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Art and design summer school: creative courses for adults

Welcome to the School of Art and Media, the beating heart of Brighton’s thriving cultural, music and arts scene since 1859. Break away from your normal routines, step through our doors, and join the generations of artists whose creative journey has started here.

For beginners and improvers, join us for a truly unique experience in Brighton.

The programme

Monoprint for beginners

Slow Fashion: Make and Mend

Fashion Illustration

Dry Point for Etching

Pattern Anatomies

Pattern Anatomies

Saturday 3 June, 10am–4pm

This jam-packed day will focus on the different methods of zero-waste cutting. You will learn a whole new set of shape-making skills for fashion design.

If you are more experienced, you will have the opportunity to push boundaries and develop these skills in unique ways.

We will work with half scale mannequins, traditional 2D block templates and geometric draping techniques before scaling patterns up to full size. Use one or more techniques to create your finished piece.

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Monoprint for beginners

Monday 5 June, 10am-4pm

Don’t fear the blank page! Monoprinting and Monotype are simple, liberating and creatively serendipitous processes which enable you to make many exciting one-of-a-kind prints quickly.

Best exemplified in the work of Degas, Neale Worley, Elisabeth Peyton and Tracey Emin, monoprint and monotype for beginners will show you how to explore printmaking with and without a press.

On this one-day workshop course you’ll be able to try both approaches to really experiment and create many exciting prints to take away.

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Slow Fashion: Make and Mend

Tuesday 6 June, 10am-4pm

Breathe new life into an old favourite, on this practical and highly creative course. You will learn how to re-imagine an item of clothing or a piece of textiles, using hand sewing, embroidery, appliqué and darning.

We’ll help you develop and pursue your vision with confidence, so you can create something that is highly personal, infused with memories, and deeply embedded in the honourable folk craft tradition of making do.

Fashion Illustration

Fashion Illustration

Thursday 8 June, 10am-4pm

Working with short poses with a fully-clothed life model, you will learn to experiment with different media and start to observe the key lines working towards the essential shapes for a fashion illustration to work.

Our methods of teaching will enhance the experienced eye as well as supporting newcomers to the idea of illustration towards observation of line, shape and silhouette.

Dry point for Etching

Dry Point for Etching

Friday 9 June, 10am-4pm

A chance to roll up your sleeves and get hands on with printmaking. On this one-day course you’ll be introduced to Dry point to generate your own prints.

Dry point is a long established printing technique of scratching or drawing into plastic using a pointed tool. This creates a plate which can then be inked so that multiple prints can be made on to paper through the use of a printing press (like a giant mangle!).

Brighton Pavilion

Brighton's Royal Pavilion - a five minute walk from our City campus.

CONTACT US

You can contact us directly to find out more about our creative short courses at KnowledgeExchange@brighton.ac.uk.

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