| This external project at Gunpowder Park has enabled students to develop an experience of working in the outside environment, consider the links between their practice and a new context, engage with dynamic research programmes sited in and around Gunpowder Park, liaise with Gunpowder Park staff and the general public to enrich the understanding of their work and how it communicates beyond the studio environment. This opportunity also fulfilled certain learning outcomes for the students, such as developing an ability to work independently or collaboratively in a shared situation, to negotiate the challenges of an external context, and to identify, analyse and critically evaluate alternatives for artistic practice outside the students' own art institutional context. Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design is a part of the University of the Arts London. Central Saint Martins has a distinguished international reputation and offers one of the most diverse and comprehensive ranges of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in arts and design in the country. It is, in essence, the complete Arts College. The residency in summer 2007 was led by artist and tutor William Cobbing, supported by Alice Anderson, and in May 2008, the second residency was led by tutors and artists Anne Eggebert and Sarah Cole, and supported by Alice Anderson. |