BA Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance

BA Technical Arts for Theatre and Performance at Wimbledon College of Arts teaches you how to make life-sized props, animatronics and prosthetics for film, theatre and the wider entertainment industry.


You’ll experiment with staging and design, as well as learn new techniques including sculpting, moulding, prosthetics and 3D printing. This will help you choose a specialist area of interest so you can graduate from the course with a creative technical practice.

Combining practical work with creative research theories, you’ll learn to develop prototypes and select the most effective way of realising your design ideas. Trips to professional production studios and workshops will complement your studies and develop your enterprise and employability skills.

What to expect  

• Expert staff: Learn from a team of highly experienced practitioners.
• An ethical focus: We have a responsibility to contribute towards a better and more sustainable world. Throughout your course, you’ll explore climate, social and racial justice and learn how to embed these principles into your creative practice.
• New techniques: Practise traditional and digital techniques including sculpting, moulding, casting, painting and finishing, prosthetics and 3D printing.
• Innovative ideas: Develop your critical thinking with creative research theories, including a scenographic approach to understanding objects in the context of environments and audiences.
• Sustainability: Explore carbon-friendly, sustainable approaches and techniques within technical arts.
• Networking: Collaborate with students from other design and performance courses and with industry professionals.
• Creative facilities: Have access to Wimbledon’s shared workshops

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