• Inactive for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s):

• Owning School: Arts & Cultures
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

• Capacity limit: 25 student places

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

Studio Practice 2 enables students to focus and advance relevant practical skills and to develop an innovative and coherent body of work. The module supports the development of a self-determined and self-directed art practice underpinned and strengthened by contextual understanding and critical thinking skills. It provides a responsive learning environment grounded in practical knowledge and experiment, and encouraging research, critical reflection, and interdisciplinary dialogue. In conjunction with Art Writing, the module advances awareness of artists' contribution to contemporary culture and to develop research and reading skills, supporting students to identify and communicate a critical position in relation to practical production. In short, the module aims to advance the practical skills, theoretical and critical and the communication of critical position of Fine Art practice to allow students to work with increased rigour and greater independence.

Outline Of Syllabus

The syllabus provides a responsive learning environment where students are exposed to a wide range of critical and practical knowledge and are enabled to independently develop their own studio work and creative identity.
Individual tutorials with a designated supervisor will take place approximately every 3 weeks. Students also have opportunity for tutorials with fine art staff and visiting speakers. A weekly programme of lectures, workshops, seminars, and group critique will run through the semester. Students can also attend visiting lectures and PGR seminars.
Topics may include:
Discipline specific practical skills.
Art History
Contemporary Practices.
Cultural Theory
Visual analysis

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The module places emphasis on studio production, independent research, and the practical development of a distinctive body of studio work. The programme of scheduled teaching, and the interdisciplinary studio environment supports the development of practical explorations and the critical thinking skills to evaluate and direct this, as well enabling students to identify their own position in relation to others and the context in which they are working. Skills practice allow students to expand or refine technical and practical skills that can be applied in studio production (K1-4; S1-4).

The Module Talk introduces the aims and structure of the module. Individual Tutorials offer responsive supervision focused on the development of a coherent body of distinctive practical work. They encourage student’s reflections and evaluations of all aspects of their exploration and practical productions. They facilitate the recognition and development of relevant skills, and of critical positions in relation to historical and current debates. They also develop the student’s ability to articulate and debate issues most relevant to their own practice (K1 – 4; S1-4).

Group Critiques encourage peer to peer interaction and interdisciplinary discussion and are an opportunity to test innovate work with a diverse audience. In a peer supported environment students are encouraged to develop their communication and critical analysis skills around the work of others and to offer and receive constructive feedback (K1-4; S1-4).

Practice based and professional development seminars are based on the cohort’s interests and encourage student led discussion and debate. In an interdisciplinary and peer supported environment students are encouraged to develop and communicate their own critical position in relation to the subject, and to begin linking practice and theory and Fine Art professional contexts (K2; K3; K4; S2; S3; S4).
Skills practice allows students to expand or refine technical and practical skills that can be applied in studio production. (K; S1)

The programme of lectures, given by staff, visiting artists, critics and curators provide examples of advanced professional and fine art practices. (K1;4)

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Studio Work and Presentation (75%)

Students present and evidence a range of practical explorations and development in studio work (S1, K1) as well as contextual research or relevant critical/reflective material. (K2), It will focus on the physical or documentary evidence of the student’s self-directed selection and development of practical skills and the practical and critical methods by which these have been directed towards a distinctive and coherent fine art practice. The task specific assessment criteria are as follows:

1. Physical presentation of a body of work in the studio which may include material experiments, research, notes, work in progress and more resolved work (S1; S2; S3; K1);
2. Selection of appropriate materials and processes and the directing of work in response to critical evaluation, as embedded in the studio work (S1; S3; K1);
3. Demonstrate awareness of historical and current critical debates relevant to their own practice and wider fine art contexts, as embedded in studio practice and research (S4; K2; K4);
4. Begin to adopt a critical position towards the work of other artists and understand the position of their own practice in relation to this, as embedded in studio practice and research (S4; K2; K3; K4).


Oral Presentation (25%)

Students reflect upon, structure and verbally and visually communicate their own practical, theoretical and contextual developments, methods, technical processes, and respond to peer group questions. The student should be able to articulate a good understanding of ongoing development and direction for their own work and should be able to propose exhibition possibilities. The task specific assessment criteria are as follows:

1. Presentation of a body of practical work, supported by evidence of experiment, research, critical reflection, and understanding of wider critical debates and fine art disciplines (S2; S3; S4; K2; K3; K4);
2. Oral and illustrated presentation encompassing a well-structured articulation of the development, subject, content, and intentions for the practical productions (S2-4; K2-4);
3. Quality of presentation, with clear visualisation and use of methods and clear referencing (S2; K3).

Reading Lists

• FIN8014's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• FIN8014's Timetable