MA in Fine Art
Bath, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 17,760 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* international students full time - UK full time £9,520
Introduction
This studio-based MA Fine Art course allows you to develop your creative potential in a cross-disciplinary environment, using specialist equipment and drawing on the expertise of practicing artists and skilled technicians at our Locksbrook campus.
Working with students from across the Bath School of Art, Film and Media, and School of Design, you’ll study a range of approaches including painting, sculpture, live art, and photography, to further your skills and knowledge in your specialist area. You’ll identify your position as an artist, develop the appropriate technical skills, and learn how to promote and exhibit your work professionally.
Key to the Fine Art Master’s at Bath Spa is the chance to specialize in your chosen discipline while learning alongside fellow students across all MA Fine Art and MA Design pathways. You’ll also engage with industry leaders, galleries, museums, curators, artists, and businesses, ready for the next step in your professional or academic career.
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Curriculum
This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the program document for more information on which modules are core, required, or optional.
- Research Methods
- Theory and Professional Context
- Practice 1 (Fine Art)
- Research Practice
- Theory and Professional Practices
- Practice 2 (Fine Art)
- Masters Project
Program Outcome
What you'll learn
Overview
Learn to adopt an interdisciplinary and material-led approach, based on experimentation, risk-taking, and personal innovation.
MA Fine Art at Bath Spa will challenge your assumptions about art production and encourage you to explore ways to progress within and transform the field. It will also encourage you to build collaborative relationships with other artists and develop transferable skills.
You’ll identify your position as an artist and learn to promote and exhibit your work professionally. You’ll take a holistic approach, embedding theory, research, and historical and contemporary practice into your work.
Course structure
MA Fine Art at Bath Spa runs over one year and is divided into three trimesters.
Trimester one
Begin to take chances and challenge your creative processes. 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 spaces, and technical workshops – where expert support is on hand.
Trimester two
Building on the work in the first trimester, you’ll maintain an experimental approach, but start to narrow your focus. We’ll help you evaluate your initial studio developments 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 on a proposal that contextualizes your work within your specialist discipline and leads to your final Degree Show.
How will I be assessed?
Your progress is evaluated throughout the course and at the end of each trimester through a mixture of exhibitions, verbal/visual presentations, research folders/blogs, and written assignments.
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Program delivery
How will I be taught?
You’ll learn through lectures, talks, taught sessions, individual and group tutorials, and studio critiques and seminars.
Visiting lecturers, and seminars with external professionals and internationally renowned designers and artists, will help you determine where your current practice sits within the industry.
Our collaborative structure also means that you’ll learn from each other – for instance, Curatorial Practice and Textiles students might engage in debates with Fine Art students.
Technical Demonstrators, who manage our workshop facilities, provide teaching and support across a wide range of subject specialisms. Your learning is also supported by specialist librarians.