Independent Creative & Professional Practice 1 module (DJ31011)

This studio module encourages you to expand on your explorations, investigations, and research acquired at Level 2 or equivalent. Through visual, critical, and research-led enquiry, you will develop a personal voice that focuses on the process of art production in a medium of your choice. For all students, the module will run alongside an expansive module, which will expand your range of capabilities and introduce you to a wide range of techniques and ideas.

You will be required to develop and maintain a practice that demonstrates the self-motivation and organisational skills required to successfully proceed to the next stages of the course.

In this module, you will produce a body of resolved work, a statement of practice, and show evidence of your research through supporting material in the form of sketchbooks and research notes, and an online reflective research journal.
Feedback on your progress will be through individual tutorials, group activities, and a group crit, as well as a formal assessment at the end of the semester.
 

At the beginning of the assessment week, you will make a short presentation of your work to your peers and the staff members assessing you. This is to develop your professional presentation skills. It will not be assessed itself.

What you will learn

In this module, you will:

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a deepened and expanded understanding of contexts for a sustained and independent practice
• Understand research and its relationship to contemporary practices
• Ability to evidence documentation of skills development and research processes
• Create and present a body of work evidencing some successful resolution
• Demonstrate the ability to deploy critical reflection

Engage with Professional Practice lecture series to build an understanding of the contemporary art landscape and existing external networks

Assignments / assessment

• studio presentation
• examination of supporting materials
• short artist's statement (500 words)
   

Assessment Criteria: 
 

• A substantial body of self-directed work that clearly demonstrates experimentation, investigation, and some successful resolution, as made evident in the main practice and supporting work (60% of total mark).
• The demonstration of successfully acquired and applied skills, enabling the clear communication of ideas and research through a discipline or disciplines of choice (15% of total mark).
• An understanding of the wider contexts for practice and research; evidence of an awareness of contemporary practice; exhibitions, screenings, and events and a broader cultural framework provided in the supporting work (15% of total mark).
• Evidence of an awareness of the issues and potential of presentation (10% of total mark).

This module does not have a final exam.

Teaching methods / timetable

Lectures, workshops, seminars and local study visits will support the studio work.

Fortnightly class meetings will be supplemented by dialogues with practising artists on ‘how artists think and make’. These events will be live in Lecture theatres.

Cross-year initiatives such as study visits and regular visiting speakers events will take place.