2022/23 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF0020 Studio Work (Materiality and Process)

40 creditsClass Size: 10

Module manager: Richard Bell
Email: R.D.Bell@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2022/23

Co-requisites

ARTF0010

Art and Cultural History

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This module will provide you with experience in fine art practice such that you are able to begin to develop your own creative and exploratory studio practice. Through a series of discrete projects, you will explore a range of media and processes, as well as begin to think critically and analytically by participating in group discussions about your work, and the work of your peers. You will also begin to develop an understanding of the wider landscape of contemporary art practice by engaging in lectures seminars and tutorials.

Objectives

The objective of this module is to ensure students are well prepared to join one of the School’s BA Fine Art, Cultural & Media Studies or History of Art programmes. It does this by providing students with a broad understanding of contemporary fine art practice through the development of their own studio work and the critical study of art practices in the contemporary art world. Lectures and seminars will expose students to a broad range of contextual media, and practical workshops will introduce students to basic 2D, 3D and digital processes.

Learning outcomes
You will develop:
1. an understanding of, and basic proficiency in, a range of 2D, 3D and digital media appropriate to the development of your own practice.
2. an ability to co-ordinate and communicate a range of critical, contextual and visual material, which will situate your practice within a contemporary global context.
3. the confidence and knowledge to be able to participate productively in seminar discussions.

Skills outcomes
• Drawing (in its widest sense)
• Painting
• Printmaking
• Photography (analogue and digital)
• Audio-visual
• 3D construction
• Casting

Syllabus

Students will work through a sequence of creative projects in order to develop a portfolio, appropriate for transition onto one of the BA Fine Art programmes.
Regular group meetings will help students formalize responses to projects introduced by tutors. In addition to this a rolling programme of medium-specific workshop teaching will be delivered throughout the module, with the module leader joined by other School Staff and outside specialists where appropriate. These workshop sessions will help identify appropriate modes of practice that will realise individual creative concerns.
Students will also engage with a series of lectures, seminars, studio crits, tutorials and visiting speakers throughout the module which contributes to the discussions around contemporary art practice.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	18	2.00	36.00
Seminars	6	2.00	12.00
Tutorials	4	0.50	2.00
Practicals	20	2.00	40.00
Fieldwork	6	2.00	12.00
Private study hours			298.00
Total Contact hours			102.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Project briefs set by tutors will require appropriate blocks of studio (120hrs) and workshop (40hrs) application by the students in addition to online, library and gallery/cinema research (138hrs) and deadlines calculated in relation to students’ overall workload. Medium-specific workshop teaching will be scheduled for periods where there is no timetabled teaching for this or co-requisite modules.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress is monitored through reviews of ongoing work via regular group meetings and and tutorials. Attendance registers for meetings, tutorials and workshop inductions are kept. The fact that each part of the module is delivered through 3 skills-based projects in each semester, each project lasting three weeks, provides a rhythm of projects through which progress can easily be monitored. The assessment which takes place after the first three projects at the end of Semester 1 (Portfolio 1) will provide both a summative point, but also a key formative moment to help shape students’ work in Semester 2 (Portfolio 2) in response to the marking and feedback of the first three projects.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Project	An illustrated, reflective commentary on the projects set and work produced in Semester 2 presented in a single pdf document. 500-750 words.	10.00
Project	An illustrated, reflective commentary on the projects set and work produced in Semester 2 presented in a single pdf document. 500-750 words.	10.00
Oral Presentation	A visual and verbal presentation about the students' individual work and its context will be given to the module group	0.00
Portfolio	Body of work produced in response to projects set in Semester 1	40.00
Portfolio	Body of work produced in response to projects set in Semester 2	40.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Verbal presentation (week 24) – students unable to attend the live presentation will be able to submit a typed equivalent transcript.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 04/08/2022

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