Writing About Art and Creative Practice

The focus of this intensively-delivered course is writing on and about the creative arts and the visual arts in particular. It is aimed at students engaged in either practice-led research or art history and theoretical research in the creative arts. It introduces a variety of strategies and models for experimenting with voice, structure and content and addresses writing for different contexts - academic, art museums and the visual and creative industries more generally. The aim throughout is to develop students' critical awareness of various ways of writing and skills and confidence for writing at an advanced level. Students will conduct self-directed research in order to create a conceptual framework that incorporates their creative practice, methodologies and outcomes. Employing rigorous research that underpins the broader context of the student’s Higher Degree Research project, they will demonstrate a high level of critical awareness and evaluation of their writing processes. Students are encouraged to contact the course convenor to discuss their choice of subject.