My research question looks at what decolonising or non-Western ways of seeing within fine art mean, ways to achieve it and how to implement them in our teaching practice. The purpose of the project is to investigate ways to broaden the fine art curriculum to make it more inclusive.
The research questions guiding the project are: what does decolonising ways of seeing / a non-Western approach within fine art mean? What are the ways to achieve it? How can we as teaching staff implement them in our teaching practices? What would incorporating them in a regular club/seminar look like?
I teach on BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art. The cohort is large, around 160-80 per year group. I teach on year 3 and the course is organised into two units. A writing unit titled Thinking, Making, Writing, a wholisticaly assessed unit which comprises, an exhibition, a reflective report and a 6-8000 word essay or a shorter essay of 3-4000 word and a 15 min presentation. The second unit is titled Making Public, i.e. their interim and degree show.