Faculty: Arts Design and Media

School: Art

Module Title: Developing Practice

Programme(s) on which the module is delivered: BA(Hons) Fine Art
Date of publication of template to students: 22th September 2015
Module Code: ART5020

Level 5

Credit value: 45-Credits

ECTS Credit value: 22.5 credits
Module Leader: Jennifer Wright
Module start date(s) during the current academic year:
21st September 2015
Module finish date(s) during the current academic year:
25th January 2016
Assessment weighting: 100%

Relationship with Programme Philosophy and Aims

Through an extended and sustained period of experimentation and exploration, the module
develops critical, conceptual and manipulative skills in relation to an individual fine art practice
Opportunities for collaboration, external projects and placements broaden knowledge and
understanding of further strategies for practice and development across a range of professional
environments
Indicative content
This 14-week studio practice module enables you to build upon the technical, practical,
analytical, and research skills introduced in Level 4. It provides the opportunity to reflect upon
your prior approaches to art practice (related to historical precedents and contemporary art
practice), and to further explore methods and materials related to meaning and context.
It also offers the opportunity of for collaboration and external projects and placements.
Study mode / delivery method(s):
Core module. Level 5 students located alongside Level 6 students in the studios. Individual
tutorials, group critiques, presentations and field study visits.
Intended Learning Outcomes and the means by which they are to be achieved
and demonstrated.

On successful completion of the module you will be able to:

Learning Outcome

Learning and Teaching Methods

1. through imaginative and speculative

exploration, apply further
developments in your knowledge and
understanding of processes, methods
and materials
2. articulate thinking and ideas in
relation to broadening a range of
practical and contextual research,
including optional external projects
and placements

Studio and workshop practice, lectures,

individual tutorials and group critiques,
exhibition presentations, field study,
Personal Development and Planning
(PDP) using Statement so Intent and
Self-Appraisals forms
Optional work placement or external
projects

3. apply analytical, critical and

reflective skills in the development of a
body of work
4. apply developments in your range
of technical, practical and manipulative
skills appropriate to your ideas and
concepts
Breakdown of study time1:
Scheduled learning and teaching activities
Guided independent learning
Placement/study abroad

30%
70%
0%

Assessment and feedback

Summative Assessment
You will be required to present practical work and task specific contextual research in the form
of a reflective journal.
Work presented for assessment should demonstrate the extent to which you have successfully
fulfilled the learning outcomes.
What you need to know about the number of assessment attempts you have.
At the first assessment attempt, the full range of marks is available.
At the re-sit attempt, which is also your final attempt, the mark is capped. The maximum mark
that can be achieved is 40%
Support Available for Re-Assessment
You will be contacted by the module tutor and a tutorial support session will be arranged to
ensure that you have the strongest chance of passing your final attempt at the module

Breakdown of summative assessment methods2:

Written exams:
Practical exams:
Coursework:

0%
0%
100%

Formative Assessment
On-going formative assessments through individual tutorials and group critiques

Feedback
Written and verbal feedback.

Related Modules
L/4 Establishing Practice
L/5 Art, Space and Audience
L/5 Art in Theory and Writing
L/5 Extending Practice

Learning Resource
Indicative Reading
Digital and Analogue Translations:
Bourriaud, N., 2005. Postproduction: Culture As Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World.
New York: Lukas and Sternberg.
Plant, S., 1998. Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. London: Fourth
Estate.
Ballard, J. G., 2001. Vermilion Sands. London: Vintage.
Poesis: The Poetics of Stuff:
Doty, M. 2002. Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy. Boston: Beacon
Press.
Heidegger, M., The Thing, in: Heidegger, M., 2001. Poetry, Language, Thought. London:
Harper Perennial.
Thoreau, H. D., 1995. Walden: Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Dover Thrift Editions.
Waal E. de, 2011. The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance. London: Vintage.
Space and the Moving Image:
Bachelard, G., 1992. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press.
Lefebvre, H., 1991. The Production of Space. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Calvino, I., 2009. Invisible Cities. London: Vintage.
The Power of Colour:
Batchelor, D., 2006. Colour (Documents of Contemporary Art). London: The Whitechapel
Gallery and MIT Press.
Batchelor, D., 2000. Chromophobia. London: Reaktion Books.
Groys, B., 2008. Art Power. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Caught Between Mediums: Painting as a Multi-disciplinary Practice:
2

Bois, Y-A., 1993. Painting as Model. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

Phaidon (eds), 2011. Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon.
Bernhard, T., 2010. Old Masters. London: Penguin.
The Illusion of Light in Art:
Kulturbetriebe, U. and Sinnreich, U., 2009. James Turrell: Geometry of Light. Berlin: Hatje
Cantz.
Causing Trouble: The Art of Provocation:
Butler, J., 2006. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. London: Routledge.
Waters, J., 2005. Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste. Avlon Group.
Bataille, G., 2001. Story of the Eye: By Lord Auch. London: Penguin.
Art and the Everyday:
Certeau, M. de., 2011. The Practice of Everyday Life. California: University of California Press.
Kaprow, A., 2003. Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. California: University of California
Press.
Johnstone, S.,2008. The Everyday (Documents of Contemporary Art). London: The
Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press.
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