`Spider The Architecture of Art-Writing Louise Bourgeois' by Mieke Bal
University of Chicago Press June 2001 ISBN 0226035751

`Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces? Written by Craig Lisa/Houser Dennison
Published by Solomon R Guggenheim Museum (October 2001) ISBN 0810969343

Fine Art Studio Practice Introduction 1.

Studio Space.
Exhibition spaces.
Specialist workshop facilities, as appropriate
Library and slide library
Word-processing facilities
Internet access

This studio module is essentially student centred. Student self-directed learning and research is central to the learning strategy. This will be augmented by personal and group tutorials, work-based critiques, themed seminars led by staff and students. Group briefings and lectures are also employed.
You may undertake technical skills modulettes as appropriate.

You will be expected to develop and refine the aims of your studio work, based on the critical responses generated in the Studio Practice Development 1 module. You will make an appropriate selection of media to further your own objectives as identified in your project. You will be encouraged to incorporate and review pertinent findings and procedures established at previous levels. You will also be responsible, with continuing staff guidance, for appropriating and developing a set of particular skills to facilitate the production of artwork to a high level of creativity and competence. At the end of the module you will be expected to complete and present work in an exhibition context.

This module will help you develop a high level and range of competence in studio practice through the application of analytical and critical methodologies. It will give you the opportunity refine an awareness of your own practice within contemporary discourses and to develop further skills in research, documentation and presentation. It will develop a generative studio practice within a supportive studio learning environment and progress your work to be shown and assessed in an exhibition context.

You will present for assessment a body of work as outlined in the module information pack. This will include the following elements:

A statement of aims and objectives [Learning Outcomes 1,3].
Evidence of the use of a range of research methods in the development of a studio practice [Learning Outcomes 2,3].
An exhibition of finished work [Learning Outcomes 1,2,3].