MA Creative Practice

Duration

1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

N/A

Amy Stringer

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Anais Pan

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Evelyn Hewett

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Hafifa Ahmed

A photograph of an art exhibit featuring six abstract sculptures on wooden stands atop a table, with framed artworks on a white brick wall in the background.

Kate Stockwell

A photograph of a performer dancing on stage dressed in a shirt, trousers and braces whilst holding papers with a screen in the background.

Maxwell Sly

An image featuring large, bold, blue, felt-tip-style capital letters that read: ‘If you are reading this in a book, please eat this page thank you.’

Theo Gowans

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Lucy Bergman

A photograph of a person shielding their eyes from the sun, standing between swing chains, with a hand holding up a red backdrop behind them.

Lucy Fradley

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Maisie Baker

The Course

This course is devised for creative practitioners, recent arts graduates and professionals who wish to examine, strengthen and deepen their practice within their own context.

If you are an artist, designer, performer or writer and wish to work in a creative environment or have an interest in developing your practice for the creative industries, then this course is for you. We encourage you to pursue an individual creative research interest for the duration of your study, allowing you to examine and strengthen your own practice and place it at the centre of your studies in a transdisciplinary learning context.

You will be encouraged to maintain contact with other creative practitioners and develop freelance or other creative career paths within a portfolio career. This course will also support and prepare you to develop ideas for application to a practice-based PhD. The aim is to encourage a deeper conceptual and practical understanding of process, method, technique, tools and materiality through scholarship and critical engagement with theoretical creative practice contexts.

With an emphasis on individual creative research, transdisciplinary thinking, and the deepening of personal practice, this course will appeal to artists, designers, performers, and writers seeking a diverse environment in which to develop their creative work. Whether you are a recent graduate or an established practitioner looking to strengthen your creative career, the course offers a supportive context for pursuing your own research interests, engaging critically with theory, process, and materiality — and for those looking further ahead, a strong foundation for practice-based PhD study.

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How to apply for our postgraduate courses

The Structure

Our postgraduate courses include both specialist subject modules and transdisciplinary core modules. Both are underpinned by independent learning. You will be supported with a variety of teaching and learning methods, including individual supervision, group tutorials, live briefs and project proposals, as well as being encouraged to collaborate with students from other postgraduate courses.

Our academic staff are engaged in contemporary practice in their specialism and will support, encourage and challenge you during your studies. All postgraduate students are taught together in research methods and business-related modules. Postgraduate courses can be studied either full-time over one academic year or part-time over two academic years. Teaching is broken down into three teaching blocks per year.

Specialist Resources

Students can access a range of specialist facilities by arrangement. These include practical workshops in printmaking, digital print, ceramics and glass, wood, metals and plastics, mac suites, 3D printers and photographic lighting studios.