ObjectivesMA Fine Art aims to provide students with: * The ability to identify appropriate research interests for the purpose of developing a body of fine art work, which clearly engages with levels of critical and intellectual rigour. * Procedures to locate relevant fine art contexts, and those outside the area, so work may develop an authority through an acknowledgment of all attendant issues. * Research skills that clearly distinguish between the needs and applications of the process. * The level of attainment required to make realistic and appropriate registrations for research degrees
Entry requirementsFine Art honours degree and evidence of study or substantial prior experience or a first degree in another subject. At interview all applicants are required to present a portfolio of recent Fine Art work.
Academic titleMA Fine Art
Course descriptionOverview
This programme will enable students to continue a critical exploration of the ideas and interests established through their undergraduate experience, or long term professional practice.
Students can elect to work in any fine art area – painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, lens or electronic media – or they may choose an interdisciplinary approach.
This is a practical studio based course, with core, compulsory units in critical theory, which intend to help students contextualise and locate their work within a contemporary and relevant framework of experience.
Access to a visiting artists programme, participation in one day and residential study visits; studio spaces and access to workshops and other resources; a programme of integrated critical theory and studio practice; access to a range of fine art staff together with lecturers from other relevant disciplines; access to exhibition space within the school; opportunities to register for units of study outside the MA course, to develop additional skills and experience.
Units of Study
* Research Methods
* Critical Report
* Studio Research
* Studio Practice
* Studio Practice and exhibition
Teaching is through a seminar, tutorial and lecture programme.
Student Work - Petrified roses in jurs suspended by nails
Assessment
There will be a formal review of work at the end of each semester. The final assessment for studio work will be through exhibition.