Studio Practice 1B: Research and Skills

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a range of further introductory methods, materials, techniques and skills;
• aspects of the critical contextual thinking in the practice of contemporary art.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• begin to direct your experimentation and outcomes;
• apply reflection and critical engagement to your practice;
• develop practical and experimental outcomes informed by research processes.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• extend your conceptual engagement through material testing and experimentation;
• the application of practical skills and techniques relevant to contemporary art to inform your practice.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• manage and complete projects to deadlines;
• communicate your ideas.

The module offers workshop training in a further range of skills fundamental to painting, printmaking, sculpture, digital and lens-based media, and performance. Separately and in parallel, it offers further set projects, the subject of introductory briefings, which are markedly less constrained than the projects in Studio Practice 1A ( Materials and Techniques). The projects again provide you with the opportunity to develop your own ideas, test materials and techniques, and make work to given deadlines, but within an increasingly self-directed framework. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• project briefings
• lectures
• tutorials
• group critiques
• workshop inductions

Learning activities include:

• project briefings
• lectures
• library research
• tutorials
• group critiques
• workshop inductions peer-group learning
• self-evaluation

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 requires ongoing research for relevant antecedents for the work in hand, from current practice and art history, for which use of the library is essential. 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

Panopto via Blackboard.

Internet Resources

Study Skills.

Blackboard.

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Blackboard.

The library provides comprehensive advice on researching and referencing material;.

Textbooks

Walker, J. and Chaplin, S. (1997). Visual Culture: An Introduction.. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Lessing, D. (1962). The Golden Notebook.. London: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

Mirzoeff, N. (1999). An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge..

Dewey, J. (1934). Art as Experience.. London: Penguin.

Harrison, C. and Wood, P. eds. (2002). Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas.. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Evans, J. and Hall, S. (eds) (1999). Visual Culture: The Reader. London: Sage Publishers..

Benjamin, W. (1992). Illuminations, London. London: Pimlico.

Storey, J. (2012). Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction.. London: Routledge..

Barthes, R. (1993). Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. London: Vintage.

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