Module: CAP5009-40 - Specialised Studio - Practice, Context & Theory

Level: 5

Credit Value: 40

Module Tutor: Roger Clarke

Module Tutor Contact Details: r.clarke@bathspa.ac.uk

Please note that in order to take this module you must have studied CAP5004-40 Specialised Studio Practice and Context.

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This is a 40 credit self-directed module that is designed to give you an opportunity to develop your practical and critical skills through sustained engagement within a specialised studio discipline chosen from one of the following areas: 2D, 3D, Graphic Arts or Mixed Media Textiles.

The module aims to continue to develop your practical and critical skills through the production of ambitious artworks in your chosen area of studio practice.

The module aims to provide you with the means to communicate, contextualise, critically evaluate and reflect on your practice more effectively, by extending your investigations into materials, methods and context, through the development of your understanding and identification of discipline specific theoretical research relevant to contemporary practice.

2.Outline syllabus

If you take this 40 credit module you will attend ONE of the following weekly contact sessions for your chosen specialist subject area: 2D, 3D, Graphic Arts, Mixed Media Textiles, Live Art.

By taking this module will be allocated extra weekly contact time specific to this module that will support you in producing your sustained body of work.

At the beginning of this module you will be asked to submit a 500 word written proposal outlining your intended area of sustained practice, investigation and research.

With the help of your tutor you will develop your proposal to align material investigation, methods, concepts and contextual frameworks to proposed studio practice outcomes.

The completed proposal will be submitted to tutors and a plan of study and research agreed for the semester.

You will then be expected to work independently in your area of practice, supported by specialist workshops, seminars, group critiques and individual tutorials.

Extra individual tutorials and seminars will help you identify areas of theoretical research relevant to your practice and critical and material enquiry.

You will continue to attend lectures by visiting artists from a variety of disciplines that will support your growing knowledge of materials, methods and ideas that relate to the establishment of a professional ethical and sustainable practice, and the presentation of artworks to an audience.

Course specific and school wide workshops and talks by staff and professionals from the university’s careers department will also continue to support your professional development and planning.

You will present your completed work at a studio-based exhibition. Discipline relevant supporting work will demonstrate investigative, experimental and theoretical enquiry through a reflective journal summarised by a critical self-evaluation of around 500 words.

Practical studio practice and supporting work should demonstrate 400 hours of study.

3.Teaching and learning activities

• Individual tutorial to develop negotiated self-directed study proposal.

• Independent study in studio spaces and workshops.

• Individual and group tutorials.

• Technical workshops.

• Extended contact time.

• Support in developing individual skills in chosen area of practice.

• Guidance on developing general and specific research skills.

• Guidance on developing presentation skills.

• Staff and student presentations and seminars.

• Lectures from visiting artists and professionals.

• Peer and self-evaluation appraisals.

• Reflective evaluation of personal progress.

• Year group meetings.

• Study trips.

• Weekly student led group activities.

Throughout the module staff will make you aware of opportunities to apply for external competitions, offsite exhibitions, group projects, public artworks and external workshops, that will help develop your practice and professionalism. Should you undertake one of these opportunities, you should inform your tutors and submit any discipline relevant research and work made for the project as part of your assessment.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Developmental and experimental work presented

• % Weighting: 80%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Contextual Folder

• % Weighting: 20%