• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Mr David Butler

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

Semesters

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

Aims

• To foster the development of professional and transferable skills and provide a strong basis for developing a variety of careers in Fine Art and related fields.
•       To gain an understanding and practical experience of organising a live project either individually or as part of a group (e.g. an exhibition, public art project, live event, book, website).
•       To gain an understanding and practical experience of different modes of developing concepts and presenting work in appropriate settings, taking account of: audience, collaborative partners, marketing, artist’s statement/catalogue, installation, budgeting, negotiating space, project management, working to deadlines etc.
•       To enhance confidence, intellectual enquiry, creativity and independence of thought.

The module will build on the learning students have developed through the LifeWorkArt programme and previous group projects (eg Stage 2 Strands) during the first three years of their degree. Students will make a proposal that outlines their project and shows how it further develops the thinking, knowledge and skills they have acquired and identified in reflective reports on previous projects. The project will involve some form of public interaction – e.g. with audience, external partners, students from other subject areas. Students will define the nature of that interaction – e.g. live art event, exhibition, website, public art project, socially engaged project. Projects can be individual or group, but assessment will be done individually.

Outline Of Syllabus

•       Students will be introduced to the module through an ideas forum discussing the nature of potential projects through actual examples and specific project ideas presented by students.
•       Students will submit a project proposal outlining: project aims, methodology, budget, schedule, resourcing. This will be developed through tutorials and workshops with fine art staff to develop a working proposal.
•       Students will undertake their project supported by tutorials and advice/support from fine art staff and relevant outside individuals and agencies
•       Projects can be individual or group projects
•       The module covers two semesters and so has the possibility to encompass live external projects. If the situation requires students can also deliver online projects.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

•       Small group teaching enables: networking and project sharing in order to build confidence and to consider how projects are developed in relation to audience, context and logistics; the development of project proposals in order to assist the process of planning and putting ideas into practice; the fostering of transferable skills; the enhancement of professional skills awareness; discussion around all aspects of preparing project reports and presentations for assessment.
•       Guided Independent Study facilitates: students working with independence to initiate, develop and practically deliver their own projects; the acquisition of professional skills of project management and delivery; reflection on the process of making ideas happen and how the outcome of these can be articulated in order to to feed into project reports and presentation; preparation of project reports and presentations for assessment.
•       Tutorials provide individualised support that assists students to: initiate, research, develop and deliver their projects; develop strategies for reflection and its articulation; address individual project proposals, timescales, content, contexts and other logistics.

Small group teaching and tutorials can be delivered synchronously online as required in response to pandemic-related restrictions.

Assessment Methods

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

Exams

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Projects will be assessed (including group projects) through:

- An individual project portfolio containing: initial project proposal, project documentation and reflective report. This enables a project to be assessed in terms of its development starting with the student (or group of students) clearly articulating the aims and structure of their project. The nature of these projects means they can change over the course of development and the project documentation and reflective report will address this.
- A presentation (to two members of staff) with Q&A summarising key aspects of the project and key learning outcomes for the student, and allowing the student to focus on what actually happened in the project.

Nb.Assessment can be moved online as required in response to pandemic-related restrictions.

Reading Lists

• FIN4016's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• FIN4016's Timetable