Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) - Application form - 2024 Intake

 

Your Details

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Project Details

 
 

A one to three sentence description that briefly encapsulates your project.

 

This should be a brief, one-paragraph description of your recent work or study that has informed your thinking for your honours year (150 words).

 

A description of your proposed honours project or thesis including the historical and theoretical contexts relevant to your project (300-500 words).

 
 

Using point form, an outline of the aims of your project or thesis (approximately 5 distinct aims – 100 words).

 

A description of your research methods, studio or theoretical giving an indication of the motives that guide the research and suggesting approaches to your work and reading that you expect to follow to achieve the aims (200 words).

 

Using point form, an outline of the key texts and research topics that have informed your practice to date.

 

Folio

What should you include in your folio?

Your folio should include 10-15 pieces of work.


For applicants focusing on Fine Art Studio, the works should be carefully selected to showcase the technical skills, visual sophistication and current theoretical interests of work produced either during your undergraduate degree or in a course of independent study.


For applicants focusing on Curating, your folio should detail any practical works that demonstrate your curatorial interest (curated exhibitions and/or exhibition collateral you have produced, selected artworks), along with sample essay(s) produced either during your undergraduate degree or in a course of independent study.


For applicants focusing on Art History and Theory, your folio could be a selection of essays produced either during your undergraduate degree or in a course of independent study.


Supporting research activity such as drawings, sketchbooks, notebooks or journals that demonstrate your developmental and working processes can be presented at your interview.


Your folio will be assessed on the following criteria, which also form the agenda and expectations for study during the honours year:


Technique: The selection of and capability with techniques and materials appropriate to the research topic under investigation.


Ideas: Evidence of an informed and reasoned approach to creative practice: an awareness of the scope of the subject matter chosen for investigation; and knowledge of relevant precedents and the current context for such practice.


Progress: Evidence in the work to date of a sustained investigation of the initial premise and where necessary the expansion or re-definition of the parameters of the inquiry.


Resolution: The ability to formally resolve ideas in a way communicable to the assessors / interviewers, as appropriate to the line of inquiry under-taken and level of completion reached.


Divergent thinking: The capacity for the candidate to operate in a way that is original in relation to the precedents and parameters identified for their practice, contributing to current debates concerning their particular interest in the international field.

 
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