MTU Crawford College of Art & Design

What is the course about?

This course offers the student the opportunity to realise his/her ideas through the medium of clay. The student engages in the process of creative idea development and the production of selected pieces using handbuilding techniques. Students set their own project and develop their ideas using both their visual notebooks and practical handbuilding skills. Students are encouraged to engage with more self-generated projects that reflect their individual interests. The course explores the application of basic decoration using slips, underglazes and glazing. There will be a number of group analysis and discussion sessions to review progress throughout the year. The course explores the appropriate criteria and visual grammar for reading and interpreting ceramic artefacts and students are encouraged to apply these to their own work also.

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Tutor Profile

Bernadette Tuite  

After many years in San Francisco where Bernadette Tuite worked as a boat captain, she returned to Ireland to reinvent herself through an Art education. In pursuing her ambition to obtain an art degree Bernadette began her journey by setting up a ceramic studio in her native Co. Meath in 2011 while caregiving to her parents. 

To improve her knowledge, she began with the Pottery Skills and Design Course offered by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny in 2012. Bernadette continued her studies in Crawford College of Art and Design  & Shanghai University Fine Art Glass Department, completing her studies in 2018 with an Applied Art degree from Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.  

She currently works from her studio in Backwater Artists’ Studios in Cork, she exhibits her work locally and nationally. She is represented by Mill Cove Gallery, Kenmare and the Glucksman Gallery, Cork. 

Accreditation

These part-time, evening courses provide students with an opportunity to experience the potential of visual arts practice, through sustained engagement with materials, techniques, processes, research and art contexts.  Each course is an accredited module (5 credits) on the National Framework of Qualifications, where 60 credits equate to the workload of a full-time academic year on a degree programme.  It may be possible, therefore, to use these credits as part of one of our full-time programmes in the Department of Fine Art and Applied Art.  Students interested in pursuing this option should contact crawford.enquiries@mtu.ie and bear in mind that they would need to submit work for assessment at the end of the module.

Contact

Course Enquiries:
crawford.enquiries@mtu.ie

For more information & to apply:
https://www.mtu.ie/courses/craccxxb7/