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Illustration – (M.A.)
The Arts University College at Bournemouth
Master's Programme
| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,800 - ≈ € 14,030 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Bournemouth / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of The Arts University College at Bournemouth
MA Illustration encourages practitioners to question the nature of their own practice, its context and place within the creative industries and beyond. The course offers an expansive notion of illustration exploring the relationships between illustrator as author, audience/artifice, and site or context, and the contemporary blurring of boundaries across disciplines. Ideas will be researched and developed through specific individual approaches to practical research and reflective enquiry and applied using appropriate media and techniques. The course will appeal to students who are open to engagement with a diverse range of creative ideas and possibilities, from traditional illustration techniques including drawing and printmaking, to digital lens-based and time-based media, exhibition and performance.
Course Staff
Lisa Richardson is a fine artist whose research explores and distinguishes between the evoked or abstract body – the body of gestures, voice and conscious activity – and the visceral or fleshy body, through a variety of media including video, sculpture, photography and installation.
Matt Johnson is an illustrator, lecturer and researcher who graduated from St. Martins School of Art. His professional work has been published internationally and his practice has included authorial and editorial work. His practical work spans digital and traditional print media and his research interests include aspects of communication and language theory, including critical discourse analysis to areas of visual culture. He has presented a number of conference papers in the UK and internationally; he is an advisor on legal and ethical issues to the AOI and is a member of the Drawing Research Network.
Joel Lardner has been a practicing illustrator since 1996. He has an international client base and extensive experience within the subject area. Joel is currently exploring new opportunities and directions for illustration in his role as senior lecturer at The Arts University College at Bournemouth. Recent authorial projects have included collaborations with a professional photographer and also an investigation of storytelling via the tradition of illustrated picture books. Ornament and pattern feed his enthusiasm for intricacy and detail. Themes of beauty and decay permeate his authorial projects.
Contents
The MA course is structured in a way that builds systematically and in a logical sequence. The course consists of three phases, with each phase building in complexity and demand. Each phase operates over a period of 15 weeks full-time (30 weeks part-time). There is one unit in each phase and each unit has its own Aims, Learning Outcomes, Assessment Requirements and Assessment Criteria.
All students (whether undertaking the fulltime one-year mode of study or the part-time two-year mode of study) will study the same course leading to the same award. Each student will require the successful completion of 180 credits (equivalent to a total of 1800 study hours) at Level 7 in order to achieve the award of MA. The full time course duration is 45 weeks (a notional total of 40 study hours per week) and the part-time course duration is 90 weeks (a notional total of 20 study hours per week). The part-time and full-time overlap offers several opportunities. Part-time students will have the valuable and informative experience of attending the critiques, group and individual presentations scheduled for full-time students, providing them with relevant skills, knowledge and a real understanding of what is expected of them. Full-time students will gain from part-time students’ assistance in the preparation of their MA show. All new full-time and part-time cohorts will be welcomed by existing part-time students in their second year of study and will be able to learn from their experiences of the course and of the University College. Part-time students in their second year will be able to act as mentors to the new students. An ability to study independently is the underlying principle of postgraduate courses and students selecting the part-time option may find this allows them the further ‘space’ in which to develop their practice and thinking.
Research
A flourishing research and scholarship culture exists at the University College which celebrates and enables original investigation in order to extend existing knowledge and new understanding across the range of art, design, media and performance. We promote the pursuit of innovation and creativity, encourage opportunities for establishing and sharing best practice in research, foster the development of critical perspectives, and provide possibilities for self-reflective practicesin teaching and learning in an interactive relationship with research.
The Learning Experience
Students develop their individual practice which, in turn, informs and directs their research interests. Practice is regarded as a way of exploring and defining research and forms the basis from which the contextualisation of practice takes shape. The study is self-initiated and developed through the Study Plan, building upon the study proposal set out at interview. As students explore and interrogate their practice they are required to develop a body of work and to present their ideas, outcomes and related research in seminars. Each student is required to develop and maintain a Professional Development Portfolio.
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BA (Hons) in Arts, Design or Media (2:1 or above). Applicants will usually have a 2.1 or equivalent undergraduate level but, most importantly, will be interested in experimentation and innovative practice within a structured framework leading to Masters outcomes. This is a taught Masters award and candidates will need to be available for all of the taught sessions as the inter-disciplinary nature of the enquiries is an integral aspect of the programme. Applicants with other than the required academic qualifications may be considered for entry if there is sufficient evidence to indicate that they have the potential to fulfill the objectives of the course of study and to achieve the standard of the final award.
Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS score of 6.5 or higher.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
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