Offered By	Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Law, ANU Medical School, Faculty of Asian Studies, Canberra School of Art, Faculty of Science, and Faculty of Economics and Commerce
Academic Contact	Rodney Hayward

 

This workshop major may only be taken in a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Bachelor of Design Arts or a Diploma of Art.

The Furniture Workshop provides comprehensive skills-oriented courses of study intended primarily for students who ultimately wish to work as designers/makers. The student experiences a paced core program upon which both skills and theory components can be logically assembled. As a natural outcome, this is extended to the challenge of real and hypothetical design briefs. The latter encourage the development and extension of their design and making skills in the use of wood products as media for functional aesthetic expression. There is the growth of a skills base and the establishment of the fundamentals of a personal expressive language. The emphasis of the Workshop is directed to professional practice. A Visiting Artist program establishes contact with professionals and focuses on clients, design, making, and such outcomes as exhibiting and marketing. This is the reality of where most graduates will find themselves. The academic relationships possible between the School of Art and the Furniture Workshop together with the proximity of Australia's national collecting institutions make the Workshop unique in Australia for original investigation. The fundamental basis of the workshop is to train its students to think, explore and work with forms in wood.

The Workshop thus provides a context for Graduate Studies. In these there is emphasis of the development of the student's prior practice in practical and conceptual terms. It is seen by the Workshop as a time of maturation; the putting in place a known, deeply understood and reasoned skill. Applicants to the graduate programs are selected on the basis of prior achievement, the merit of the submitted study proposal and the availability of appropriate resources.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2009 website applies to the 2009 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2008 website.