Fine Art: Contemporary Practice – (M.A.)

The course is designed to support a sustained period of enquiry that enables you to attain a high level of artistic practice and professional competence. It fosters the belief that fine art practices are a rich and potent source for imagining and developing unique ways of conceiving, thinking, and acting in the world today. As such, the importance of practice is emphasised as an essential method of instigating, investigating and making sense of ideas and concepts.

To compliment the idea of learning through making, your artwork, and its associated ideas and concepts, will be subjected to artistic and critical scrutiny. This provides a means of gaining a critically informed understanding of your own individual practice and its position within the field of contemporary art.

The course focuses on ideas and concerns of contemporary art to provide a common ground for students. It actively celebrates the diversity of contemporary practice. Inspiration for recent projects have been drawn from areas including archives, narratives, philosophies, personal histories, sciences, literatures, geographies, religions, space, gender, childhood memory, time, technologies, body, weather cycles, gardening, perception and ritual.

In terms of your own individual practice, you will be encouraged to initiate and develop artworks in any media that you believe to be appropriate for expressing and representing your ideas. Students on the course have produced work using a range of media including drawing, textiles, fibre arts, painting, printmaking, textual practices, sculpture, performance, installation, video, sound, photography and digital media.