Bodies of Work is a course that provides opportunities for exploring diverse themes relating to the body in contemporary society.

Inspired by drawing and printmaking practices this studio involves research into visual thinking from a social, historical, and contemporary perspective.

Each assignment will be a thoughtful and highly resolved folio piece. Crafting imagery is thinking through image making.

Material thinking; idea generation, manifest in the methods of making images, is the foundation for practice-led research in this studio.  

Critical inquiry will support a range of image-making techniques and media, however the emphasis will be on mark-making as a process for discovering visual meaning.

You will research histories of art and image-making. 

Understanding an audience will be encouraged as it is vital for the success of communicating visual information.

Practice-led research methods will be the foundation for learning in this course. Crafting imagery is thinking through image-making.

Excursions and weekly workshops including drawing, printmaking and image-making praxis.  

Workshop and homework processes, outcomes and reflections create the content to produce a designed series of three Studio Knowledge Objects (SKO) in the form of A4 printed publications (and a psd-mockup of each). The design of the SKO series is important because these publications are your assessable project. During the semester you will develop a distinctly personal iconography by examining three core themes: 

1 Body Politic: form and shape 

2 Body: the sensory and ephemeral 

3 Gestural Bodies: Dynamic mark-making 

Your SKO series will become a visual archive of your process that is reflective and analytical. This practice addresses a given area of study with an appropriate level of complexity. The SKO documents will establish an experimental, visual practice with a focus on authorial image-making for design and illustration.

DeMello, Margo. Body Studies: An Introduction. First edition. New York: Routledge, 2014.

https://rmit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/61RMIT_INST/tcai14/alma9921727183201341

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Solid Lines is an Australian First Nations led illustration agency that represents and nurtures First Nations illustrators.

The Drawing Center in Manhattan's SoHo district explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought.

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is a not-for-profit organisation based in the UK.