Module manager: Dr Jo McGonigal
Email: j.mcgonigal@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
ARTF1051 ARTF1019 Professional Practice.
This module is not approved as a discovery module
In this module you will engage with playful and risk taking approaches to a broad range of materials within a fine art practice. Through group work in the studio, technical and creative workshops, visiting speakers talks and field trips you will develop art work that reflects your research interests and locates your work in a contextual framework of fine art contemporary practice. Through this you will also develop insight into the ats ecology within the city and the region.
On completion of the module students will have demonstrated playful and risk taking approaches to a broad range of materials within a fine art practice. They will have attained a broad range of technical skills across a variety of media to support their development as independent artists.
On successful completion of the module syou will be able to:
1. Produce art work that expresses experimentation, innovation and creative risk-taking.
2. Produce art work that reflects your research interests and locates your work in a contextual framework of fine art contemporary practice.
3. Employ a range of technical making skills in order to produce a body of artwork.
4. Recognise the opportunities for artistic practice in the city and region.
Skills learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5. Communication and presentational skills appropriate to a broad range of environments including academic and creative professional contexts.
6. The skills, values and ethical practices necessary to contribute to group enterprises.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 5 | 0.5 | 2.5 |
| Group Project | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Lectures | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| presentation | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| seminars | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| seminars | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| seminars | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Rotations of 13 day blocks | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Practicals | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Fieldwork | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Private study hours | 315.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 84.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 400 | ||
Student progress is monitored through regular group reviews via:
1-to-1 tutorials (6 per module) ;
Group Engagement;
Exhibition/display of practical work;
Feedback presentations.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Portfolio | 90 |
| Coursework | Written | 10 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 8/23/2024
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