VH2T026 - Art Practice 2 Create 15 Mar 2017 - 01 Sep 2026 | Version 1

Associated Module Information

Module Code: VH2T026
Module Title: Art Practice 2 Create
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Music and Drama
Faculty Sub Group: Drama
Module Leader: Christopher Nurse
Module Team:
First Intended Intake: SEP 2017 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 60 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 101361 - creative arts and design
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 1
Valid From 15 Mar 2017
Valid To 01 Sep 2026

Module Aims

Develop practical skills in the preparation, organizing, administration, marketing, installation, networking, and other essential vocational practices necessary when operating as a professional artist.

Develop initiative, individual and imaginative approaches to media, methods and processes employed in the scope of a vocational project.

Professionally exhibit and market work, in a commercial gallery, in the Welsh arts community.

Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between personal practice and specialism within a wider professional, historical and contemporary context.

Content Summary

The module is divided into 3 Projects

Working from the Model (term 1)
You will examine principles of measurement and proportion, defining the figure using line and tone, experimenting with viewpoints and environmental contexts and exploring notions such as the naked and the nude, the gaze or the body in fragments. Such studies will be complemented and informed by independent research into the work of other artists, their approaches and agendas in depicting the model and the body.

Museum Project (term 1/2)
You will structure, organise and manage a personal line of enquiry in your choice of disciplines in conjunction with visits and researches conducted in public museums or art galleries, their objects, artefacts and curatorial policies and artist interventions. You will develop knowledge and understanding of the context of display integral to the creative process and consideration of the final outcome.

Self-directed: (term 2/3)
You will be required to produce a body of artwork completed through self-directed study, which will be professionally exhibited in a public or commercial gallery. The project requires you to write an Art Practice Proposal, describing aims, objectives, primary and secondary sources, relevant context, research methods and technical programme. You will be required to develop an innovative and experimental line of investigation that utilises and explores numerous construction and application techniques within the creative discipline.
You will evidence a thorough investigation and interrogation of both historical and contemporary sources relevant to the chosen themes and curation as artistic endeavour.

You are required to record and reflect on the creative process, secondary research and on the outcomes from the 3 projects through a professionally presented and illustrated weblog.

You will give a Powerpoint presentation on a selected topic relevant to methods and contexts of museum and gallery display

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 8
Seminar 24
Tutorial 4
Practical classes and workshops 42
Supervised time in studio/workshop 36
External visits 18
Independent Study 260
Directed Study 208
Total Hours Selected 600

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Work independently, creatively and critically, with knowledge and understanding on negotiated and self-directed programmes of study with a view to developing imaginative, approaches to practice.
LO2 Demonstrate evidence of organisational skills and time management in the context of roles appropriate to professional practice in the creative industries
LO3 Critically appraise forms and methods of display/installation and apply knowledge and experience of this to individual; practice, exhibition curation and professional practice.
LO4 Acquire and develop skills in specific materials and processes applied within individual practice.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Practical Coursework 2 (Asynch) Project output 2: Display of art work accompanied by visual journal 0 N/A 20 No 40
Asynchronous Assessment Visual Journal 1 N/a 0 N/A 20 No 40
Synchronous Onsite Oral Assessment Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1 Verbal presentation to the group concerning experiences on work placements and museum project 15 N/A 10 No 40
Asynchronous Assessment Practical Coursework 1 (Asynch) Online blog containing critical evaluation of primary and secondary sources, creative process and project outcomes 0 N/A 15 No 40
Synchronous Onsite Practical Assessment Practical Coursework (Onsite) 3 Project output 3: Exhibition of art work accompanied by visual journal 0 N/A 35 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4
Practical Coursework 2 (Asynch)
Visual Journal 1
Presentation (Synchronous Onsite) 1
Practical Coursework 1 (Asynch)
Practical Coursework (Onsite) 3

Reading List

Any of the titles relevant to individual students interests in the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series (2006-2017)

Barker, E. (1999) Contemporary Cultures of Display. The Open University.

Bishop, C. (2005) Installation Art. Tate.

Bourriaud, N. (2002) Relational Aesthetics. Les Presses du Reel.

Collin,s J. (2007) Sculpture Today. Phaidon.

Crow, T. (1998) Modern Art in the Common Culture. Yale University Press

Degen, N. (2013) The Market. MIT & Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Dexter E. (2005) Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Phaidon.

Doherty, C, (2004) Contemporary Art from Studio to Situation. Black Dog

Forty, A. (1998) Objects of Desire. Thames & Hudson.

Godfrey, T. (2009) Painting Today. Phaidon

Goldberg, R. (2011) Performance Art. Thames & Hudson.

Gottsegen, M. (2006) The Painters Handbook. Watson Guptill.

Hindle, Y. and Seymour, P. (2001) Paint Theory, Paint Practice: Materials and Methodologies within Contemporary Painting Practice. Lee

Hoffmann, J. (2012) The Studio. MIT & Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Kester, G. (2004) Conversation Pieces. California University Press

Kester, G (2011) The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Duke University Press

Meyer, J. (2010) Minimalism. Phaidon.

Morphet & Rosenblum (2000) Encounters: New Art from Old. National Gallery

Moussa Spring, J. (2015) Unexpected Art: Serendipitous installations, Site Specific Works and Surprising Interventions. Chronicle.

O'Doherty, B. (2000) Inside the White Cube: the Ideology of the Gallery Space. Lapis.

O’Neil, P. (2012) The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture. MIT.

Putnam, J, Art & Artifact: The Museum of Medium. Thames & Hudson 2002

Reckitt, H. and Phelan, P. (2012) Art & Feminism (Themes & Movements). Phaidon.

Schwabsky B. (2011) Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. Phaidon.

Weintraub, L. (2003) Making Contemporary Art: How Today's Artists Think and Work. Thames & Hudson

Wilson, A. (2016) Conceptual Art in Britain. Tate.

Journals:
• Artists Newsletter
• Art Monthly
• Art Review
• Ceramic Review
• Ceramics International
• Crafts
• Creative Review
• Flash Artonline.com
• Icon
• Modern Painters
• Raw Art

Websites:
• http://arthistoryresources.net/ARTHLinks.html - Access to journals, websites, databases, information for art
• http://search.it.online.fr/covers/
• International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology
• Tate Gallery
• The British Museum
• Victoria and Albert Museum
• National Gallery
• MOMA
• The Met
• Saatchi
• Arts Council of Wales
• Crafts Council

LRC website databases:
• OPAC
• Subject Guidelines
• Search the Internet
• Current Awareness
• BoB (Box of Broadcasts)
• e books
• e newspapers
Google scholar