Part six: Preparing for Assessment
Aim
To round off your work on Concepts in Practice, you’ll finish off any outstanding works, make any extra developments that you have in mind and then select the best of your work from the course, including some of your experimental pieces from the first parts of the course, and, in discussion with your tutor, decide how best to present your work for assessment. You’ll write an expanded artist’s statement linking your textual and practical research with your finished pieces.
Method
Your task is to prepare your assessment portfolio in discussion with your tutor. Put together your portfolio for assessment as directed in the submission guidelines at the end of this course guide. Think carefully about what you’re going to include. Don’t submit everything; you must show discernment on what to include and what to leave out. Please include your initial and expanded artist’s statements as this is the main written element of this course. Select work for your portfolio that shows a thoughtful and progressive enquiry into painting. Experimental pieces that show risk-taking and individuality are better than ‘safe’ but uninteresting pieces, so bear this in mind. Revisit the assessment criteria in the introduction to this course guide. The assessors are
looking for evidence of your growing awareness of painting’s past and present, as well as your developing technical, visual and intellectual ability. Make sure that everything is clearly labelled so that the assessors can immediately see how the elements of your assessment portfolio relate to one another.
Reflection
Once you’ve collated your written and visual material, photograph or scan the work you plan to submit, and email it to your tutor for review. Don’t photograph or scan every page of your learning log or sketchbooks, but describe what you’re planning to submit. You should also outline the way you plan to actually present the work so that your tutor can make sure that you’re making the most of the work you are sending in. Your tutor will give you feedback and guidance so that you’re well prepared to make the best of your work at assessment.
To round off your work on Concepts in Practice, you’ll finish off any outstanding works, make any extra developments that you have in mind and then select the best of your work from the course, including some of your experimental pieces from the first parts of the course, and, in discussion with your tutor, decide how best to present your work for assessment. You’ll write an expanded artist’s statement linking your textual and practical research with your finished pieces.
Method
Your task is to prepare your assessment portfolio in discussion with your tutor. Put together your portfolio for assessment as directed in the submission guidelines at the end of this course guide. Think carefully about what you’re going to include. Don’t submit everything; you must show discernment on what to include and what to leave out. Please include your initial and expanded artist’s statements as this is the main written element of this course. Select work for your portfolio that shows a thoughtful and progressive enquiry into painting. Experimental pieces that show risk-taking and individuality are better than ‘safe’ but uninteresting pieces, so bear this in mind. Revisit the assessment criteria in the introduction to this course guide. The assessors are
looking for evidence of your growing awareness of painting’s past and present, as well as your developing technical, visual and intellectual ability. Make sure that everything is clearly labelled so that the assessors can immediately see how the elements of your assessment portfolio relate to one another.
Reflection
Once you’ve collated your written and visual material, photograph or scan the work you plan to submit, and email it to your tutor for review. Don’t photograph or scan every page of your learning log or sketchbooks, but describe what you’re planning to submit. You should also outline the way you plan to actually present the work so that your tutor can make sure that you’re making the most of the work you are sending in. Your tutor will give you feedback and guidance so that you’re well prepared to make the best of your work at assessment.