School of English
Module manager: Sarah Perry
Email: s.k.perry@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
An Artist Residency, in which an artist spends time responding to and engaging with a specific locale, is a staple of the creative industries, across all art forms. This module offers students the opportunity to conceptualise their own residency and carry out related creative work. Drawing on field trips to places and/or organisations where a residency might be a rich and exemplary model of creative practice, and learning from existing outputs made on Artists’ Residencies, this module provides opportunities to develop creative and critical skills linked to an important mode of professional practice, framing students as Artists-in-Residence. Please note this is an optional module and runs subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose this module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
On this module, you will develop your creative practice by exploring an important practice in the contemporary artist’s repertoire: a Residency. Through facilitated field trips, you will explore the possibilities of an Artist Residency and develop understanding of their contexts and practices, including the role of partner organisations. As writers, theatre-makers, or interdisciplinary practitioners, you will explore how and why artists incorporate creative, ethical, reciprocal, and site-responsive elements in Residency undertakings. Through selected readings and facilitated discussion, you will develop an understanding of what products and experiences might emerge from a Residency. Creative tasks will provide opportunities for you to explore all this in practice, developing practical understanding of creative practice relevant to a range of contexts and environments.
Your assessment brief will allow you to explore a specific environment or context in-depth, supporting sector-facing skills and knowledge, and to further develop your own creative work.
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
1. Reflect critically on residency practices, including relationships to site, context, people and politics. 2. Identify and apply key critical and conceptual themes, including the relational and ethical dynamics of artist residencies.
3. Produce creative work, in response to the host people and / or place.
On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
4. Reflect on and develop one’s own creative practice and critical perspectives in response to feedback (Academic Skills).
5. Write critically and reflectively on the process and outcomes associated with this field of work (Academic Skills).
6. Plan and deliver site-responsive creative work in the mode of an artist residency (Professional Skills).
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fieldwork | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| Seminar | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| Private study hours | 176 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 24 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Formative feedback will be offered during seminars.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Residency Proposal | 50 |
| Coursework | One creative submission: poetry equivalent performance, or another creative discipline. | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Resits will be offered in the same format and will not be negatively affected by being held at a different time.
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Last updated: 16/07/2025
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