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MA Fine Art (Painting)

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    MA One year full-time

Course Description

This studio-centred course offers you the opportunity to explore and develop your own painting practice. We’ll encourage you to experiment, take risks and establish your own strategy for working. You’ll develop specialist skills and knowledge through a combination of making, research and professional development.

Drawing on the specialist resources available in our outstanding studios, making spaces and our painting methods room, you’ll develop your research and technical knowledge in painting. Combining practical and theoretical knowledge will help you to evolve your work in new ways.

This Fine Art Painting MA recognises the significant history of painting at Bath School of Art, Film and Media, and builds on our teaching and research strengths in painting, connecting to our established partnership with the Freelands Foundation, their fellowship programme and acclaimed painting prize.

Entry Requirements

You’ll need a good first degree in Fine Art or equivalent experience, and experience of how fine artists, and the field of Fine Art, work.

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Programme Funding

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Student Destinations

Students on our MA Fine Art programme find employment in a range of relevant areas, including:

  • Professional artists and designers
  • Studio and freelance design
  • Retail and display management
  • Curating
  • Art criticism
  • Arts administration
  • Museum and gallery work
  • Education.

Recent graduates also have set up their own group studios and exhibition spaces. Others go on to pursue further research or a PhD.

Module Details

Trimester one
You’ll interrogate your existing knowledge and develop skills in an environment that encourages playfulness and artistic risk-taking. You can experiment freely in our wide variety of specialist facilities, open studio and workshop spaces – with expert technical support.

Trimester two
Building on your work in the first trimester, we’ll support you to reflect upon your developments in the studio and refine your working strategy. You’ll be encouraged to pay greater attention to the presentation of your practice and to test how finished works relate to each other in, as well as to the spaces of, exhibition sites.

Trimester three
You’ll work in the studio with increasing independence as you establish a professional practice. You’ll devise and complete your Master’s Project, working to a proposal which contextualises your work within your specialist discipline and leads to your final Degree Show.

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