1. Extend your visual language through taking creative risks to challenge your creative ideas.¿

2. Demonstrate the ability to apply your practical art-making skills creatively, imaginatively, and safely.

3. Extend your practical and critical approaches to produce artwork to high level of competence.

4. Reflect critically and constructively on your developing art practice and research, effectively using visual and written communication skills.

5. Establish independence and self-direction in your artistic practice and research.

For this module, you will submit for assessment:

1. Evidence of artistic practice (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5)
This will consist of a body of practical artworks, presented in your studio space, along with relevant supporting material. Supporting work might take the form of sketchbooks, notebooks, material tests, or other forms of practical experimentation, depending on your own artistic practice. The artworks produced should show progression and development from the artworks produced on the previous module.

2. Practice in Context document (Learning Outcomes 4, 5)
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 is the collation of visual documentation for assessment that demonstrates your creative learning journey on the module, and should evidence the growing sophistication of your practical and critical approach. This should be between 15 and 20 slides, with a word count of no more than 1500 words.

On this module you will explore and test creative ideas, by developing an individual line of enquiry that builds on what you have learnt in Level 4. You will generate a body of artwork, taking creative risk to challenge your existing knowledge and toextend the depth and scope of your artistic practice. Through practical making and research, you will expand your understanding of practical approaches to art making. Critical reflection is a key learning strategy on this module, that supports your verbal and written communication skills whilst working with tutors and peers in the studio environment and in work presented for assessment. The module requires independent and peer to peer engagement in the studios and broader learning environment, in addition to the teaching strategies of lectures, seminars, groupwork and one to one tutorials that will drive your learning journey on this module.

On this module you will explore and test creative ideas, by developing an individual line of enquiry that builds on what you have learnt in Level 4. You will generate a body of artwork, taking creative risks to challenge your existing knowledge and to extend the depth and scope of your artistic practice. Through practical making and research, you will expand your understanding of practical approaches to art making. Critical reflection is a key learning strategy on this module, that supports your verbal and written communication skills whilst working with tutors and peers in the studio environment and in work presented for assessment. The module requires independent and peer to peer engagement in the studios and broader learning environment, in addition to the teaching strategies of lectures, seminars, groupwork and one to one tutorials that will drive your learning journey on this module.

Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Group critiques
External Visits
Practical classes and workshops
Online resources
Group working

Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Publications) – including Materiality/ Moving Image/ Systems/ Information/ Animals/ Destruction/ Boredom/ Queer/ Craft/ Practice/ Work/ Science Fiction

Hudson, S.P. (2021).¿Contemporary painting. World of art. New edition. London: Thames & Hudson.

Bishop, C. (2005).¿Installation art: a critical history. London: Tate.

Chapman, H., Seligman, I., (eds.) (2019).¿Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now. London: Thames & Hudson¿: the British Museum.

Fox, G., Herbert, M., Judah, H, (eds.) (2019).¿Slow painting. London, United Kingdom: Hayward Gallery Publishing.

Wolf, S. (2010)¿Digital eye¿: photographic art in the electronic age.¿Munich: Prestel Verlag.

Magazines and online sources to be regularly consulted:
Art Monthly
Art Forum
Art in America
Flash Art
Frieze: Contemporary Art & Culture

Further appropriate texts and references will be suggested by staff and students, directly relating to individual projects

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.