Final Major Project (Fine Art)

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• think clearly and laterally in the resolution of technical and theoretical problems;
• accommodate the unanticipated.
• conceptualise and plan intended outcomes;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• edit, place and present work to a professional standard.
• make work with a view to exhibition;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• manage and deliver a public-facing event to a professional standard;
• propose and plan a major project;
• demonstrate that you can articulate and communicate in a professional manner appropriate to the chosen topic.

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• how to make clear and informed curatorial and technical decisions within a context of continuing experimentation;
• how to articulate and resolve your thinking in an artwork.

This module is focussed on encompassing the full range of knowledge and skills associated with contemporary art practice in an exhibited outcome, an installation, a single exhibit, or a presentation of multiple exhibits. Issues of presentation and audience are crucial considerations. Experimentation remains a vital part of the work of the module. The continued development of your ideas, through tests and reflection, leads to a project proposal, further discussion and reflection, and eventual realisation of the project. A number of visiting artists deliver lectures on their practice.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• module briefing;
• tutorials;
• group critiques.

Learning activities include:

• module briefing;
• lectures;
• library research;
• tutorials;
• group critiques;
• peer-group learning;
• self-evaluation.

Interim outcomes and work in progress are discussed individually with tutors, and in group critiques. Library research is again essential.

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. The module requires highly focused and effective ongoing research for relevant antecedents and theoretical underpinnings for the work in hand, 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, in particular in the exhibition of your final project. 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

Internet Resources

Blackboard (E:learning).

Academic Skills (including AI).

Library.

Study Skills.

Textbooks

Delillo, D. (1993). Underworld. London: Picador.

Nairne, S. et al (1996). Thinking About Exhibitions. London: Routledge.

Gay, P. (2008). Modernism: The Lure of Heresy. New York: : W. W. Norton & Company.

Storr, A. (1972). The Dynamics of Creation. London: Penguin.

Williams, R. (2014). Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. London: Fourth Estate.

Rancière, J. (2007). The Future of the Image. London: Verso L3S2.

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.