This studio based course centres upon the students' self initiated work programs which are devised in consultation with their lecturers towards the development of their emergent practice. Tutorials, lectures, field work, the acquisition of advanced skills in studio research methodologies and the presentation of seminars by each student about the content and contexts of their practice are employed to achieve a thorough knowledge and critical awareness of contemporary sculptural practice and an ability to articulate the concerns of their art making. An experimental approach to sculptural practice is encouraged and may take the form of divergent or interdisciplinary works such as site specific, temporal, ephemeral or performative installations, or the development of particular sculptural forms related to object making or works related to the body.