module specification

The FA7P01 Major Art Project module frames the culmination of your output on the MFA Fine Art or the MA Public Art and Performance, enabling you to balance creative and intellectual ambition with the rigours of professional practice and academic research expectations.

The focus of the FA7P01 Major Art Project module is the production of a major body of work that has evolved from a project proposal in the FA7056 Art Project Development module. The FA7P01 Major Art Project module is based upon a concurrent or prior programme of research and contextually informed practice and practice-based enquiry at an advanced level in the FA7053 Critical Discourse & Analysis for Art Practice module.

This module supports the evolution of your subject-specific and professional expertise and develops a sustainable practice for the external fields of art research and art engagement. You will build upon previous projects, processes and explorations and continue to contextualise their work through presentations, tutorials and group critiques.

The outcome of FA7P01 Major Art Project is intended be a significant body of work that will enable you successfully to progress your career.

The module aims to:

• empower you to achieve or exceed your ambitions and to develop and display the creative skills and confidence required to go on to further study of art and/or to professional art practice;
• enable you to complete and so realise in group art exhibition a major art project from a proposal planned and developed earlier in the course
• provide you with the necessary evaluative skills to tackle the challenges and demands of the changing nature of art;
• open up to you a prime opportunity to work responsively and responsibly in a team with other artists, organising an art exhibition open to the public;
• encourage you to engage with other artists in dialogue, idea exchange, art experimentation, heuristic learning and professional practice.

The overall aim of the module is to provide you with the opportunity to expand your practice by realising a major self-initiated and self-directed professional project. It aims to equip you with the knowledge and the practical, theoretical and conceptual skills and competencies required to function effectively as a professional within the art sector. It is based on the preliminary project work undertaken in other modules and provides you with a focused period of time to pursue your professional aims.

MFA Fine Arts:
FA7053 Critical Discourse & Analysis for Art Practice
FA7054 Sustainable Art Practice
FA7055 Collective Art Practice
FA7056 Art Project Development
must have been completed and passed prior to commencement of this module.

MA Public Art and Performance:
FA7053 Critical Discourse & Analysis for Art Practice is a pre-requisite and must be completed and passed prior to commencement of this module

Available for Study Abroad? NO

The FA7P01 Major Art Project module will open in Week 1 with an explanation of the learning outcomes, how the syllabus will deliver those outcomes and how the outcomes will be measured (assessed). In Week 2 there will be a session on art project management (LO 2). Weeks 3-5 will feature group tuition in managing art display space and professional art presentation (LO 1). In Weeks 6 and 11, there will be sessions on final evaluation of art project (LO 3). Weeks 7-12 will be spent in collaboration, preparing the art exhibition site in build and installation (LO 4). Across Weeks 3-12, part of each session will be for the exhibitor team to workshop and deliver the organisation of an art event associated with, and running parallel to, the exhibition (LO 5).

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 FA7P01 Major Art Project module you are expected to:

1. show the confidence and ambition to locate and present major project artwork to the general public at a Masters' level art exhibition in a professionally recognised context and to professionally recognised standards;

2. plan, execute and record an ambitious and innovative postgraduate-level art project, managing time, tasks and relationships;

3. evaluate with realism and insight the progress in, as well as the achievement and success of, the completed major art project, suggesting revisions, improvements and new priorities;

4. contribute as a participative member of an art team towards final exhibition, acknowledging all colleagues' work potential, negotiating exhibition task allocations and helping other exhibitors;

5. devise and implement in a team an art event, discussion or talk in connection with exhibition of all the major art project works on display.

The summative assessment of the final postgraduate project module FA7P01 Major Art Project (ie, an Art & Design project in place of the usual dissertation or thesis in the final module of Masters’ courses of written output only) will be the realisation of a body of art work in a medium and format appropriate to art’s conventions and developed as a major art project, commensurate with the expected output of Fine Art postgraduates completing Level 7 of a Masters’ degree, according to Part A of the Frameworks of Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies (October 2014), and presented to professional standards in an art exhibition to the general public (LOs 1,2 and 3), in conjunction with an associated or subsidiary art event, devised and organised by a team of all the art exhibitors (LO 5). The major art project work is also to be evaluated by the student in documentation after its completion and display in an Evaluative Report, 2,000 words. (LO 4).

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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