• 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 Residency and Exhibition enables the independent development and realisation of a coherent and distinctive body of work in a public exhibition of professional standard. Students are supported to consolidate their knowledge of fine art practice and contemporary art contexts and direct their own practical, critical, and theoretical approaches towards effective material and visual communication in public exhibition. Students structure their independent practical explorations and research towards a clear understanding and public communication of their own practice and creative identity, and to collaborate to realise its presentation in public exhibition. The module aims to encourage ambition, innovative problem solving, practical skills and production, critical thinking, self-reliance, collaboration, time management and organisation. In short, it develops the essential skills for the realisation of a professional standard exhibition and the ability to effectively communicate their practice to an audience

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 test and establish their own studio work, it’s public exhibition and creative identity.
Students have opportunity for tutorials with fine art staff and for peer-to-peer group critique. Topics may include:
Discipline specific practical skills.
Curatorial practices.
Marketing.
Contemporary Practices.
Cultural Theory

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The module places emphasis on studio production, the practical development of a critically reflective and distinctive body of work and its realisation in public exhibition. The scheduled teaching, and the interdisciplinary environment supports the development of practical production, collaboration, critical understanding and the skills to evaluate, direct and resolve a body of work. The interdisciplinary dialogue also enables students to refine, identify and contextualise their own methodologies and critical position in relation to others and the context in which they are working. (K1-4; S1-4)

Module Talk introduces the aims and structure of the module and allows the students to begin discussing this as a group. (K1) (S4)

Individual Tutorials offer responsive supervision focused on the development of a coherent body of distinctive practical work and public exhibition. They encourage students to assess all aspects of their practical productions. They facilitate the recognition and application relevant skills, and of critical positions in relation to historical and current debates and wider fine art ecosystems. They also refine the student’s ability to clearly articulate a creative identity. (K1-4) (S1; S2; S3)

Group Critiques enable interdisciplinary interaction and dialogue and are an opportunity to test innovative work with a diverse audience. In a peer supported environment students are encouraged to refine their communication and critical analysis skills around their own work and the work of others, and to offer and receive constructive feedback. (K1; K2) (S1; S2; S3)

Student led group activity allows students to collaborate and negotiate with peers and with wider professional bodies, and to strategies and organise the practical realisation of a contemporary public exhibition. (K3; K4) (S3; S4)

Assessment Methods

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

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Creative Project (75%):

Students identify and self-direct the research, technical inventiveness and creative ambitions embedded in their distinctive practice towards a resolved public exhibition. This requires practical production and skills, critical reflection and evaluation, as well as interdisciplinary collaboration and negotiation with peers, and communication and negotiation with external professional bodies. Students are assessed on the following task specific criteria:

1. Creation of a resolved, self-directed body of work, synthesising research, technical and intellectual skills, critical reflection and underpinned by an understanding of historical and contemporary artistic context and issues impacting on the creative practice, as embodied in studio work itself (K1-2, S1-3);
2. Bringing together resolved studio work for presentation in a public exhibition, where exhibition space is well-considered, audience and concerns related to individual creative identity considered, as evident in the work as presented (K1-2, K4, S1-4);
3. Contributing towards the collective staging, organising and promotion of the exhibition, including communicating with peers and external professionals where appropriate as evident in the realisation of the exhibition (K3, S4).


Portfolio and Essay (25%):

Digital documentation of the works in exhibition, and any exhibition-related texts (press release, statement) and a written articulation of a reflective, critical and creative practices in a catalogue essay that identifies and interrogates key aspects of the exhibition’s concepts and methodologies (total word count for portfolio 2,500-3,000 words). This should include contextual review, allowing the student to demonstrate contextual understanding of their exhibition within a wider field, accompanied by an applicable bibliography. Students are assessed on the following task specific criteria:

1. Presentation of appropriate documentation of the work for public exhibition, demonstrating understanding of individual/collaborative creative identity and the strengths and constraints of specific discipline(s) (K1-2, K4, S1, S3);
2. Demonstration of appropriate research, critical reflection and contextualisation, as evident in portfolio and text and statement (K1-2, S1-3);
3. Contribution towards the effective communication and promotion of the exhibition, as evident in portfolio, exhibition text and statement (K2-4, S3-4);
4. Articulation of the development, subject, content, and intentions for the studio work in the exhibition, as evident in documentation and text-based components (S2-3, K2-4).

Reading Lists

• FIN8015's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• FIN8015's Timetable