This Fine Art and Photography module will extend the outcomes of your summer project and will require you to explore your emerging context and related research interests through both practice and theory. Your Fine Art or Photography concerns and interests will therefore be negotiated through, and exemplified in a 4000 word essay, whilst your practice will feature in a public exhibition of work in progress towards the end of the module.

The work that you produce for your summer project will inform a position relating to the things you are interested in, allowing you to examine content, context, form and agenda. Thus you will have explored possibilities in terms of your approaches to your own Fine Art or Photographic practice in the third year. At the start of this module you will be in a good position to outline your thinking, your aspirations and ambitions for your independent practice and the possible directions you see it taking. Through studio based tutorials you will be tasked with extending these possibilities, examining them through active practice and a suitably critical discussion, with the resultant work being exhibited and assessed in an interim exhibition near the conclusion of the module. 

This module and the interim exhibition sees you developing autonomous approaches relating to your practice with associated feedback and feed-forward promoting support for further independent practice in subsequent L6 modules. 

This module will therefore see you setting, activating, speculating on, and experimenting with a position that will define you as an artist or photographer as you plan forwards to your degree show exhibition.

During this module you will research and formulate a Career Development Plan, which draws on your Level 5 placement experience, and outlines your ambitions and aspirations as you move towards graduation and beyond. This plan will help you conceive and design the way in which your practice is disseminated through ‘promotional’ materials and artefacts, and how your programme based experience can enhance your employability both directly and via transferable skills. Such materials will facilitate and extend networks for employability, independent practice, community or socially engaged practices, commissions, sales, or a combination thereof. Your promotional materials and artefacts will collate, parallel, complement or function as a subsidiary dimension of your practice as a body of work, defining your distinct visual identity and direction.

Your practice based modules will see you developing, making and delivering your practice, ultimately in a degree show. This module will support strategies for the broader dissemination of that work to an audience and afford you an opportunity to consider your trajectory both towards and beyond graduation. 

This module is the midway point in the development of your Studio Practice, between the interim exhibition and your final degree show. Building on previous speculative visual research and related feedback you will propose, make and reflect on studio based strategies and outcomes that continue to confirm and consolidate your artistic position. 

You will maintain a speculative mindset and have an open dialogue with your practice whilst your ideas, conceptual and contextual understanding, your handling and manipulation of materials become increasingly focused on negotiated and considered visual outcomes.

This module marks the culmination of your undergraduate Studio Practice. Your increasingly focussed and strategic visual research will see you propose and present a professional level exhibition that takes account of earlier positions, visual speculation and your interests in terms of ideas and concepts.

Whilst your studio practice is at the forefront of the module you will also take account of curatorial strategies, collaboration with others, exhibition professionalism and dissemination of your work through timely, relevant and appropriate media. The simultaneous module Audiences, Networks & Professions will support your Studio Practice affording you a platform for that wider dissemination of your work through strategies including, for example, Degree Show branding, editions and multiples, social media and web-based opportunities and consideration of your audience. You will be making your work and also considering how it, and your broader skill set mesh with graduate and professional opportunities at the point of graduation.