MA Fine Art

Duration

1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

N/A

A photograph of small robot devices with antennas and wires placed on a dark surface viewed through a set of bars.

Alex Williams

An art gallery with colourful abstract pieces on walls, grid-like sculptures on wooden boxes and bright natural light from large windows.

A Tittering of Magpies

A photograph of a painting of a person on a pink chair surrounded by pets holding a child with patterned wallpaper and a lamp under a framed portrait.

Chloe Reynolds

A photograph of a mannequin wearing a colourful dress with yellow, red and green panels, ruffled sleeves and a layered hem set in a room with wooden floors.

Danielle D'Abreu

A photograph of an art installation with concrete blocks encircled by police tape set on a polished wooden floor. Small framed artworks hang on the wall in the background.

Faun Material

A photograph of a corner of a room with a tall floor lamp, a box covered in papers and a dark, pipe-like installation on the ceiling.

Georgie Holt

A photograph of a TV on a wooden floor displaying an image of a person playing the violin in a room with bright, fiery lighting.

James Sewell

A photograph of three TVs on a gallery floor displaying art, facing a red patterned rug. Nearby small artworks decorate white walls.

Jessica Wood

A photograph of a framed artwork with blue tiles and graffiti rests against a rough concrete wall on a polished wooden floor.

Keegan Neville

Three thermal images of a shirtless person standing with hands clasped in front each with varying colour tones.

Kingston Amaechi

A photograph of a metal fly trapped in a small puddle of pale yellow liquid on a textured white surface.

Olga Young

A photograph of human skeleton bones laid out on sand in a display including a skull, rib cage and other bones.

Sam Henty

A photograph of a wooden bookshelf with colourful book spines forming landscape and design patterns including green fields, blue skies and orange designs.

Susan Daubney

A photograph of an abstract painting of a woman with blurred features in vibrant colours of pink, blue and orange leaning against a pink wall on a wooden floor.

Yan Wang

The Course

This course is for practitioners who wish to advance, widen and deepen an existing practice, enabling progress through critical thinking and critical making.

With a focus on self-directed learning, informed debate, focused experimentation and high-level material production, you will be supported in fine art making across the widest possible range of media, methods, and practical outcomes.

We promote 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 practice-based 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 and a range of studio spaces that can be used on a temporary basis at different points 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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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

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. Our 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.