Module Identifier AR30130  
Module Title EXHIBITION 1: GRADUATION SHOW  
Academic Year 2002/2003  
Co-ordinator Professor John Harvey  
Semester Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)  
Other staff Mr Christopher P Webster, Mr Paul J Croft, Mr Robert K Meyrick, Mr Simon J Pierse  
Course delivery Seminars / Tutorials   2 Hours Seminar.  
  Seminars / Tutorials   11 Hours Tutorial.  
  Practical   110 Hours  
Assessment Semester Assessment   Exhibition Work:   100%  

Brief description

Module Identifier: AR30100/30

Module Title: EXHIBITION 1: GRADUATION SHOW

Academic Year: 2002/3

Co-ordinator: John Harvey

Other Staff: Paul Croft, Robert Meyrick, Simon Pierse, Chris Webster

Semester:   1-2

Course Delivery: Lectures: 0
Seminars: 0
Tutorials: 11 x 1/2 hrs
   Practicals: 22 x 13 hrs
   Workshops: 0 hr

Assessment   Exhibition and Portfolio of supplementary work:   100%

Brief Description
The module represents the pinnacle of student achievement over three years of study. Within the context of an exhibition, the module allows you to demonstrate the maturation of both their prescribed and self-directed. The expectation, therefore, is that the works will represent your best and most decisive effort. The module concludes and the programme of self-originated projects developed in Semester 1 of Level 3, and consolidates its skill-, subject-, and conceptual-bases. Thus, the work produced for exhibition ought to reflect a high degree of technical resolution, material soundness, and fitness for purpose. Likewise, the subject matter and conception of the work should be not only appropriately reconciled with the technical and material aspect, but also provide evidence of a single-minded commitment to a field of study. Further to this, evidence of a personal statement will be looked for, being the ability to mould technique and subject matter according to a individual expressive vision. You are required to produce a continuity of works of this character designed to fit a given space and to form a public exhibition. In this respect, you are challenged to consider ways in which the works might communicate meaning and significance within the public domain. You are also asked to objectify and articulate the criterion by which the works have been selected for exhibition. Within the context of the tutorials, you are further encouraged to consider your own position in relation to contemporary culture and to the historical and contemporary art practice. This is with a view to cultivating a sense of the works’ relevance to a sphere outside the immediate and personal experience of the student. However, it is not presumed that the works will necessarily be pertinent to anyone other than yourself. Likewise, you should feel no compunction to associate with contemporary art. Nevertheless, you are required to understand and justify why you have chosen to remain outside this sphere.

Accompanying the Graduate Show is a catalogue of student work. As part of this module you will be asked to design your page of the catalogue. (The content can be adapted from the statement produced for Research and Process in Practice.) This entails determining an image and text for reproduction and fitting both within a prescribed format. You will also be required to produce captions and labels for the show to a professional standard (The format for all accessory components will be communicated to you during Semester 2).

Syllabus
While this is a thin module, the main body of the exhibition need not be begun within the 11 teaching weeks of Semester 1. During this semester you will be developing subject matter, ideas, skills, and techniques in the context of the Portfolio module and, possibly, the Professional Practice 2 and Research and Process in Practice modules. In delaying the final execution of exhibitable works to the period beginning the Christmas vacation, they will stand to benefit more from the experiment-, research-, and process-based operations in Semester 1. This is only a suggestion. You should view the possibility within the context of the whole range of modules, which you are pursuing, and in consultation with your tutor.

In Semester 1 all students should become familiar with the context of the exhibition (in terms of size and space), the technique of hanging (and its implications for the construction and presentation of works), and lighting. Some of these issues will have already been addressed in Professional Practice 1. The aim is to design an exhibition appropriate to the exhibiting context. During this semester, you should also work on preparatory studies (where appropriate) for the finished work.

Syllabus
The syllabus represents a suggested programme of work. It is given as a general guide for student and tutor. It need not be maintained rigidly; indeed, it may be superseded by a very different programme agreed between the two parties. What is important is that some form of schedule is developed so that a body of work that fulfils the aims and Outcomes of the module is produced within the allotted time.

Tutorial 1 (Weeks 1-2)
Stage 1: Defining a framework, context, and programme of work, comprehending exhibiting context

Tutorials 2-4 (Weeks 3-10)
Stage 2: Implementing the programme, self-criticism and its practical outcome in terms of preparatory work, design of catalogue entry

Tutorial 5 (week 11)
Interim assessment

VACATION
Stage 3: Commence production of exhibition works

Tutorials 6-9 (Weeks 12-21)
Stage 3: Continuation

Tutorial 10 (Week 22)
Stage 4: Resolution

EXAMINATION PERIOD
Stage 5: Hanging

Pre-Requisites
AR10120, AR10220, AR21310, either AR20220 or AR20230, either AR21820 or AR21930, either AR20720 or AR20830, either AR20520 or AR20630.

Co-Requisites
Either AR31220, AR30920, AR30720, or AR30220, and AR30620

Incompatibilities
Not available in Single Hons Art History, and Single Hons Art History with Fine Art.

Skill Development
The module will assist the development of the following transferable skills:
· Self-directed project work -- through the production of exhibitable work and a portfolio of preparatory studies
· IT and information handling -- in the compilation of the catalogue page and supporting items, such as captions and labels.
· Writing in an academic context -- through the production of a statement duly copy-edited and proof read.
· Oral skills -- in the context of individual and assessment tutorials
· Careers needs awareness –- N/A
· Self-management -- through a series of one-to-one tutorials in which the principles of matching a program of work to a fixed period of time are imparted. The student’s success in this respect is measured by the extent to which the program of work was completed within the prescribed time.
· Group activity –- in the development of the catalogue and installation of the exhibition

Assessment
Component
Selected body of exhibited work, a portfolio of preparatory studies and works not chosen for exhibition (100%).

Conditions
You must be resubmit the failed component in the form of an unhung portfolio of additional, new work.

Brief Bibliography
You are expected to read books and journals relevant to their field of study.

Aims
The module should enable you to:
A. inculcate an awareness of criteria determining a coherent body of exhibitable work
B. engage in the professional preparation and installation of the exhibitable works
C. develop a personal, individual, and imaginative response to subject matter
D. acquire and refine appropriate technical dexterity and stylistic concerns
E. produce a body of work that demonstrates conceptual and technical coherence, and the ability to sustain a commitment to subject over a period.
F. possess a developed awareness of past and contemporary art relevant to their work
G. possess a productive response to work
H. challenge and go beyond the bounds of the module/course’s expectations
I. acquire knowledge of issues, theory, and ideas pertaining to their work
J. articulate verbally the criteria by which the body of work is made and should be judged
K. develop analytical and diagnostic prowess
L. take risks and risk failure
M. define a field of action

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the module you are expected to be able to:
1. prepared and hung a small-exhibition with due attention to professional standards of installation (Aims: A, B)
2. produce a body of exhibitable work demonstrating thematic, stylistic, and techncial coherence and quality (Aims: C, D, E, G, M)
3. produce a substantial body of work that reflects a challenging, personal, imaginative, and individual vision or intent (Aims: C, H, I, L)
4. demonstrate a practice informed by the theory, ideas, and the exemplars of past and present art, as appropriate, and a thorough and communicable understanding of their work (Aims: F, I)
5. articulate clearly the criteria by which work has been selected for exhibition (Aims: J, K)

Relation to Assessment
Outcomes 1-6 are assessed through the Exhibition and Portfolio of preparatory studies and unhung work.