Fine Art MA

MA Fine Art deepens your studio practice by helping you situate it within critical and contemporary contexts, in a practice-led, interdisciplinary environment. Develop your work through three units designed to push beyond known forms and into current, international cultural debates.

MA Fine Art deepens your studio practice by helping you to situate it within critical and contemporary contexts, providing you with the opportunity to develop your ideas and work in a practice-led, interdisciplinary environment.

Whether you work with painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, moving image, performance, social practice or installation, you are encouraged to explore ideas through a process of making and experimentation that extends into new understanding or innovative creative directions.

### At a glance

* Award: MA Fine Art

* Ways you’ll learn: visiting lecturers, seminars, research intensives, critiques and site visits

* Course structure: three units designed to push beyond known forms into current, international cultural debates

* Facilities access: material and media labs for ceramics, glass, biomaterials, print media, digital media, fabric and textiles

### How contemporary art operates in the world

You will be introduced, through ongoing visiting lecturers, seminars, research intensives, critiques and site visits, to the ways in which contemporary art inhabits a range of contexts, from traditional gallery exhibitions to public art projects and socially engaged collaborations.

### Three units to push beyond known forms

The development of your work is done through three units designed to encourage you to push beyond known forms to unexpected, surprising new ways of understanding your work within current, international cultural debates.

### Research, visits and building your knowledge

Through your research into relevant topics and visits to galleries, museums and artists’ studios, you will be supported to build a body of knowledge and practice that demonstrates what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.

### Facilities, labs and your creative community

Taught within a rich network of material and media labs, including those for ceramics, glass, biomaterials, print media, digital media, fabric, and textiles, you will develop a body of work enriched by opportunities to experiment and exhibit.

You’ll do this with a community of active practitioners who will challenge, guide and accelerate your creative development.

### Why choose this course?

* Access one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school.


* Develop your work within a supportive, challenging learning environment that gives you the critical and professional skills necessary for becoming an independent artist or cultural producer.


* Study within a multidisciplinary community enriched by visiting lecturers, visiting artists, study trips, peer feedback and opportunities to publicly exhibit your work.

### Careers and future opportunities

Career opportunities include: Artists, Art Educators, Curators, Art Writers/Critics, Gallerists, Museum Professionals and Creative Entrepreneurs.