Master of Fine Arts - Fine Art
- 2 years
- Duration
- 11,700 GBP/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Master
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Farnham / United Kingdom
- Location
Program description
The MFA Fine Art degree programme at UCA is a postgraduate course with a critical orientation that strives to respond to contemporary perspectives and various types of fine art practise.
You'll create a conceptual framework to examine traditional and contingent means of distribution through your artistic activity, supported by significant contemporary theoretical discussions and critical techniques. You will also have access to the extensive facilities at UCA Farnham, including our wood and metal workshop, bronze foundry, film and photographic studios, print-media workshops, ceramics, glass, and computer aided cutting facilities, allowing you to pursue medium-specific investigation or develop more speculative practise methods.
You will frequently have the chance to actively curate your practise during the semester, both on campus in our project spaces and off campus. This programme also comes with the unusual option of being studied part-time over a period of three years. This option is perfect for artists, arts professionals, and people juggling other personal and professional responsibilities.
You can choose the Integrated International Pre-Masters, a year-long preparatory programme of study to get you ready for your master's in the UK, improving your speaking and writing skills in English along with your specialty skills, research knowledge, and self-confidence.
Program structure
Year one
- Critical Perspectives
This unit offers a thorough analytical framework for analysing a variety of theoretical perspectives. It provides you with the chance to look into and define the main driving forces behind your artistic work and its larger critical context.
- Research and Practice
You'll examine how research interacts and how it relates to creation and dissemination. You can test, assess, document, and then present speculative practice-oriented methods in this unit, which is guided by a set of critically stated conceptual and theoretical issues. Through a series of curatorial projects, workshops, and technical sessions related to your study and objectives, you will be exposed to and examined specialised tools, methods, concepts, and processes pertinent to the vast span of Fine Art practises.
- Professional Practice and Negotiated Study
Planning an independent project can help you locate your own artistic practise in the context of other external areas. This will occur in conjunction with an exciting Professional Practice lecture series where there will be live briefings and industry engagement focusing on improving your knowledge and expertise of professional practise. This promotes the idea that all forms of activity require a public forum and offers the platform for research and practise. You will collaborate with your peer group to curate and start an interim show in London at the conclusion of the year.
Year two
- Advanced Practice
By examining, investigating, and reflecting on current methods from Year 1, you will further hone your practise. You will also be solidifying your studies during this period by confronting, discussing, curating, and addressing significant debates pertaining to your artistic work within the larger Fine Art environment. By concentrating your research, you will uncover unique approaches and situations for thinking about your work while creating a custom web presence for a viable art practise in the future.
- Final Major Project
The culmination of your studies, this course will serve as an explication of the key concepts and ideas that you have developed during your MFA programme. During a period of intense self-directed study, it provides an opportunity to finish earlier tasks and show evidence of advanced conceptual, theoretical, and technical capabilities. Prior to the MFA Display, when you will present an ambitious group show as the pinnacle of your fine art practise in a London location, your professional web presence will be further enhanced.
Price
Fee for two semesters (1 year) for international students is:
- Integrated International Pre-Masters course - 17,500 GBP
- MFA course - year 1 - 11,700 GBP
We have offer a range of scholarships and fee discounts.
Requirements for applicants
If you do not have qualifications from the United Kingdom, we will accept equivalent qualifications from your native country for admittance into our programs.
In addition to academic credentials, some of our courses require a portfolio of previous work.
For our Master's courses, we usually require that you have successful completion of your Bachelor's degree or equivalent from a recognised university.
English Language requirements for MA/MSc & MBA courses:
- IELTS UKVI or Academic - Listening 5.5, Reading 5.5, Speaking 5.5, Writing 5.5, Total 6.5
- Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT - Listening 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20, Writing 17, Total 90
- Pearson Test of English (Academic) - Listening 59, Reading 59, Speaking 59, Writing 59, Total 59
- Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency - Listening 162, Reading 162, Speaking 162, Writing 162, Total 176
- Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) - Listening Pass, Reading Pass, Speaking Pass, Writing Pass, Total ISE III
- LanguageCert International ESOL SELT - Listening 38, Reading 38, Speaking 38, Writing 38, Total B2 Communicator High Pass
Portfolio requirements
We'll need to examine your written or graphic portfolio for these courses in order to review it. Once you've applied, we'll send you an invitation to submit your portfolio via your applicant portal; more details will be given at that time. This can also be arranged for you if you would prefer to evaluate your work with the Academic Team in person while on campus.
About the university
The UCA team firmly believes that creativity enhances the vitality, innovation, and humanity of global communities. That is why the university has been a fervent supporter of creative research and teaching for the past 160 years.
Architecture, crafts, fashion, graphic design, illustration, fine art, photography, film, media, the performing arts, and creative business are among areas of study offered by the university. Employers in the creative sector hold a high regard for this programs because of their excellent teaching standards.
We want to inspire people to use their creativity to drive change, overcome challenges and improve the lives of others.
So we’ve designed our university to be an inclusive, dynamic environment. Our campuses across Surrey and Kent, our Institute for Creative Innovation in Xiamen, China, and our homes within partner organisations such as the Maidstone Television Studios all have one thing in common: they are places to forge inspiring partnerships, make work with purpose and build real solutions to human problems across the globe – whether that’s as part of our vibrant teaching and research community, or as a student on one of our courses.
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