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Why study MA
Fine Arts?
- Your own practice is at the centre of the
programme - Your own practice is at the centre of the
programme, and you will take practice-based modules throughout the
degree, whether you are enrolled full-time or part-time.
- Fluid interrelationship between theory and
practice - Delivery of the degree programme will make use
of workshop, studio, seminar and virtual environments, providing an
opportunity to explore the interrelationships between practice,
reflection and knowledge.
- Opportunities for cross-disciplinary work -
The existence of parallel MA Fine Arts and MA Performance
programmes will provide you with opportunities to develop
cross-disciplinary awareness and practices.
- Focus on reflection and dissemination - The
programme is designed to enhance the reflective strategies you
employ in your creative decision making and your awareness of
issues of dissemination within your present and future
practice.
What will
I study?
The curriculum, which also supports awards at
Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma levels, is
uniquely designed and focused on developing artists’ abilities and
capacities for professional, vocational and academic innovation. We
emphasise relationships between composition, reflection, practice
and dissemination across a dynamic breadth of fine arts disciplines
and discourses. Teaching, learning and research on the programme
will enable discovery of the variety of ways in which composition,
creation and dissemination in fine arts practice has evolved into
its present media and forms.
This degree enables students who already have
some experience of fine arts practice to expand their artistic
horizons, develop their reflective abilities and expand their
portfolio as thinking practitioners.
You will follow two strands of modules
through the programme:
Reflective Practice
This strand, consisting of two 40 credit modules
is designed to enhance students’ abilities as self-reflective
practitioners. It recognises the deep interrelationship between
reflection, documentation, dissemination and production, in terms
of the development of an artist’s work and practice in terms of its
function and operation within critical and public domains. Students
will be introduced to the variety of ways in which composition,
creation and dissemination in the production of fine arts practice
has evolved into its present media and forms. This will be
accompanied by investigation into the potential of strategies
concerning documentation as useful modes of reflection and
realisation. This module strand will be primarily focused around
students’ own practice, contextualised by examination of various
key practitioners, modes or epistemologies.
Questions of Practice is a practice-based module
that encourages students to think and reflect through development
of studio practice and discovery of related questions of practice.
It recognises critical and creative reflection on studio practice
as an active and essential aspect of working processes. It aims
also to guide students in development and enhancement of their
conceptual, intellectual, practical and technical range of
abilities, skills and knowledge in relation to models and
strategies of making and reflecting upon current fine arts
practice.
Practice in Context encourages students to
develop a nascent body of practice-based work in response to issues
of context. Where work in ‘Questions of Practice’ encourages
speculative approaches to studio practice, this module asks
students to identify and respond to any of a range of historical,
social and cultural contexts. This could range from re-examining
approaches to site-specific practice, the ‘white cube’ gallery
space, or networked, online spaces. The module allows time and
opportunity for students to develop and enhance their conceptual,
intellectual, practical and technical range of abilities, skills
and knowledge in relation to issues and opportunities of
making/disseminating practice-based research in fine arts
practice.
Creativity & Knowledge
This strand, consisting of two 20 credit modules,
is designed to deepen students’ understanding of key
interdisciplinary questions, concepts and methodologies in the
arts.
Creativity and Knowledge 1 invites students to
interrogate a range of key themes relating to the relationship
between art and the wider cultural, social, economic circumstances
of its production and reception. Creativity and Knowledge 2
consists of investigation into concepts of practice-based research
in the arts and the examination of the epistemological and
ideological implications of the widening of traditional concepts of
research that such developments entail.
This strand of modules is taught
cross-disciplinarily with students on the MA programmes within
Creative Practice.
Masters Independent Project
Together these taught elements lead MA candidates
into the final Independent Project module, where you will undertake
an extended period of supervised practice-based research which is
expected to draw together and implement the resources provided
earlier in the programme.
Attendance
The programme is offered in the following modes
of study:
- Full-time: One year
- Part-time: Two year
The programme begins in September each year. The
taught modules will normally consist of weekly sessions scheduled
on one day a week. There may also be the occasional intensive
weekend session.
Awards
Students would normally enrol onto the MA
programme (180 credits). However there is the possibility of
undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma (consisting of 120 credits of
taught modules but not the Independent Project) or exiting with the
Postgraduate Certificate (60 credits).
These routes may be attractive if you wish to
update or consolidate your existing qualifications but do not wish
to carry out extended research into fine arts.
Degree programme information
Programme specifications
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