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Study Details: One year full-time
The Contemporary Art Practice MA is designed to prepare you for continuous artistic, professional and academic development. We will support you to develop research methods and personal goals tailored to your creative practice and professional ambitions. You’ll be introduced to emerging trends in contemporary practice including presentation, installation, curatorial and representational issues, and learn how to develop research methods to inform your creative decisions.
You will be encouraged to ask questions and take a personal and critical position in the globalised creative world, equipped with the skills to produce and exhibit your work, to embrace change in the fast-evolving creative industries and challenge artistic conventions.
Teaching takes place in our creative studio environment with support from a highly skilled team of technicians, and you will have access to a range of workshops to experiment and innovate with materials and processes. Our exhibiting artists and research-active academics have interdisciplinary expertise in drawing, painting, sculpture, analogue and digital photography, digital media, printmaking, public art, installation and relational practice. You will build important professional practice skills throughout the course with opportunities to curate and exhibit your work. Develop a dialogue around your work by participating in discussion groups and seminars and be part of a dynamic cohort of visual arts students, from BA to PhD.
You should have the equivalent or above of a 2:2 UK bachelor’s honours degree in Fine Art or a related subject.
If you have other professional qualifications or industry experience we will consider your application on an individual basis.
The course will prepare you with the professional skills, flexibility and independence needed to adapt to the changing pressures and opportunities in contemporary art practice. Many of our graduates pursue careers as practicing artists, or in other closely related areas of contemporary art practice such as curation, public and community art, education, and cultural journalism. Others have used the transferable skills gained on the course in a diverse range of industries in the wider creative sector.
Research Lab 1
Experimental and Curatorial Practice
Research Lab 2
Research Residency
Exhibitionary Practice
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