Open Studio — Portfolio Preparation Course,
Creative Practices 2020–2021

We Lost You For A Moment There

It gives us great pleasure to share the work of this year’s students who have studied with us on our Portfolio Preparation Course – Creative Practices. All have shown a prodigious amount of dedication to their studies during very challenging times and have embraced working online with us, establishing remote working spaces, with continued enthusiasm and commitment. They have all been remarkably abundant in their making and created portfolios of work that are diverse and engrossing; whilst supporting each other in their learning, being extraordinarily good natured and kind throughout.

Our primary focus is the creation of a unique and distinctive fine art, design or architecture portfolios of work, for both ‘Digital ‘and ‘Full’ Portfolio submissions for Further and Higher Education Courses and other directions. Students studying on the Portfolio Preparation Course work in a Studio Environment this year online, within which every student is supported in developing their creative skills, through the application of a wide-range of imaginative, technical and practical processes. The diverse online studio-based learning and teaching activities, have been and are designed to assist students in simultaneously developing experimental and innovative work as well as acquiring a strong work ethic.

This year being online has given the students this opportunity to showcase their work via the GSA Website at the end of their studies, self-selecting and curating their own work and promotional material, providing a professional experience where the emphasis is on learning and thinking through doing, and the site will be available for the public to view for a year.

The majority of our students go on to study Undergraduate Degrees, plus some Postgraduate Degrees in either Fine Art, Design or Architecture, at institutions across Scotland, the UK and Europe. Other trajectories include being self-employed, running their own creative businesses and undertaking internships.

This year’s students are all currently being invited for interviews and receiving offers, considering other and all their options and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them for choosing to study with us and we wish them all the very best for their futures.

Deborah Holland + Joanie Jack

Joint Course Leaders

Portfolio Preparation Course – Creative Practices
Open Studio

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Experimenting with text, paper manipulation and sewing.

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Zoom phrases sewn onto old bedsheet. Projection onto the body.

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Creating surfaces, paper folding, charcoal.

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2D, 3D constructions using recycled materials. Sewing inspired by Louise Bourgeois.

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Ink drawing on created surface. Projection onto the body.

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Negative/positive drawing in charcoal. Analytical of sculpture.

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Playing with thread and elastic bands on painted canvas. Sampling constriction on fabric.

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Sketchbook samples.

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Exploring control, construction and chaos through sticks. White piece inspired by Karen Nicol’s lace.

Rhona Millar 10 Stick various Rhona

Further sampling of sticks to create patterns.

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Colour experiments, projection of pattern onto the body. Acrylic and ink.

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Polaroid inspiration, sketchbook sampling, embroidery.

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Embroidery collage and acrylic.

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Exploring memory through childhood textiles and images.

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Further exploration of memory using polaroid.

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Colour and pattern sampling.

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Exploring patterns and textures in branch of wood. Ink iterations of it painted into a zine. Monoprint, embroidery, twigs, straws, painted Amazon envelope and postcard.

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Sampling loops, shapes, pattens from zine in Slide 17.

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Transferring ink iterations onto fabric samples.