Module: CAP6002-20 Graphic Arts Individual Studio Practice

Level: 6

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Matthew Robertson

Module Tutor Contact Details: M.Robertson@bathspa.ac.uk

Please note that in order to take this module you must have studied CAP5007-20  Graphic Arts - Practice, Context & Theory. 

Please also note that this module is a pre-requisite for CAP6007-20 Graphic Arts Individual Studio Practice - Final Exhibition. 

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module aims to enable you to realise a sustained and independent method of working within the graphic arts discipline.

By supporting you through a range of teaching and learning activities you will be encouraged to apply your knowledge of your discipline to the production and display of an ambitious and speculative body of (individual or collaborative) graphic arts work.

Creative risk taking, detailed contextual research, and integrated theoretical understanding will inform the evaluation of your experimental material investigations.

Critical reflection of your practice will be essential in developing a strategy to effectively manage and communicate your intentions.

2.Outline syllabus

This module will enable you to generate a sustained body of graphic arts work that is investigative and ambitious in its scope.

An extended tutorial at the beginning of the module will support you in developing a manifesto of practice, enquiry and research that will culminate in a speculative body of individual or collaborative graphic arts work. This document will be expected to change and develop as your practice progresses.

Integration of detailed theoretical, ethical and contextual awareness with practical methodology will become central in developing your ability to resolve problems and make informed decisions relating to your graphic artworks.

You will be expected to make full use of technical workshops and technical demonstrators to facilitate your making and your material research.

Experimentation, risk taking, critical and evaluative reflection will be encouraged through tutorials, peer critique and visual and verbal presentations.

Group tutorials, presentations and discussions are central to level 6 study and your engagement in this peer learning is seen as essential to the development of a supportive, collaborative and vibrant studio community.        

Your ability to manage and engage with your practice will become increasingly important as the module progresses.

The module will culminate in an exhibition in your studio that will enable you to test and critically evaluate how your methods of display or publication impact on your audiences experience and engagement with your practice.

Lectures by visiting artists from a range of disciplines, alongside talks and workshops from career development professionals, will offer advice and information that will continue your engagement with the development and acquisition of your professional skills and knowledge. 

A symposium and workshops with invited alumni from a range of disciplines will offer the opportunity for you to see how the career paths previous graduates from the field of art have developed.  The symposium will culminate in an open and informative discussion of their experiences.

The studio exhibition of your graphic artworks and supporting work should demonstrate 200 hours of study.

3.Teaching and learning activities

Individual tutorial to develop manifesto of self-directed study.

Independent study in studio spaces and workshops.

Individual and peer group tutorials.

Technical workshops.

Support in extending individual skills in chosen area of practice.

Support in extending general and specific research skills.

Support in extending 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.

Students wishing to collaborate on the production of a body of work should negotiate with their tutors a means to clearly identify their input, role and responsibilities within the collaborative project.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description:  Presentation of selected graphic artworks and supporting materials to tutors in studio space in the form of an extended tutorial 

• % Weighting: 80%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Visual and verbal group presentation demonstrating integration of theory and practice

• % Weighting: 20%