FNA3112 · Studio practices 6

Overview

This unit is the last and culminating unit in the Studio Practices sequence. In this unit emphasis is placed on independent investigation, and the development of the creative and expressive potential inherent in your work. Imagination combined with advanced conceptualisation and innovation in material manipulation should be manifest at this stage of your practice. You will develop an individual program in conjunction with the lecturers that reflect your personal direction and evolving art practice. The program focuses on clear articulation of concepts. Lecturers facilitate your own exploration, primarily through personal tuition where detailed analysis and discussion of your work takes place. Whilst providing a stimulating and supportive environment this unit provides a bridge between your experience in the supervised studio and a fully-fledged independent professional practice in the broader arts arena. The work produced culminates in an end of year exhibition of a professional standard, preparing you for entry into the professional world as a fine artist in the discipline of choice, or the pursuit of further studies at a higher level.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate strong self-reliance, and able to construct a program of work with a coherent direction which imaginatively addresses your own concerns;
2. Produce outcomes that display advanced skills, confidence and control in theoretical concepts and materials, and be able to isolate areas of your work that require further research and sustain a directed inquiry into these;
3. Demonstrate possession of a strong faculty and methodology for critical inquiry, enabling you to question and discuss the issues relevant to current theory and practice in your chosen field of fine art and in broader art practice;
4. Approach contemporary art practice and aesthetics with challenge and vigour, and be able to establish a personalised and informed discourse within the context of fine art practice;
5. Achieve a professional presentation and documentation of works in the final submission of your completed folio.

Workload

24 hours per week including 8 contact hours plus 16 hours of independent study and studio practice.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.