1. Apply developments in your range of material processes in an open, imaginative, and risk-taking way.¿

2. Critically reflect on your practical work, evaluating its meaning and broadening the range of ideas relevant to your practice.

3. Produce exhibition marketing material based on learning from gallery best practice.

4. Meaningfully contribute to the staging of a group exhibition, showing initiative and responsibility.¿

5. Publicly display appropriate artwork competently and proficiently.

For this module, you will submit for assessment:

1. Evidence of artistic practice (Learning Outcomes 1, 5)
This will consist of a body of practical artwork, displayed in a public setting (such as an exhibition or publication), along with relevant supporting work. The artworks produced should show progression and development from the artworks produced on the previous module. Supporting work might take the form of sketchbooks, notebooks, material tests, or other forms of practical experimentation, depending on your own artistic practice.

2. Practice in Context document (Learning Outcomes 2, 4)
This will consist of a digital file (for example, a Powerpoint or PDF) that combines images of your work with reflective writing about your work and connects these with other artists’ work and ideas. It should be a continuation and an enhancement of the document produced in the previous module, providing around an additional 15 to 20 slides, with an additional maximum of 1000 words.

3. Marketing Folder (Learning Outcome 3)
This will consist of marketing material produced for your exhibition, which might take the form of an exhibition catalogue, social media campaign, series of posters or flyers, gallery handouts, etc.

This module will allow you to develop and sustain the studio practice you initiated in Studio Practice Introduction, and to produce a body of work for public display. This module will develop your ability to construct an individual working method. It will help you to challenge and develop research interests announced in the previous module. You will continue to speculate and experiment with ideas, materials, and processes, opening up a greater range of expressive possibilities within your practice.

You will be introduced to basic principles of exhibiting your work, and of how the curation of exhibitions can transform the way individual works are received and interpreted. You will gain practical and conceptual knowledge of the mechanics of exhibiting, such as considering the appropriateness of hanging devices, object supports and intervention, as well as methods for collecting viewer feedback. You will also produce marketing material for your exhibition, preparing your own catalogue, gallery handout, or social media marketing campaign for your exhibition or public display of artworks.

This module will allow you to develop and sustain the studio practice you initiated in Studio Practice Introduction, and to produce a body of work for public display. This module will develop your ability to construct an individual working method. It will help you to challenge and develop research interests announced in the previous module. You will continue to speculate and experiment with ideas, materials, and processes, opening up a greater range of expressive possibilities within your practice.

You will be introduced to basic principles of exhibiting your work, and of how the curation of exhibitions can transform the way individual works are received and interpreted. You will gain practical and conceptual knowledge of the mechanics of exhibiting, such as considering the appropriateness of hanging devices, object supports and intervention, as well as methods for collecting viewer feedback. You will also produce marketing material for your exhibition, preparing your own catalogue, gallery handout, or social media marketing campaign for your exhibition or public display of artworks.

Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Group critiques
External Visits
Practical classes and workshops
Online resources
Group working
Public display of artworks

Altshuler, B. & Sharmacharja, S. (eds.) (2009).¿A manual for the 21st century art institution. London: London: Koenig Books; Whitechapel Gallery.

Boon, M. and Levine, G., (2018) “Introduction: The Promise of Practice,” in Gabriel Levine, Practice. Edited by M. Boon and G. Levine. London: Whitechapel Gallery

Obrist, H.U. and Raza, A. (2015)¿Ways of curating. London: Penguin Books.

O’Doherty, B. (1986)¿Inside the white cube¿: the ideology of the gallery space.¿Lapis Press.

Steeds, L. (2014)¿Exhibition. London: Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press.

Smithson, P. (2009)¿Installing exhibitions a practical guide. London: A. & C. Black.

Steeds, L. (ed.) (2014) “Introduction: Contemporary Exhibitions: Art at Large in the World,” in Exhibition. London: Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press

Thea, C., Micchelli, T. & Christov-Bakargiev, C. (2016).¿On curating 2: paradigm shifts: interviews with fourteen international curators. New York: D.A.P.

Further online resources are available via the Library.

Studio Space
Workshops
Library
Student word-processing facilities
Computer suites
AV Equipment
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module.
Exhibition Space