Fine Art MA

Challenge your own practice with support and insight from a dedicated staff team at one of the UK's historic arts schools. Discover the right questions you need to unlock your next stage as a practicing artist or arts professional.

Overview
This practice-based Masters programme enables artists to critically reflect upon, challenge, and refine their work in the context of recent developments within the field of contemporary Fine Art practice.

You will be encouraged to investigate and reconsider assumptions underlying your own practice.

The course is multi-disciplinary; it promotes critical debate and dialogue between artists working across different media and platforms. You will be expected to explore and rigorously define your objectives both as an individual artist and within collaborative projects with other creative practitioners and arts institutions.

If you are interested in arranging an informal, pre-application chat with course leader Dr Daniel Pryde-Jarman to find out more about the course, or discuss your proposal, use the button below.

What to expect
On this course you will be encouraged to respond to contemporary discourse surrounding the production and distribution of art works, engaging with questions relating to the evolving role of the artist within society and the increasingly hybridised ways in which artists work.

Exploring and developing practice-based research methodologies will enhance your position as an independent artist and add to your range of professional practice skills. This method of learning will also prepare you for further post-graduate study or research.

The course is designed to foster a vibrant studio culture where staff and students can exchange ideas, share ongoing reflection, and challenge assumptions about what forms their work should take and how it should be experienced.

In addition to self-directed learning you will receive tutorials, group critiques, seminars, visiting lecturers, workshops.