As your essential first step, you’ll explore the connection between ideas, materials, and technique through guided, hands-on exploration. You'll build a simple system to capture your thoughts while discovering the sculptural potential of coiling and fibre art.

Here, you’ll learn to:

• Capture and organise ideas through sketchbooks, notes, and visual documentation.
• Coil with raffia and diverse materials to explore texture, shape, and structure.
• Design vessel forms while considering the relationship between interior and exterior surfaces.

This module introduces unconventional materials and simple, versatile techniques into your practice. You’ll explore how everyday sources of inspiration and tactile processes can expand your artistic vocabulary while helping you stay connected to your own creative vision.

You’ll develop the confidence to:

• Work with alternative materials using looping, stitching, pinning, and wrapping techniques.
• Use books and found sources as inspiration for form, texture, and idea development.
• Build a personal artistic vocabulary through experimentation and material discovery.

In this module, materials become active partners in your creative process. You’ll explore how everyday items can be reimagined for artistic expression, learning to recognise their qualities and potential through hands-on experimentation.

You’ll:

• Repurpose found materials such as plastic, wire, mesh, and metal through cutting, wrapping, painting, and coiling.
• Evaluate material qualities like flexibility, strength, and texture to inform your making.
• Reflect on discovery, invention, and creativity to develop a more personal artistic voice.

This module focuses on curiosity, surface design, and material manipulation. You’ll explore how texture, contrast, and layering can add depth, detail, and meaning to your work while developing a playful “What if?” mindset in your creative process.

You’ll explore how to:

• Experiment with surface design through layering, texture, and embellishment.
• Use paper and contrasting materials to create depth and visual interest.
• Adopt a “What if?” approach to expand your artistic voice and creative possibilities.

This module explores how ideas emerge, evolve, and take shape within your creative practice. You’ll learn to recognise where ideas come from and how to develop them through reflection, experimentation, and process-led exploration.

You will learn to:

• Cultivate and commit to ideas, whether they arrive from certainty, risk, or quiet curiosity.
• Understand your artistic practice as an evolving, reflective process.
• Build trust in your creative voice through ongoing exploration and refinement.

This module focuses on organising, refining, and articulating your artistic ideas with greater clarity and intention. You’ll learn to analyse composition, recognise patterns, and use structured visual studies to strengthen your creative decisions before committing to a final piece.

This module helps you to:

• Use drawing, sketching, and maquettes as tools for thinking and testing ideas.
• Recognise patterns, rhythm, and structure in what inspires you.
• Refine composition and strengthen your vision through thoughtful visual planning.

This module explores how artists create connected bodies of work over time. You’ll learn how materials, techniques, and ideas can evolve while staying anchored to a central vision that brings continuity and meaning to your practice.

You’ll

• Understand how to develop a series using a guiding idea to create coherence.
• Analyse exhibitions and artworks as case studies for building a body of work.
• Gain confidence in creating pieces that feel connected, intentional, and distinctly yours.