MA Fine Art

Module: 7FP009

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

For the most inventive practitioners, issues of creative approaches to presentation are not something that are ‘added-on’ once an artwork is finished. This module aims to develop your understanding of the relationship between a work’s context and its content. You will learn how artists knowingly and unknowingly adopt existing conventions for artistic operation, and how they can manage new conventions to create novel relationships with their audiences. The module aims to develop your awareness of existing institutions and how they operate to create display. You will be supported in understanding issues of audience-creation pertinent to your own practice, and will develop the knowledge and skills to control the relationship between artist and audience through display.

Module: 7FP008

Credits: 60

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

In this module you will test and develop your ability to work independently in order to outline, undertake and realise a significant self-initiated body of work. This module can be undertaken in different ways; either by creating a full practice-based body of work or, by supporting this with further research in the form of a dissertation. These different routes through the module will allow you to focus on your own individual strategies for development and will be supported through seminars and tutorials. You will research and contextualise your Fine Art practice building on your conceptual awareness as relevant to your own discipline, developing the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to construct a body of practice and understand the contextual framework of that practice and the ideas/concepts that drive it. The Master’s Project is the culmination of the modular structure of the MA Fine Art and as such will evidence the prior learning undertaken during the course. The project will enable students to fully realise an independent professional body of work.

Module: 7FP010

Credits: 40

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This Module aims to provide you with the opportunity to further develop your fine art practice. The Indicative programmed lecture series within this module aims to provide an in - depth critical and theoretical understanding of key concepts in relation to fine art theory, with particular resonance on the avant- garde, modernism, minimalism and conceptualism and this will enable students to relate key concepts and strategies from these traditions to the issues, problems and contexts of contemporary practice , and the concerns of their own studio work and fine art practice.

Module: 7FP006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to provide you with the opportunity to develop independently a body of fine art practice. The module also aims to provide you with an understanding and awareness of the key contemporary theoretical and critical developments in theory relating to fine art, which you will elaborate theoretically and practically. The module will draw the theoretical problems of contemporary art closer to the work in the studio. Themes and issues to be discussed could be: the dissolution or dematerialization of the art object; the re-functioning of painting after the readymade; the deconstruction of the author and the notion of the collective author; and art and the notion of a counter-culture. Overarching these issues will be a more general discussion of the rise of postmodernism and the idea of the ‘end of the avant-garde’.

Module: 7AD001

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will provide an opportunity for you to fully develop the professional skills required to present your work to external audiences and to engage with the professional sphere. The module aims to resource you with the skill set required to manage yourself as a practitioner in your own field and is designed specifically to provide training in this area that you may not have gained at undergraduate level or as part of your previous experience. It will provide you with the opportunity to gain studio based or industrial experience in an area related to your own practice and will present the learning required to establish your own business and/or prepare you for work within small and medium sized arts enterprises. It will introduce the managerial and administrative skills that are essential for you to succeed in a professional environment. You will research and identify funding systems and policies appropriate to your own discipline, develop marketing strategies and consolidate your skills in self-management. You will be encouraged to self-negotiate a placement or live project of your own choice. This can include as an example, a portfolio review, writing a teaching programme, designing and developing workshops and master classes, planning a public exhibition or delivery of practice in any other professional context. Students will be encouraged to collaborate/negotiate with professionals to gain industrial experience.

Module: 7FP007

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Optional

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

The module aims to resource you with the knowledge and awareness required to operate independently as an advanced practitioner in your specified field of fine art practice and to support you in developing new work whilst reflecting on the ways in which you direct and manage this process. It looks to enhance your awareness of differing correlations between methodological, conceptual and practical considerations within your practice, reflecting on the appropriateness or otherwise of different ways of working in relation to the ideas by which your practice is informed, whilst simultaneously increasing your understanding of the interconnectedness of production and reception. You will develop the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to pursue a body of work, contextualise it and understand the methodological implications of the ideas/concepts that drive it, whilst refining the critical, practical and contextual impetus of your subsequent work.

The Fine Art Course provides a studio intensive programme supported through theoretical and contextual lecture series, studio based seminar critique and individual tutorials. The ethos of the course is to provide students with the time and space to develop ideas and practice towards the final off-site MA exhibition; this includes the structure of personal research and the development of the critical and/or theoretical emphasis behind your work in order to understand the methodological framework of your working practice.

You will have time to reappraise and analyse previous work, develop new ideas in relation to your practice and it’s theoretical underpinning then consolidate those ideas practically. Finally you will bring those ideas and your work to resolution and focus towards the MA exhibition. The course provides students with the knowledge, ambition and structure in order to proceed towards their future career ambitions. Within the programme you will have the opportunity to develop your awareness of exhibition and the display of your work as well as the audiences for that work. The MA Fine Art course will support you in structuring an advanced independent practice, underpinned by sustained critical engagement.

The course leader is Dean Kelland

As a student on this course you will have the opportunity to develop your artistic practice, supported by leading artists and researchers, whilst gaining the ability to work independently in order to think through complex practical problems, theoretical and contextual issues within your practice and methods for presenting that practice to a regional, national and international audience. The support from your colleagues and peers on the course constructs a network for critical debate, through different modes of practice; students on the course work through very different arts practices including (but not limited to) painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, film and video, photography, performance, new and/or digital media, sound installation, live art and social practices.

The course will provide you with the knowledge and key abilities and strategies to further your artistic career independently.

Location Mode Fee Year Home/EU Full-time £6400 per year 2020-21 Home/EU Part-time Day and Evening £3200 per year 2020-21 Home Full-time £6550 per year 2021-22 Home Part-time Day and Evening £3275 per year 2021-22 International Full-time £13350 per year 2020-21 International Full-time £13950 per year 2021-22

These fees relate to new entrants only for the academic year indicated for entry onto the course, any subsequent years study may be subject to an annual increase, usually in line with inflation.

You should have a good Honours Degree (2:2 or above) or equivalent in a relevant subject.

A good standard of written and spoken English (IELTS 6.5 or equivalent) is required.

Offers are subject to an interview and portfolio review.

International Applicants

Your qualifications need to be deemed equivalent to the above entry requirements.

• English Language requirements are normally IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each area (unless otherwise stated) or equivalent accepted qualification
• Please use the following link to see the range of English Language Pre-Sessional courses and related Pre-Masters courses offered by the University of Wolverhampton International Academy.
• For further information relating to overseas qualification please use the following link

Matthew Evans

MA Fine Art

Matthew Evans completed his MA Fine Art with distinction and has since received several commissions for his innovative new approach; creating bespoke modern-day coat of arms,including a £10k commission for the The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He has also been selected for the New Art West Midlands 2013 Exhibition at Birmingham Art Gallery Museum which showcases the best of West Midland's graduates.

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"As a result of studying the MA course I have grown professionally as an artist. By adopting a 'take a risk' attitude I have been able to further refine my artistic practice and anchor it within the most critically interesting areas