MA Fine Art

Duration

1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

N/A

Alex Williams

A Tittering of Magpies

Chloe Reynolds

Danielle D'Abreu

Faun Material

Georgie Holt

James Sewell

Jessica Wood

Keegan Neville

Kingston Amaechi

Olga Young

Sam Henty

Susan Daubney

Yan Wang

The Course

This course will advance, widen and deepen your existing practice, enabling progress through critical thinking and critical making. Dialogic exchange is at the heart of this course, which is founded on principles of self-directed learning, informed debate, focused experimentation and high-level material production. The course supports informed fine art making across the widest possible range of media, methods, and practical outcomes.

This course promotes a culture of sustained, sophisticated fine art production, informed by contemporary practice, research, advanced scholarship, and a range of relevant creative contexts and cultural industries. You will be engaged in an imaginative exchange of ideas within an experimental, critical and creative learning environment, underpinned by the University’s research culture. Your ambition for your individual practice provides self-determined parameters for advanced study throughout the course. You will be supported to develop an independent, analytical, proactive and negotiated approach to your own development.

You are expected to initiate and sustain critical, analytical judgement in the production of investigative fine art work, informed by in-depth theoretical and material understanding. Learning methods include seminars, dynamic group work, individual tuition, and live projects – the arenas in which you test and refine your thinking and making with a diverse group of peers. The course enables innovative fine art practice and promotes work that is both ethical and sustainable.

MA Fine Art is embedded within the wider fine art course area, providing students with a shared studio hub, bookable installation spaces, and a range of studio spaces on a temporary basis throughout the academic year. This dynamic, negotiated approach to studio provision helps students establish a mode of independent working and organisation appropriate to MA study. The course emphasises the social context of the fine art studio, and challenges students to develop sustainable methods to support ongoing practice during and beyond the course.

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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.

Students are able to access a range of specialist facilities aligned to their research interest.

Specialist Resources

MA Fine Art students access a range of specialist facilities aligned to their practice and research interests, often working with instructors and specialist staff in a bespoke way. Leeds Arts University’s specialist arts studios and facilities are award-winning and industry standard. Specialist workshops include photography, printmaking, mac suites, wood and metal, plaster, ceramics and glass. The Fine Art area includes preparation spaces and practical workshop drop-ins and sign-ups.