MA Fine Art

Fine Art at NUCA provides a stimulating and creative environment to help you challenge and define your practice within the context of professional and contemporary possibilities. The course will support you to develop and enhance the skills you require to generate an art practice of high quality.

MA Fine Art will enable you to engage in a range of studio practice and students may elect to specialise in or combine areas such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, photography, moving image and sound work and there is potential for students to work collaboratively as well as individually. Throughout the course there are inductions to technical workshops that will give you access to these resources throughout your studies.

The course places a strong emphasis on understanding audience and the impact of location on how work is received, through sessions that focus on exhibition and curation as integral considerations in the production of studio work. Additionally, students have access to a regular visiting lecture series which invites artists, and other professional practitioners to talk about their work and experience within the creative industries.

Teaching will promote critical debate and dialogue in relation to different studio traditions and various applications or outcomes for art work, to help you contextualise and understand your own practice. The written work on the course is focused around your own studio interests.

Fine Art staff are established practising artists who regularly exhibit or contribute to conferences and publications and they will provide guidance on the professional options and direction open to you on graduation.