Stone Carving (Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast), 1914-1915
Start Date: 1914
End Date: 1915
Type: Art school class
Description: 'The work will include:-
Stone, its nature and qualities.
Tools, their preparation and use.
A series of exercises in carving from good examples of ornament, in high and low relief, leading to carving from original designs, lettering, mouldings, etc.
Methods of procedure in carving.
Methods of designing for carving.
The use of the pointing machine.
Carving in the round.
Drawing and design'
(1914-1915 Prospectus, pp. 373-74).
Policy: 'Conditions of Entry - This class is open to all persons engaged in any business in which carving of any kind is required. No entrance examination or preliminary test is required to be passed. Whilst only one attendance is stipulated for, it is desirable that students of this class should follow up a course of drawing, modelling, or design if they are to attain to a high standard of achievement. A minimum amount of practice in drawing and design is provided in the class, and to correlated to the practical work. Students not engaged in the trade may enter the class as an additional subject to the Second Year Course, but it is desirable that students should join this class as part of the Third Year Course.
This class will be useful to carvers in stone and marble, monumental sculptors, letter cutters, and students of sculpture generally. Students will have opportunities of expressing their ideas in a material for which they have prepared designs in clay, and thus of gaining a knowledge of the limitations of the material' (1914-1915 Prospectus, pp. 373-74).
Citing this record
'Stone Carving (Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast), 1914-1915', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib3_1259095620, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
