MFA Fine art

Course detail Content: what students can expect

• To be taught over two / three days per week, depending on the stage in the course, with access to the MFA Fine Art studios and Wimbledon's shared workshops on these days. View the Wimbledon facilities section
• To conduct research and gain practical experience in the remainder of your week
• Time to explore and claim your art practice through acquiring a high level of awareness about the contemporary art world and understanding how your work operates within this territory
• Your skills to be honed through our Professional Toolkit, with a course curriculum based on the recent Arts Council England’s recommendations for skills-sets required for both artists and arts organisations to flourish
• Access to all University of the Arts London’s libraries
• To create a web folio instead of a formal academic written paper, which contextualises and showcases your artwork
• Learn how to set up websites and use your online presence to profile your work

MFA Fine Art programme specification (PDF - 210 KB)

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StructureExtended Full-Time Study Mode

The MFA is delivered over 2 years for 30 weeks each year. Extended Full-Time mode is a hybrid of part time and full time study.

By teaching in this mode we aim to give our students the opportunity to benefit from undertaking a full time Masters degree while also pursuing and sustaining other commitments such as part-time employment, gaining other experience in the creative industries or maintaining care responsibilities.

• Unit 1: Re-evaluating your art practice
• Unit 2: Mapping your art practice
• Unit 3: Claiming your art practice

The course includes:

• Studio teaching which actively explores links between practice based experimentation and outcome
• A cross-disciplinary lecture and seminar programme supporting the contextualisation of student practice and an understanding of different discourses of the contemporary art world
• Developing both on and off site creative collaborations to test and develop negotiation skills, personal interaction abilities and develop student self-awareness
• A professional practice programme of discussion groups, seminars, lectures run by artists and curators

Find out more about MFA Fine Art on the course website -

Monday 1 October - Friday 7 December 2018

Monday 7 January - Friday 15 March 2019

Monday 15 April - Friday 21 June 2019

Learning and teaching methods

• Collaborative projects
• Group and individual tutorials
• Group crits
• Lectures and talks
• Live projects and events
• Offsite and study visits
• Online learning
• Presentations
• Seminars
• Workshops

Assessment methods

• Research folio, paper and proposal
• Studio work

Facilities

• 3D Workshops

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• Kristy Noble.

  Audio Visual Department

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• Kristy Noble.

  Digital Media Centre

  Find out more about our digital media centre

Staff

• Edwina Fitzpatrick - Course Leader
• Mark Fairnington - Reader in Painting
• Ian Monroe - Associate Lecturer

Visiting Staff

• Jordan Baseman
• Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
• David Cross
• Jeffrey Dennis
• Kimathi Donkor
• James Ireland
• Richard Layzell
• George Henry Longly

• Kirsty Ogg
• Lucy Orta
• Deanna Petherbridge
• Katie Pratt
• Paul Tarrago
• Jennett Thomas
• David Toop
• James Faure Walker