Why choose this course?
This innovative MA painting course focuses on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues. The course provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.

This course:

Is focused on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues.
Provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.
Is structured to build your skills, creative inquiry, and career prospects within fine art painting.
Develops advanced technical abilities and material innovations while immersed in critical painting methodologies.
Emphasises cultivating creative thinking, conceptual rigor and employability.
Progresses through practice-based research helping find innovative solutions to aesthetic and conceptual challenges.
Will refine your artistic aims within contemporary painting.
Is guided by independent and collaborative learning, you will progress through workshops, critiques and seminars aimed to foster a versatile, inquisitive and dynamic painting practitioner engaging with the creative economy.

Key course features
Guest lectures, industry partnerships, and optional work placements provide insight into real-world contexts, expanding networks and employability prospects.
Regular exhibitions, critiques and peer collaboration mirror professional fine art settings, encouraging critical reflection and communication abilities.
Opportunities to exhibit both on and off-campus nurture creative entrepreneurship.
A studio-situated teaching model combines practical workshops, lectures, seminars, and independent study.
The hybrid delivery approach efficiently utilises on-campus facilities while enabling remote learning.

Career prospects
Our Careers & Employability service is there to help you make decisions and plan the next steps towards a bright future. From finding work or further study to working out your interests, skills and aspirations, they can provide you with the expert information, advice and guidance you need.

This programme is designed to help improve students’ employability, as it will equip them with the skills needed when working in art and design interdisciplinary practices, such as:

Professional Artist/Painter
Art Teacher (Schools, Colleges, Universities)
Gallery Curator/Manager
Museum Educator
Art Critic/Writer
Art Consultant
Public Art Coordinator
Arts Administrator
Community Arts Worker
PhD in Fine Art/Painting
PhD in Art History/Theory
PhD in Art Education
Additional certifications (e.g. Art Therapy)