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The distinct qualities which characterise the learning experience are active learning through the continual use of materials and processes in a studio environment. The studio environment is active as a place of individual ...

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The distinct qualities which characterise the learning experience are active learning through the continual use of materials and processes in a studio environment. The studio environment is active as a place of individual visual research, making and presenting works and through this practice also enables peer learning.

Learning about art in the contemporary world and the experience of the practice of learning in a shared group context is central to the course. The Painting course is housed in purpose-designed spacious studios, with workshop studio and audiovisual demonstration seminar space. The lecturers and technical officers who deliver the course are all professional working artists and this perspective ensures that the Painting course is focused on the provision of knowledge which is up-to-date and relevant to the contemporary world.

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Year 2: Students are given a comprehensive introduction to project based learning in studio painting practice and are encouraged to develop drawing as a key practice for the development of ideas and the recording of the world thro...

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Year 2: Students are given a comprehensive introduction to project based learning in studio painting practice and are encouraged to develop drawing as a key practice for the development of ideas and the recording of the world through observation. Students have the opportunity to research and exhibit art works within a museum context.

Year 3: International study is facilitated in Year 3 through the Erasmus programme and incoming European students are integrated into the life of the department. Students are encouraged to expand and diversify the range of technical and conceptual approaches through engagement with photography, video and collaborative project formats. In year 3, all students will undertake a 30 credit placement in the second semester.

Year 4: In Year 4, students are mentored individually and through group formats of dialogue, critique and workshops to achieve a successful outcome of research and practice, exhibited in the final BA degree exhibition.

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Graduates from this course have pursued successful career paths in a wide variety of art and related fields including; education and outreach, curatorial practice, animation, the film industry and establishing a cont...

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Graduates from this course have pursued successful career paths in a wide variety of art and related fields including; education and outreach, curatorial practice, animation, the film industry and establishing a contemporary art practice.

Graduates can also progress to postgraduate; Masters and PhD level study. Some recent graduates have continued to progress their study on prestigious courses both in Ireland and abroad including; Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths College, Edinburgh College of Art, and Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Canada.

Recent graduates of the Painting course at LSAD include contemporary artists; Conor Harrington, Ann Ryan, Diana Copperwhite, Ramon Kassam and Gerry Davis (winner of the Hennessy Portrait Prize). Performance artist; Amanda Coogan and Sandra Hickey (animation painter on Loving Vincent). Curators; Niamh Brown (Ormston House), Claire Walsh (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and Art Critic and writer; Chris Hayes (Emotional Art Magazine).