Studio Practice Courses are built around individually negotiated semester-long projects, based on the practice-led pedagogy employed by the School of Art. This course may be taken in any of the School's Workshops: Ceramics, Furniture, Glass, Gold and Silversmithing, Painting, Photography and Media Arts, Printmedia and Drawing, Sculpture and Textiles. This 18u course allows students to carry out a studio research project, define its contextual framework and critically reflect on and evaluate its outcomes.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Plan, manage and bring a substantial studio based research project to resolution

2. develop an experimental and analytical methodology  

3. Critically engage with relevant historical and theoretical debates

4. Evaluate  their own work and the work of others 

5. articulate an investigation's key concerns and contextual framework

Studio Practice Plan: 10% (due week 7, or end of week 1 of intensive mode) [LO 1,2]

Studio Practice Project: 70%  (due week 15, or end of intensive mode period) [LO 1,2,3]

Studio Journal and critical reflection: 20% (reflection: 2400 - 3000wds)  (due week 15, or 3 weeks after intensive mode period) [LO 4, 5]

The Critical Reflection analyses and evaluates the project and relates it to its contextual framework.

Studio Practice courses are conducted at the School of Art in the relevant Workshop studios, or at other locations by agreement between the student and the Course Convenor. Students are expected to spend up to 12 hours per week undertaking the approved Studio Practice project and attend relevant seminars and critiques as specified in each Workshop. Students are also expected to spend up to 18 hours per week on reading and research, visiting galleries or on other visual research.  

Intensive mode: Ceramics topic only

This is a three week intensive (14 day) program conducted at the Experimental Sculpture Factory in Jingdezhen, PRC. Craft Masters will conduct classes in a variety of traditional Chinese porcelain techniques including mould making, carving and modeling as well as decorative techniques including blue and white brushwork, tissue transfer, and overglaze enamel. Classes will be conducted in the mornings (4 hours) with the afternoons free for independent studio research, museum visits and other cultural excursions. A lecture series and workshop and museum visits cover historical and theoretical context.

Students are expected to have competence in the processes and techniques of the Workshop in which their project is situated, and a familiarity with Workshop tools and equipment.

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Students need access to a computer and the internet.  Students working off campus need a broadband connection (preferably) and a digital camera.

The progressive outcomes of the studio practice based courses are assessed by periodic critique plus mid-review sessions and end-of-semester presentation to an assessment panel. Critique sessions will provide advice on work in progress in response to approved projects, the mid-semester reviews will provide indicative advice on a student's achievement against the criteria, and the end of semester presentation will assess the final outcomes against the agreed requirements of course projects.