Studio Practice 1A: Materials and Techniques

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• approach ideas of practice with an open mind;
• reflect on experimental outcomes;
• recognise key concepts, methods and techniques, in relation to contemporary art

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• conduct basic research including library research;
• work collaboratively;
• manage and complete projects to deadlines .

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• test materials and experiment with techniques: thinking through making.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• some of the basic concepts and methodologies of contemporary art.
• an introductory range of core skills;

This module offers workshop training in a range of skills fundamental to painting, printmaking, sculpture, digital and lens-based media, and performance. Separately and in parallel, it offers a number of set projects, the subject of introductory briefings, which provide parameters within which to develop your own ideas, test materials and techniques, and make work to given deadlines. On two occasions the module encompasses participation in a Shared Drive project - typically a remaking project – working alongside Part 2 and 3 students towards a collective outcome. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• project briefings
• tutorials
• group critiques
• workshop inductions
• Field trip

Learning activities include:

• project briefings
• tutorials
• library research
• Shared Drive projects
• group critiques
• workshop inductions
• peer-group learning
• self-evaluation
• Study Skills Hub

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes.

Outcomes and work in progress are discussed individually with tutors, and in group critiques and project reviews. The module introduces the use of the library for research of relevant current practice and art history. The advice you receive and what you learn should all be documented in your sketchbooks and research folders and will be manifest in the work you produce. Taken together, these items are your ‘portfolio’, which will be assessed at the end of the semester against the learning outcomes for the module.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

The library provides comprehensive advice on researching and referencing material;. http://www.soton.ac.uk/library/infoskills/index.html

panopto via blackboard.

Internet Resources

Academic Skills ( including AI) : http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash.

Blackboard.

Textbooks

Hopkins, D. (2000). After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Stallabrass, J. (2004). Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Elkins, J. (2000). How to use your eyes. New York: Routledge.

Graham, R. and Newberry, C. (2010). Winchester: Look Up!. Winchester: Look up Book.

Kalb, P. R. (2013). Art since 1980: Charting the Contemporary. London: Laurence King.

Craig-Martin (2015). On Being An Artist. London: Art/Books.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External