Module manager: Dr Jo McGonigal
Email: j.mcgonigal@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
N/A
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module supports a sustained period of practice development, enabling you to engage with playful and risk-taking approaches to a broad range of materials and methods. You will be encouraged to draw on various research resources to enrich your developing practice. This can include museum collections and exhibition sources, archives, or site visits. Through group work in the studio, technical and creative workshops, talks and field trips you will be encouraged to develop artwork that reflects your research interests and locates your work within the contextual framework of contemporary art practice.
The Developing Practice module supports the development of an independent art practice and accompanying skills in research. It facilitates connections with research resources, spaces and contexts that can support and sustain your art practice.
The studio environment and access to technical workshops enables you to undertake speculative approaches to making, experimenting with a range of materials and technical processes. Opportunities to present work individually and in groups further develops considerations of space, display and dissemination. Professional Practice sessions offer insight into the arts ecology of the city and the region, and the wider social and cultural contexts that art operates within.
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:
1. Experiment and innovate with a range of technical making skills to produce a body of work
2. Identify social and cultural contexts that can inform contemporary art practice and recognise the range of opportunities for artistic practice in the city and region.
3. Critically locate your work within the framework of contemporary art practice by engaging with a processes of research
4. Effectively present your developing position as an artist through modes of display and dissemination with a growing awareness of space and audience.
5. Conveying and receive information clearly and appropriately and in response to different audiences and respecting diverse positions.
6. Use information and perspectives from a range of sources to inform decision making in the context of a developing art practice.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Practicals | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| Fieldwork | 1 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| Lecture | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Seminar | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| Seminar | 20 | 2 | 40 |
| Private study hours | 331 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 69 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 400 | ||
Student progress is monitored through individual and group feedback in the context of studio groups, and the exhibition/display of practical work.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Portfolio | 90 |
| Coursework | Written work | 10 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 16/05/2025
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