MA Fine Art
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.
<ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Award: MA Fine Art<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Ways you’ll learn: visiting lecturers, seminars, research intensives, critiques and site visits<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Course structure: three units designed to push beyond known forms into current, international cultural debates<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Facilities access: material and media labs for ceramics, glass, biomaterials, print media, digital media, fabric and textiles</p></li></ul>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
Presence in Absence, Paul Hillon, MA Fine Art
<p dir="ltr">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.<br /></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You’ll do this with a community of active practitioners who will challenge, guide and accelerate your creative development.<br /></p>
<ul><li><p dir="ltr">Access one of the most diverse and spacious ecosystems of workshops, studios and labs known in a contemporary art and design school.<br /></p></li></ul><ul><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">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.<br /></p></li><li dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Study within a multidisciplinary community enriched by visiting lecturers, visiting artists, study trips, peer feedback and opportunities to publicly exhibit your work.</p></li></ul>
<p>Career opportunities include: Artists, Art Educators, Curators, Art Writers/Critics, Gallerists, Museum Professionals and Creative Entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>It deepens your studio practice by helping you situate it within critical and contemporary contexts, in a practice-led, interdisciplinary environment.</p>
<p>You can develop practice in painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, moving image, performance, social practice or installation through making and experimentation.</p>
<p>You’ll learn through visiting lecturers, seminars, research intensives, critiques and site visits that explore contexts from gallery exhibitions to public art projects and socially engaged collaborations.</p>
<p>The three units are designed to push beyond known forms and support new ways of understanding your work within current, international cultural debates.</p>
<p>You’ll be taught within material and media labs for ceramics, glass, biomaterials, print media, digital media, fabric and textiles, with opportunities to experiment and exhibit.</p>
<p>Career opportunities include Artists, Art Educators, Curators, Art Writers/Critics, Gallerists, Museum Professionals and Creative Entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>Arts University Plymouth graduates are offered a <strong>discount of 15% on Masters programme fees</strong>, regardless of when they studied with us previously. The discount applies if you studied on one of our pre-degree, foundation or undergraduate programmes.</p>
<p>MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.</p>
<p>Your portfolio should give us an indication of the work that you have made, organised or been involved in. For our postgraduate arts, craft and design courses, we expect to see examples of work you have created. <br /></p>
<p>The best deadline to submit your MA application by is <strong>1 July</strong>, however please be reassured that we can take late applications until the start of the course if places are still available.</p>
<ul><li><strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:admissions@aup.ac.uk">admissions@aup.ac.uk</a></li><li><strong>Tel:</strong> +44 (0)1752 203434</li></ul>
Iranian MA student Sepideh Takshi talks about life at Arts University Plymouth.
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