Week 9: Identifying Potential and Resolution

1. Introduction and Outline of Class
• This class will discuss the resolution of drawing processes considering issues of editing and presentation as well as context; where do drawings work well? And what opportunities exist for their transmission to an audience?

• Each working group will break into smaller discussion groups. In these groups students will explore the questions above and also develop a sense of the kind of critical conversation that might be useful in the following week for themselves and those whose work they will be responding to.

2. Class Aims
• An understanding of key issues including: How can a drawing be considered completed? What are the effects of its materials on its meaning? How can I take my drawing and my thinking about drawing further, (and in directions that are interesting to both myself and my audience)?

• The relationship between drawing and its documentation will also be explored

• This session is designed to prepare students for the following weeks crit. By the end of this discussion students will have identified key works from the semester and used feedback from fellow students to assist in the identification of key concerns that characterise the body of work as a whole.

3. Independent Study, (Description of task)
• Students will use their independent studio time to collate their completed course material and update their sketchbook or visual diary.

• When collating work students should remember to show evidence of learning. This includes incorporating experimentation as well as completed outcomes and should involve a demonstration of an active research process that relates to the interests expressed though their work.

• Each student will have complied a short list of conversation starters relating to their own work. What works and how might deficiencies be addressed.

4. Intended Student Learning Outcomes of the Course (objectives)
By the end of the session students will:

• Be able to recognise and demonstrate a wide range of drawing techniques/styles and methods.

• Resolve drawing problems and develop strategies for presenting them.

• Be familiar with and critically engage in the discourse surrounding drawing at an introductory level.

• Have developed a studio practice, which incorporates acquisitive, open-ended and self-reflexive learning.

• Be familiar with the principle of a self-directed practice at a basic level

4. Relevant Bibliography
• Please refer to the assessment criteria for the 103 drawing paper http://elamdrawingcontacts.blogspot.com/


• Note: Course feedback collected at session end, (12.30) Venue TBA