• Offered for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor Irene Brown
• Demonstrator: Ms Bridget Kennedy
• Lecturer: Professor Christopher Jones
• Other Staff: Mr David Butler, Ms Tracey Tofield

• 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

1. To build upon the foundation of understanding and skills established in Stage 1.
2. To encourage the student to consider the implications of working in particular media and studio specialisms.
3. To enable the student to identify subject matter and and working methods appropriate to individual interests.
4. To introduce students to a range of approaches to Fine Art practice.
5. To develop the students' ability to critically assess and direct creative work.
6. To encourage students to relate their individual practice to wider frameworks of reference.

This is a Fine Art practice-based module designed to provide a framework for the development of a self-directed, informed and well-supported creative practice.

In this module students determine the particular focus of their practice-based activity within the broad range of Fine Art practice (painting, sculpture, printmaking, digital and time-based media). In addition to their principal area/areas of creative activity students will select a complementary practice strand designed to introduce additional and/or less familiar media and ways of working, for example: collaborative practice, sound art, multiples, and site-specific practice.

Tutorials, crits, peer review, optional workshops, gallery visits and the Visiting Speaker's Programme provide a structure to support the students in developing their individual practice.

Outline Of Syllabus

Students attend a schedule of tutorials, group crits and peer reviews.
Students participate in a complementary practice strand.
Students attend weekly lectures in the Visiting Speakers programme.
Students can further support their studio-based learning through optional workshops and Forums.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The visiting speaker programme provides an introduction to the contemporary art context, professional practice and presents a range of practical, conceptual and theoretical approaches to Fine Art practice. Complementary practice strands provide an introduction to specific media, concepts and methods of working and offer opportunities to work collaboratively.

Tutorials are a principal method of teaching allowing students to discuss their work in depth, and to receive regular feedback on all aspects of their practice assisting progress towards all key learning outcomes. Peer group 'crits' help students to present their work and to critically reflect on their work and that of others. Peer review sessions allow students to familiarise themselves with assessment criteria and to further develop critical reflection.

Guided independent learning in the form of the research and development of a body of creative work assists students to establish increasingly independent practices with sound working methods appropriate to their interests and chosen media. Strands, elective workshops and forums assist the exploration of technical processes and materials and develop students understanding of the implications and possibilities of chosen media. Maintenance of a studio notebook in digital or physical form assists the development of sound research methods, the capacity to plan and make decisions as well as aiding preparation for and reflection on tutorials.

Nb. Scheduled teaching and learning activities will typically be conducted present in person in the Fine Art studios and workshops. Teaching methods may be liable to adjustment in response to changes to Government and University Covid-19 advice and restrictions. PiP teaching would be substituted by equivalent synchronous and asynchronous online delivery. Where scheduled teaching and learning activities are delivered via non-synchronous online sessions they will be followed by a synchronous on-line drop-in Q&A session.

Assessment Methods

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

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Assessment will focus on the physical and/or documentary evidence of the student’s main creative practice, Strand course work supported by other written, contextual, research and reflective material.

The presentation of a body of art work, a reflective Strand report and other related contextual, research and reflective material such as studio notebook, sketchbooks and documentation, enables assessment of the full range of a student’s engagement with the module in relation to: research and developmental methods: technical processes and materials; identification of subject matter; formal and conceptual considerations; contextual understanding; independent planning, management and direction of their practice; critical self-reflection and professional practice. It will show the basis and development of a viable, effective and exploratory creative practice and its capacity to enable the development of a body of artwork.

The assessment portfolio is reviewed with the student at a review tutorial following which written feedback is provided to guide further progress. Assessment is conducted PiP or synchronous online if required by Covid-19 restrictions.

Reading Lists

• FIN2013's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• FIN2013's Timetable