FNA3806*

Tapestry studio 6

12 points - 24 hours per week, including 8 studio hours and 16 independent study hours per week - Second semester - Caulfield - Prerequisites: FNA2803, FNA2804 - Corequisites: None - Core for tapestry major

Objectives On successful completion of this subject, students should have a personal program of professional study and practice within the broad parameters of the tapestry medium; have a body of work suitable to be submitted as a final folio; be able to resolve the problems of documentation and exhibition demanded by their particular body of work; demonstrate a finely developed aesthetic, critical and analytical ability within their work; be highly skilled in fine art techniques appropriate to their particular tapestry practice; be articulate in the practice and theory of contemporary tapestry and of fine art practice generally; have developed critical facilities to enable sophisticated critique of their own work and that of others.

Synopsis This subject is the culmination of the previous two and a half years of study. Teaching is structured around producing a resolved body of work which is submitted as the final folio. This work is of exhibition standard and is supported with appropriate documentation. Studio instruction fine tunes the skills students, while group sessions provide an active dialogue between students who, by this point, have developed strongly individual approaches within the medium. Additionally, slide talks, visiting artists, gallery and museum visits supplement and support studio investigations.

Assessment Folio (including an initial project of not less than 20%): 100%

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