Undergraduate Course: Art in Practice 2 (ARTX08092)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | Art in Practice 2 is a studio-based course that will help you develop your art practice within a contemporary, multi-media context. This course combines structured workshops with dedicated studio time to allow you to expand crucial elements of your art practice whilst discovering and developing new approaches to the research, fabrication, and dissemination of artwork.
The studio will be an important, dynamic environment where you will learn through making, thinking and regular discussion of your artwork with your tutors and student group. |
| Course description |
Over two semesters, you will engage and respond to projects that will focus on generating ideas, sustaining a studio practice and the presentation of your artwork in various forms.
Each project will begin with a series of lectures and studio-based workshops that will outline elements of collaboration, artistic research, art practice and presentation methods. These will be followed by a structured time that will allow you to develop and expand your ideas and processes.
In semester one the project will help you identify and develop starting points for your art practice and the second semester project will have a greater focus on how your artwork can meet an audience.
In Art in Practice 2, the studio will be an important environment for you to fabricate, discuss and present your research and artwork. You will have regular meetings with your studio tutor and be able to access the knowledge and expertise of a range of tutors and practitioners working across different art disciplines.
The teaching contact will occur over one day per week and will include hour-long whole cohort lectures, all-day workshops with all groups, hour-long small group tutorials, one-to-one tutorials, external gallery visits, small group presentations of work and whole cohort exhibitions within studio and exhibition spaces.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Art in Practice 1 (ARTX08090) AND
Art in Context 1 (ARTX08091)
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Co-requisites | It is RECOMMENDED that students also take
Art in Context 2 (ARTX08093)
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| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students on the MA Fine Art Programme, or direct entrants to the BA Fine Art Programme, may disregard the recommended pre-requisites.
Students on the MA Fine Art Programme, may disregard the recommended co-requisites.
This course is not open as an elective and is only available to those on the BA/MA Fine Art degree programme.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50.00 for general art materials such as sketchbooks, pens, pencils, paper.
Basic materials specific to courses activities will be provided.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, however, depending on your project focus within the course, you may optionally choose to incur costs associated with realising aspects of your work. Such costs are not compulsory and depend on the nature of your chosen individual project work.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including [e.g. headphones, SD cards] if working with digital media. work.
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| Additional Costs | To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50.00 for general art materials such as sketchbooks, pens, pencils, paper.
Basic materials specific to courses activities will be provided.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, however, depending on your project focus within the course, you may optionally choose to incur costs associated with realising aspects of your work. Such costs are not compulsory and depend on the nature of your chosen individual project work.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including [e.g. headphones, SD cards] if working with digital media. work.
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 28,
External Visit Hours 8,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 4,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
317 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
SUMMATIVE Assessment(s)
This course has 2 summative assessments components:
Portfolio of Practice 1 (50%) submitted in the December assessment period and evidencing all Learning Outcomes.
Portfolio of Practice 2 (50%) submitted at the end of the course and evidencing all Learning Outcomes.
All Learning Outcomes must be passed to pass the course.
SUMMATIVE Assessment details
The Year 2 Studio Portfolio of Practice submissions 1 and 2 involve a portfolio of studio experimentation and/or resolved work alongside primary and secondary research.
Portfolio of Practice 1 (50%) requires a body of work with reflective text (400-450 words).
Portfolio of Practice 2 (50%) requires a body of work with reflective text (400-450 words).
Resit info
The resubmission assessments are the same as the original submission for this course. |
| Feedback |
FORMATIVE
In addition to verbal feedback given in tutorials and workshops, you will have a formative studio review point midway through each semester to help you to identify areas to improve and develop towards the summative assessments.
SUMMATIVE
You will be provided with individual written feedback and grades on summative submissions. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Investigate and evidence an understanding of artistic research methods by employing primary and secondary research approaches to independently develop project themes.
- Utilise various methods, processes, and technical approaches in the development of artworks.
- Experiment with, develop and document a range of approaches to the presentation and dissemination of resolved work.
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Reading List
Adamson, Glenn. & Bryan-Wilson, Julia. (2016). Art in the Making: artists and their materials from studio to crowdsourcing, London: Thames and Hudson
Harrod, Tanya. Ed. (2018). Craft. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Hudek, Antony. Ed. (2014). The Object. London: Whitechapel Gallery.
Jacob, Mary Jane. & Grabner, Michelle. Eds. (2010). The Studio Reader: on the space of artists. Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Myers, Terry. R., Ed. (2011). Painting. London: Whitechapel Gallery. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Personal Development
Making connections and between intention, process, outcome, context and methods of dissemination in contemporary Art will aid you in developing a reflective approach and taking responsibility for pursuing your aims.
Research and Inquiry
By investigating making and through experiential engagement with artistic process, you will develop your problem-solving skills.
Communication
Discussing contemporary art practices and articulating ideas about your practice will enhance your communication skills. |
| Keywords | Artistic research,Contemporary Art Practice,Art presentation,Experiential Learning,Making Skill |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Brown
Tel: 0131 221 6063
Email: john.brown@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk |
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