1. Plan and produce a body of artwork leading to its public dissemination.

2. Apply practical and theoretical skills to produce artefacts that meet professional standards in a contemporary art context.

3. Use skills of visual analysis rigorously, reflecting critically and constructively on your own work and that of your contemporaries.

4. Understand and apply fine art methodologies relevant to your own artistic practice.

5. Sustain a disciplined and motivated approach to independent learning.

6. Undertake a substantive body of practical and contextual research that informs your work.

7. Use visual and written communication skills to a professional level in relation to your practice.

For this module, you will submit for assessment:

1. Public Exhibition and Evidence of Artistic Practice (Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 4, 5)
This will consist of a body of practical artworks, culminating in a large-scale public exhibition, along with relevant supporting work. 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 3, 6)
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. This document will articulate your learning journey on the module, and demonstrate a high level of critique, reflection, and subject awareness. This should be between 20 and 40 slides, with a word count of no more than 2000 words.

3. Exhibition Proposal (Learning Outcome 7)
This will consist of a digital document that outlines your intentions for the public exhibition and the methods used to deliver this.

This module involves the production of a body of practical work that you will make and develop in the studio throughout the whole semester, leading to a dynamic resolution by way of a professional exhibition of work. This resolution should demonstrate a maturing of your ideas and practical outcomes through the visual work you produce.

This module will enable you to review or revise your personal artistic enquiry and to test its viability and potential to sustain a substantive body of work. The focus of your activity in this module will take the form of visual, textual and contextual exploration into your chosen subject matter. As a part of this module you will be expected to examine, synthesise, and put into practice the developing relationships between materials, ideas, processes and production.

Throughout this module there will be opportunities for you to test the development of your work through regular studio presentations and associated tutorials and seminars, and you will be encouraged to identify and articulate the relationship of your own practice to relevant contexts. As a result of the module you will develop a range of competencies that will enable you to produce a professional public exhibitionżof artwork.

This module involves the production of a body of practical work that you will make and develop in the studio throughout the whole semester, leading to a dynamic resolution by way of a professional exhibition of work. This resolution should demonstrate a maturing of your ideas and practical outcomes through the visual work you produce.

This module will enable you to review or revise your personal artistic enquiry and to test its viability and potential to sustain a substantive body of work. The focus of your activity in this module will take the form of visual, textual and contextual exploration into your chosen subject matter. As a part of this module you will be expected to examine, synthesise, and put into practice the developing relationships between materials, ideas, processes and production.

Throughout this module there will be opportunities for you to test the development of your work through regular studio presentations and associated tutorials and seminars, and you will be encouraged to identify and articulate the relationship of your own practice to relevant contexts. As a result of the module you will develop a range of competencies that will enable you to produce a professional public exhibitionżof artwork.

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

Appropriate texts and references will be suggested by staff and students, directly relating to individual projects. Students are expected to utilise the extensive library facilities available within the University.


Ferguson, B, W., Greenberg, R., Nairne, S. (1996). Thinking About Exhibitions. Routledge.
Neill, P. (2012). The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s). MIT Press
Obrist, H.U. (2015). Ways of Curating. Penguin.
O’Doherty, B. (2000). Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. University of California Press.
- Various editors. Documents on Contemporary Art (series) Whitechapel Gallery (2008-2022)

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.