Fine Art MA (Online)

This module asks you to open your practice to creative partnership and innovation. You will plan and deliver a public-facing project, whilst gaining insight into different frameworks and ethical considerations for collaborative practice. 

During the module you will explore different possibilities for collaboration as an artist, asking how cooperative and innovative ways of working can grow the ambition – and inform the ethics – of your practice. 

You will be invited to devise and develop a collaborative project relevant to your work and contexts. You will be working towards a public facing outcome, which might include – but is not limited to – an exhibition or event, a publication or performance, activity in the landscape or civic space, or activity online. You might need to explore strategies for ethical collaboration in your locality, a new context, or at a distance.  

You will critically evaluate your work in a report at the conclusion of the module and consider the relationship between your intentions and the processes and audiences with whom you engage. 

This module addresses the impact of art practice environmentally, socially and economically. It asks you to consider strategies that will support you to sustain life as an artist in the long term and contribute to renewal. 

The module offers time, space and learning resources that enable you to consider what sustainability means to you. Engaging with discourse that addresses the contingent times we're living in, you’ll reflect upon the politics and values within your own and others' work. 

By exploring a variety of creative strategies for the development of innovative contemporary art practice, you'll devise strategies and processes that are conscious of environmental and social impact, as well as your own wellbeing, preparing you to participate thoughtfully in new communities of practice and sustain your life as an artist beyond the course. 

Sustainable Strategies invites you to take risks in the studio, to develop new skills sets, and to produce an experimental artist film, reflecting on questions of sustainability and renewal within your studio work. 

(30 credits) 

This module provides the opportunity for you to research historical and contemporary contexts and theory. It supports you to address the debates, complex global networks and positions that surround your art practice. 

Operating like a cultural critic or theorist, during this module you have the opportunity to research the historical and contemporary contexts within which your practice takes place.  

The subjects of this research will be in relation to your own studio work, but not directly about it. Through your analysis of sources, you'll formulate your own position and develop your ability to enhance your subject knowledge.  

You will reflect upon and critically interrogate positions in a manner consistent with contemporary academic discourse and professional practice in the development of a written essay or recorded lecture. 

(30 credits) 

This module takes place over two Study Blocks (30 weeks) and supports you to propose, research and produce an ambitious public-facing project, located within defined critical and professional contexts. 

The module aims to support your increasingly independent practice as an artist, to enhance and synthesise the skills and knowledge you have gained from previous modules, and to challenge your practice and thinking as an artist to create ambitious, critically engaged, and thought-provoking new work. 

Throughout your Final Major Project, you will be supported in 1:1 supervision to research, develop and produce a body of work that articulates your position – your practical and conceptual motivations as a practicing contemporary artist. You will consolidate the critical reflection and professional practice skills you have developed throughout the course to produce an ambitious public-facing outcome and an evaluative portfolio of practice. 

On completion of this module, we celebrate graduate projects within our course community and on public-facing platforms. Graduates are also invited to join our alumni community.