In this course you will engage with a specified contemporary theme through either creative practice, curatorial or critical theoretical processes. Building on an initial framing, you will develop creative responses that evidence an expanded exploration of your topic.

You will have the opportunity to develop methodologies and outcomes in a form that is appropriate to your chosen interest and/or creative practice.

A different theme will be offered each semester. Possible themes might include contemporary figuration; feminisms; realisms; decolonialisation; post-humanism; abstraction; politics in art; hyper-reality; radical street art; public and private; gender and sexuality; land, landscape and place; contemporary portraiture; imaging and VR futures.

We have created two Themes in Contemporary Practice courses A & B. Each semester they are co-delivered. Two courses have been created so that you have the opportunity to explore two different themes over the course of your degree.