crafts, the  Bauhaus,  japonisme, le art noveau, art decor and  art moderne. Content in the module, therefore, encourages the student to select their own choice of media, materials and techniques in the execution of a wide range of concepts and problems covering traditional, ethnic, modern, postmodern as well as industrial and digital approaches.

Sculpture and the environment

This module provides students with dexterity and problem-solving skills through composition expressed through imagination and formal research and personal expression. Students will gain knowledge of spatial organization of the visual environment through mounting of creative public sculptures. Students will be exposed to a variety of sculpting methods, techniques and media such as weld-art and mixed media. They will experiment with media such as stone, metal, plastics and ceramics as they explore sculpture in contemporary spaces. The ultimate aim of the module is for students to respond to the environment in a sustainable way through visual design solutions.

Capstone Exhibition

This module is a display of a culmination of practical and curatorial skills acquired during the entire programme. The student is given a chance to curate an individual exhibition, advertise it for external audiences, mobilise resources, and organise for its official launch. The student is also expected to exhibit marketing skills of the artworks on display. Thus, the capstone exhibition is a display of the artistic direction that has been taken by the artist as an area of specialization with the aim to take visual art as an entrepreneurial endeavor.