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MA - Master of Arts
City Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Enhance your portfolio and prepare for professional art practice. Our MA Fine Art develops your expertise across a wide range of media and fields of enquiry. Develop the skills to become an independent, innovative creative thinker and practitioner. You’ll enhance your portfolio and prepare for practice in the expanded field of contemporary art and the creative industries. Our MA Fine Art course provides opportunities for you to build advanced technical and theoretical problem-solving strategies as well as advanced interpretative abilities. As part of this course, you’ll: Develop your motivations, ambitions and abilities as an artist Explore a number of practices including painting, sculpture, print, installation, video, sound, performance and curating Work on collective projects and events that will foster your team-working skills, adaptability and resourcefulness Boost your creative practice You’ll increase your abilities and understanding through a series of practice modules that will encourage creative enquiry and activity. Your study will be supported by research methodologies, which will allow you to question and better understand your own creative practice. They’ll also allow you to develop new solutions to disseminate and promote your work. Learning support You’ll be supported as you flourish into an independent, creative practitioner and thinker. Working collectively, you’ll develop skills of negotiation, adaptability and resourcefulness preparing you to respond to contemporary challenges in the field of art practice.
This module gives you the space to define and develop a major strand of your artistic practice. You'll identify, propose, and negotiate a self-directed project that will grow and evolve as you move through the course – shaped closely by your own methods, motivations, and artistic voice. You'll be supported to deepen the cultural and critical concerns that drive your practice, and we'll encourage you to challenge familiar ways of making, discussing, and experiencing art. Through a mix of group and one-to-one tutorials, you'll question your approach, test ideas, and uncover new practical and conceptual directions. Peer support plays a central role here. Group sessions are student-led, opening up new areas of collective enquiry and giving you space to share emerging insights with one another.
This module supports the ongoing development of your practice through the sustained advancement of your artwork. You'll begin to apply a heightened level of critical scrutiny to what you make. This ensures you'll cultivate a deeper self-awareness and broadens your understanding of the wider social, intellectual, professional, and commercial contexts in which contemporary art operates. Through a combination of group and individual tutorials, you'll examine and critically evaluate your own practice. Ongoing reflection and dialogue will help you extend your approaches to making, researching, articulating, and displaying your work. As your confidence grows, your thinking will move beyond your immediate circle of tutors and peers to consider how your work resonates within broader professional contexts. Using platforms such as artist websites, social media, or other forms of publicity, you'll experiment with ways of positioning yourself publicly as an artist.
Prepare for the final dissemination of your expanded art practice, positioning your work and artistic identity within outward-facing professional contexts. You'll demonstrate high levels of independence and autonomy, consolidating a robust and sustainable practice while showing professional proficiency in making, articulating, and displaying your work. Individual tutorials provide a framework to develop and communicate an expanded critical understanding of your practice. Through ongoing testing, presentation, display, and promotional or commercial activity, you'll explore the most effective means to disseminate your work. Group tutorials focus on the audiences for your artwork, helping you critically evaluate the effectiveness of models drawn from the wider professional art world. You'll work closely on proposals for your final display and presentation, considering the forms these can take and how effectively they communicate your ideas.
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