module specification

The focus of the FA7056 Art Project Development module is the development of a personal art practice that establishes the basis for your output in your major art project, which will be developed into a substantial body of work for public presentation (if appropriate).

You will be expected to propose and test out a range of art propositions to identify and develop your art practice. You will explore approaches to work through technical and conceptual explorations, contextualising your art practice in group presentations, seminars and discussions. You will be encouraged to participate in outward-facing art activities, such as exhibitions, talks, workshops and live projects, which will enable you to understand through direct experience some of the complexities of the social and cultural functions related to your field of art study.

You will be encouraged to understand your work in the contexts of contemporary networks with opportunities for a presentation and reception of research and practice outcomes. The development undertaken in this module will make use of the learning achieved in the concurrent (or for part-time students, prior) module FA7053 Critical Discourse & Analysis for Art Practice.

The aims of the FA7056 Art Project Development module are for you to:

• explore and question art conventions and set your own agenda as an artist
• identify your art ambitions in demonstrating the skills and ideas required to propose and complete a significant art project for exhibition
• develop the ability to write a professional art project proposal for exhibition
• acquire the necessary self-reflective skills to tackle the challenges and demands of a contemporary art practice

The overall aim of the module is to support you to acquire or enhance the necessary conceptual, professional and practical skills to develop your art practice towards completion of an ambitious major art project by the end of the course.

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Available for Study Abroad? NO

The syllabus will begin with an explanation of the FA705 Art Project Development module’s aims, learning outcomes and assessments. Early on, there will be a session on what is expected of the artist sketchbook(s)as a coursework in art project development – regular handwritten reflection on the project as it develops and evaluation of its achievements, alongside drawing studies, visualisations, plans and observations for the art project (LO1 and LO4) as it develops over the 24 weeks. Between Weeks 1 and 9, the module will offer four sessions on written art project proposal – outline, structure, context and proposed research, and how to set out proposed artwork and display materials, costs and making timeline (LO3). From Week 10 until Week 24, focus will be on realising and/or building on or away from the submitted art project proposal in regular development via tutorial and group critique, as well as written and visual record of art studio practice in artist sketchbook (LO1 and LO2). Also in Weeks 10, 14, 18 and 20, sessions will be offered on recording written self-reflection as an artist in artist sketchbook (LO4).

Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.

In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.

Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Reflective learning is promoted through interim formative feedback points that ask students to reflect on their progress, receive help where they identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes and make recommendations to themselves for future development. Throughout the module, students build a body of work, including written reflections on progress and achievement.

The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.

By the end of the FA7056 Art Project Development module, you will:

1. reflect on and evaluate art’s conventions in your own artworks, establishing a set of principles on which to build and develop a major art project;
2. develop an art project proposal from inception to completion, outlining its ambitions and evincing an advanced and professional creative response to complex self-set and/or external art practice problems;
3. acquire professional skills in writing art project proposals;
4. demonstrate regular self-reflection in development of an art project.

Assessment in this module will be based on two coursework submissions for summative assessment:

1. an art project proposal (LOs 2 and 3), proposing the major art project for development over the course of the year, with a view to project completion in module FA7P01 Major Art Project

2. An artist sketchbook (or sketchbooks), demonstrating the development of the proposed art project from the actual point of proposal (LOs 1 and 4).

The first coursework (Art Project Proposal) will be submitted early in the module as a summative assessment only. The submission is specifically timed to facilitate in this module the later development of the art project itself from the earlier project proposal.

The second coursework (Artist’s Sketchbook) will be developed in a cumulative way for the rest of the module, recording visually and verbally (reflection and evaluation) the art project as it develops, to be handed-in for summative assessment at the end of the module.

Assessors will use the published table of grade descriptors and assessment criteria to mark your contribution, to a moderated marking scheme as set out in the module’s virtual learning environment (Weblearn) and in accordance with the University’s Academic Regulations.

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