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1 Dear Fine Art Student, Congratulations on successfully achieving a place to study at Cardiff Metropolitan University on our Fine Art Programme. I hope you had good summer and are looking forward to joining us as part of the first group of students to work in the studios in our new building at Llandaff. Your academic studies begin with an Induction Week starting on Monday 22nd September During Induction Week we have organised a five-day programme of events designed to help you get to know other students and the staff team on the course and to help familiarise yourself with our university practices and procedures. This will prepare you for your academic studies which begin in earnest with a full timetable of lectures, seminars, tutorials and assignments the following week. Your Induction Week begins on Monday 22 nd September with a welcome address by Cardiff Met s Vice Chancellor, Professor Anthony Chapman, at 11:00 am at NIAC (National Indoor Athletics Centre) at Cardiff Met s Cyncoed Campus followed by the Fresher s Fayre. Online Enrolment Enrolment is an important process which confirms your status as Student. You can complete the online self enrolment process from any computer through our Self Service system. Please note that in order to self enrol; your status must be Unconditional Firm (UF). Please begin your enrolment process by going to step-by-step guidance is provided. This process is essential in that it will allow you access to your student loan (if applied for), payment of fees, programme information systems and importantly enable you to obtain your Student ID Card. A scheduled time for collection of your student ID card has been arranged for you. You will be notified of this during your Induction. Your school induction programme will start on Tuesday 23rd September You are required to attend the Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre at the National Museum Cardiff in Cathays Park ( between 10am and 1pm. We will issue you with a copy of the programme handbook at this event. Please read this handbook carefully as it contains important information that relates to your studies.

2 Your course specific timetable and module delivery plan will be given to you during your first week. This is a fulltime course and your attendance is required 5 days per week from 9am until 5pm. Please note that you are required to attend all of your timetabled lectures and other activities during the following term dates: Induction Week: Monday 22nd September 2014 until Friday 26th September 2014 Autumn Term: Monday 29th September 2014 until Friday 19th December 2014 Spring Term: Monday 19th January 2015 until Friday 27th March 2015 Summer Term: Monday 27th April 2015 until Friday 19th June 2015 I look forward to meeting you at the Reardon Smith lecture theatre. Best wishes, Dr Stephen Thompson Deputy Dean Cardiff School of Art & Design

3 Dear Fine Artist The Fine Art team and I are very much looking forward to meeting and welcoming you into Cardiff School of Art & Design at the start of the induction week on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014 following the School s welcome event at the Reardon Smith lecture theatre at the National Museum. The induction week will have a range of activities that are all an important part of getting settled in Cardiff. Following this you will meet us again in the Fine Art Studio, Llandaff Campus (this is where most of you were interviewed). Please ask at reception for directions. Here you will be introduced to the Fine Art team who will discuss the plans for the coming term. You will also be given a detailed timetable for the Induction week. Llandaff Campus can be a bit of a maze until you are used to it, so we will be showing you the studios and workshops, the library, gallery, canteen, bar, student union and copy shop. We will also be talking with you about other important things like disability provision, registering with a doctor and where the Campus Nurse can be found. Finally, I attach the book list below that forms an essential part of your course reading, I strongly recommend that you buy or borrow these and them before September. If you wish to contact us in the summer with any queries then please do so. In the meantime, I wish you all an enjoyable and productive summer. Information on your summer project work and induction can be found attached. Best wishes, David Fitzjohn MA (RCA) Subject Leader: Fine Art Cardiff School of Art and Design Western Avenue Cardiff CF5 2YB dfitzjohn@cardiffmet.ac.uk

4 Reading List: Ways of Seeing, John Berger (Penguin Modern Classics) Concepts of Modern Art, Nico Stangos (ed.), (Thames and Hudson Ltd) Contemporary Art: A very Short Introduction, Julian Stallabrass (Oxford University Press) The Drawing Book,Tania Kovats (Black Dog Press) Summer Work Project In September you will be joining the BA (Hons) course in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art. You were offered this place because we feel that you have the ability to not only undertake and cope with the course but also that you have the potential to build on the experience that we offer and excel as Fine Artists in the longer term. The First Year in Fine Art is going to be exceptionally busy and demanding of your time from the outset. I am writing to you, therefore, with some required tasks and suggestions of others that are not compulsory that will need to be completed by you over the summer. You will need to arrive at the art school with this work ready to show in a group critique during Induction Week. 1. Firstly you must make two postcard size (A5) pieces of work. These can be in any medium, drawn, painted, photographed, cut, printed, written etc. We want you to make one that reflects your interests and ways of working and one that is a pastiche of an artist you admire or are inspired by (this may relate to the second task). All the works will be presented as a wall of inspiration as part of the Induction week. 2. Secondly you must identify either a work by an individual artist or group of artists in an exhibition and write a review. This needs to be up to 500 words. Think about what interests you about their art and the ways in which it might inform your own work. This will need to be given to your tutorial group tutor during Induction week. 3. Thirdly you must make two artworks that will introduce you to your tutorial group. These works should represent your interests. They can be presented in any medium. They may be two or three dimensional, in the form of paintings, sculpture, film, photography, performance, happening etc. You choose! 4. Finally you need to begin to keep sketchbooks (Many of you probably already do this). A sketchbook should be something like a diary, composed of drawings and images made in any medium - they could be depictions of things seen or imagined, ideas, scribbled notes, monochrome images, coloured images, collaged images, photographs. It is a personal memoir explained in visual terms. It s worth remembering that all the staff and students at CSAD value sketchbooks very highly. The work produced by all four of these tasks will be used and critiqued as part of your Induction Week Tuesday 23rd September Friday 26th September We look forward to seeing you. David Fitzjohn Subject Leader: Fine Art

5 Induction Week Timetable 2014: BA (Hons) Fine Art