Postgraduate Certificate/Postgraduate Diploma/MA
The MA in Fine Art offers an exciting opportunity for students to expand and deepen their knowledge and experience of a variety of fine art disciplines.
The course embraces a wide range of disciplines for students keen to develop their area of personal investigation.
The MA programme provides stimulating studio and theory studies that try to meet the needs of graduates wishing to develop their studio practice in a critical and supportive academic environment. Lectures, seminars and group criticisms provide a forum, linking practice, critique and theory. The programme provides you with a framework within which you will be encouraged to specialise and to develop a substantial body of work. You will be expected to do so with critical reflection, and to locate your work within the contemporary environment of ideas.
You are supported in working in any contemporary medium, and will be able to draw on our facilities and expertise in painting, drawing, digital media, photography, sculpture, installation, printmaking, etc.
Critical and historical studies form an integral part of the course, enabling you to contextualise studio practice in seminar papers and presentations.
The course emphasises supervised independent learning, personal responsibility, reflection and critical evaluation. You’ll be encouraged to share your knowledge, experience and perceptions. The course also promotes intellectual enquiry and a high level of practical and technical ability. It aims to develop and intensify your subject knowledge and transferable skills.
Some of our modules
- Methods of Enquiry
- Visual Enquiry: Methods
- Studio Practice: Independent Study
- Studio Practice: Development
- Visual Enquiry: Consolidation/Rationale
- Theory & Practice: Realisation
Benefits
- intensive studio practice
- combination of theory and practice
- specialist facilities
Career paths
- exhibit at or curate exhibitions
- take up artist residencies
- teach in further and higher education
- undertake study for PhD
Entry requirements
- You will need a good Honours Degree or Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, or an equivalent in one of the relevant subject areas.
- Applicants must submit a proposed programme of study of up to 500 words - which will form the basis of a negotiated study agreement - along with up to 20 images of recent work (2D and 3D media) or a maximum of 5 pieces of video, sound, performance or other time-based work.
Mode of attendance
Full-time with day and evening attendance and part-time with evening attendance
Location
Park Campus, Cheltenham
Enquiries and Applications
Guidance & Recruitment Office
Waterworth Building
The Park, Cheltenham
Gloucestershire GL50 4BS
Tel: 01242 714500
Fax: 01242 714827
Email: postgrad@glos.ac.uk