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

An assessment of the transcription of an appropriately identified piece of studio work (3)
Evidence of picture/thematic research including a critical understanding of the conceptual issues involved in the production of the original (1, 2)

This module will offer you the opportunity to research into how artists develop their practice through visual and textual speculation. This research will be undertaken with a view to producing a studio work in the style or spirit of a particular artist or genre that you will identify as relevant to your own project.

Bill Woodrow: Fools' Gold
Published: January 1996
Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1854371991

Alan MCCOLLUM Surrogates
Essay by Craig Owens: BEYOND RECOGNITION:
REPRESENTATION, POWER, AND CULTURE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1992
(originally appeared in Art in America, September, 1983)

Jake & Dinos Chapman: Enjoy More
By Ansell Pearson, Jake Chapman
Hardcover / Verlag der Buchhandlung
Walther Konig / November 2002 /
ISBN: 3883756113

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

The module will look at relevant artists as diverse as Bill Woodrow, Callum Colvin, Stephen Boyd, Derek Jarman, Common Culture, Art & Language and Jake & Dinos Chapman.
You will experience the following learning strategies:
Lecture and seminar group work;
Researching and information gathering.
You will be able to apply these methodologies to the production of a new body of work.