Module manager: Dr Moyra Derby
Email: M.E.Derby@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
Semester 1 of ARTF2040
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module supports you in developing your practice in the context of a community of artists, building on and critically applying knowledge and skills from Level 1 to pursue individual or collaborative ways of working. You are located in studio-based research groups to promote a discursive and research rich approach to practice development. Reflective presentation formats will help define and communicate your own artistic voice and context. Access to technical workshops will support creative innovation through processes and techniques of making. As ‘Defining Your Practice’ leads into ‘Practice into Public Contexts’ you will begin to consider how your developing work might be defined in relation to space, context and audience.
Defining Your Practice aims to build upon and critically apply skills developed in previous practice-based modules to further develop independence and initiative to self-manage a creative practice.
The studio-based research groups support peer to peer learning, with opportunities to discuss your work in progress through a range of formats, and to experiment with and evaluate modes of distribution and presentation. They provide a framework for extending your understanding of the diverse methods and strategies employed by artists, and the complex contexts and histories that inform contemporary art practice.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1: Apply extended practical, conceptual, and technical skills, including skills in selection and editing to effectively consolidate your art practice.
2: Locate your art practice within public contexts through an awareness of and sensitivity to the complexity and diversity of social, and cultural contexts, sites and communities.
3: Develop your practice through a research informed approach to art’s relationship to public contexts.
4: Effectively communicate and professionally present an informed position for your practice in relation to space and audience through curation, exhibition and dissemination skills
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
5: Produce practice-based outcomes and supporting research that demonstrate experimental and imaginative approaches.
6: Demonstrate self-awareness and awareness of others to reflect on and communicate your ideas effectively and responsively, to build a constructive and cooperative studio environments and support network.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 1 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Fieldwork | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Lecture | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Practical | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Practical | 6 | 2.5 | 15 |
| Seminar | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Private study hours | 169.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 30.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
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 | 100 |
| 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: 26/09/2025
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