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Fine Art – (M.A.)
University of Chester
Department of Art and Design
| Location: | Chester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 24 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 180 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Chester
Fine Art is a diverse and ever-evolving discipline. This programme will provide students with a stimulating environment of practical support and critical challenge.
The department is distinctive in having an interest in the dialogue between textiles and fine art, and welcomes students working within textiles or other craft based disciplines who wish to position their practice within a fine art context.
The course aims to promote a level of self-confidence that will enable students to practice and exhibit as artists in a professional context or to continue as practice-based researchers.
Contents
Programme Structure
The programme is based on a relationship between theory and practice which allows students to understand critical ideas and subject their work to robust scrutiny, thus negotiating contexts that will lead to new artistic insights and an invigoration of their practice. The modular structure of the programme is designed to encourage personal artistic development, and students are free to choose their own way of working within the programme modules.
Year 1
In the first year, a double practice-based module 'Orientating and Developing Practice' and a theoretical module 'Critical and Contextual Approaches to Contemporary Practice' run parallel and complement each other, informing and supporting a developing understanding relationship between theory and practice.
Year 2
The second year involves the personal development of Studio Practice through a further double module together with a parallel 'Critical Studies' module, with the intention that students will be able to draw on the insights that they have gained in the first year in order to establish more focused lines of enquiry. Consideration of a range of research methods appropriate to studio practice provides the means by which students are able to frame their practice in a research context and construct a critically robust exhibition proposal. During the summer period of the second year of study, students will be engaged in realising this proposal. The MA project is considered as a research project where a body of creative work is accompanied by a critical and contextual rationale.
Whilst students have full access to the department´s specialist workshops, equipment, ICT facilities and technical support, it is expected that students on the programme will also have their own studio/workspace.
Assessment
Assessment will be through practical work, a reflective journal, exhibition and written assignments.
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Take testRequirements
Minimum of lower second class honours degree, or equivalent, in Art and/or Design, and will have evidence of recent work equivalent to honours degree standard.
Applications must include a statement of intent, supported by eight to twelve colour slides or digital images showing evidence of recent work. Suitable candidates will be invited for interview, to which they should bring a portfolio of recent, original work or, in the case of three-dimensional work, photographs.
At interview an applicant's potential to benefit from the programme of study will be assessed, and the interview will focus on the artistic concerns of the individual, so that his/her needs in relation to the programme aims can be discussed.
Candidates for the part-time programme will be required to have regular access to their own appropriately equipped studio.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 85 |
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