Fine Art (MFA)

• The North Wales School of Art & Design at Wrexham Glyndwr was named as the best place to study Art in Wales in the Guardian University league tables 2016 and also ranked 12th out of all UK universities.
• We have high-quality studio space set within a traditional Art School environment and small group sizes allowing for individual support.
• Supportive tutors who produce and exhibit their own work both nationally and internationally as well as writing about art practice in books and journals.
• The programme encourages students to scrutinise their practice through peer dialogue.
• Provides students with the opportunity to broaden their industrial experience and professional practice.
• There are opportunities to study abroad through the Erasmus scheme.
• Prepares students for their wider responsibilities as practising artists via social, ethical, environmental and political issues.

The first year of this programme initially provides the opportunity to explore a variety of specialist activities offered within Fine Art as a broad based first-year experience. You will examine how artists process ideas through a combination of making and critical evaluation while learning to relate your experiences to those of other artists.

• Contextual Studies 1
• Creative Futures 1
• Introductory Subject Studies (Fine Art)
• Principles and Processes (Fine Art)
• Ideas and Concepts (Fine Art)
• Media and Techniques (Fine Art)
  
  

Second year modules enable students to consolidate and extend their learning with more advanced techniques and processes that challenge them to experiment with a variety of media and methods of communication. You have the opportunity to explore the areas of Fine Art practice you are most interested in within workshops led by a skilled practitioners working within the field. Having developed an awareness of what is possible, you may then choose to specialise in an established area of practice such as drawing, painting, video, digital media, sculpture or printmaking or adopt an interdisciplinary approach.

• Contextual Studies 2
• Creative Futures 2
• Extended Practice (Fine Art)
• Practice in Context (Fine Art)
• Specialist Study (Fine Art)
  
  

Third year modules require more critical, analytical and lengthier negotiated studies where students can determine their own career path and have the opportunity to negotiate a year plan which places them with more responsibility over what projects they undertake. This is closely monitored through regular critiques, seminars and tutorials.

• Contextual Studies 3
• Creative Futures 3
• Negotiated Study 1 (Fine Art)
• Negotiated Study 2 (Fine Art)
  
  

Final year modules enable students to acquire deeper practice-based skills, while furthering their vocational experience of working on professional pieces of work, exhibition projects and commissions. The programme challenges students in the way they think about their practice and how they may embrace new opportunities, collaborate with others, take risks, solve problems and adapt to different and innovative ways of working professionally in the creative industries arena.

• Locating Practice (Fine Art)
• Practice and Application (Fine Art)
• Advanced Professional Practices (Fine Art)
  
  

The information listed in this section is an overview of the academic content of the programme that will take the form of either core or option modules. Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal academic framework review, so may be subject to change.