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Programme · Studio Diploma

Sculpture & Clay

A sculptor in an apron looking at a clay bust

In short

Length
2 years, full time
Next intake
September 2026
Fee per year
£8,400
Studio
The yard workshop
Group size
10 students
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Half the yard is ours: modelling stands, a plaster room, a small foundry for bronze and two kilns that run most nights. Ten students, because the room is loud and the tools are sharp.

Clay busts on stands in the workshop
A ceramicist at a table under shelves of mugs
A sculptor working with hammer and chisel

What you will do

  1. Modelling

    A head from life in clay, the oldest exercise there is and still the best.

  2. Mould and cast

    Plaster, silicone and, once a year, a bronze pour in the yard.

  3. Clay and fire

    Throwing, hand building and glazing, with a kiln log you keep yourself.

  4. Object and space

    Year two is about where a thing stands and how people walk around it.

Black and white portrait of Anselm Kreutz

Your tutor · Head of Sculpture & Clay

Anselm Kreutz

Casts in bronze, carves in stone and runs the yard foundry twice a year.

“Walk round it. If it only works from the front, it is a picture.”

Tutors

From this studio

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Head of my grandmotherMatteo Varga-Lowe
Slab, coil, slabNell Okoye-Fairbairn

Applications open

Pin your work up with us

Applications for September close on 30 April. Send a few images of what you make, then come in for a conversation.