Fine Art

Practice driven and focused on the analysis, reappraisal and development of your existing practice. Identification and exploration of new concepts and approaches negotiated through an individual Working Synopsis. The module is informed by the School of Art’s international research strengths in Fine Art and will engage with national and international research agendas.

Driven and focused on the development of your practice through the realisation of a comprehensive and coherent body of work, this module builds upon the previous Practice 1 module and provides an opportunity to sustain the development of practice over a concentrated period of time. Within this module you will be expected to resolve a comprehensive understanding of their practice, its place in relation to the broader related discipline and the potential professionalisation and sustainability of future practice. You will be expected to be able to communicate the summary learning journey of your programme of study, the relevant methodologies used to develop your practice and the future professional pathways being explored. There is a break within this module to allow for a period of reflection that will contribute towards the final written component necessary for assessment.

This module extends your understanding of the professional context of Contemporary Curating, contemporary Fine Art, and Painting practices. Through an examination of artworld institutions and structures you will be guided to consider a range of possible positions that the contemporary artist or curator can occupy in the professional domain. The module will extend your experience into the professional sphere, either through a practical project, research context, exchange, work experience, or other negotiated professional set of interactions with an external partner and/or peer group of students.

This module offers focussed opportunity for students to extend and enhance their practice by including working in a wider design research community. The study of the cultural and critical contexts of design practice is vital to any student of the creative disciplines, this module will develop Master’s students’ abilities to contextualise their practice through a series of themes addressing contemporary issue in design.

This module is centred on continuation of your practice aligned to the research and selection of appropriate public or professional venues or platforms with which to disseminate a significant body of work.  Through the module you will be asked to approach, propose, negotiate and progress a plan for the dissemination of your body of work.

This is the final module towards an MFA award in which you are required to realise a significant body of work for a public audience in whatever form is most appropriate along with any implicit publicity and dissemination material. Work at this level is significantly self determined and as such you will be asked to define and appraise your own learning outcomes through negotiation.