Program Overview

Fine Art MA

Course Overview

Join our Fine Art MA and refine your artistic practice through experimentation, innovation, and applied research at the renowned Falmouth School of Art. Learn to evaluate your own process and those of others, explore essential techniques, and use modern technologies in an open space of experimentation, positioning your work in a real-world context.

Key Details

• Location: Falmouth Campus
• Course duration: 1 year
• Attendance: Full-time

Course Details

Explore and Refine Your Practice

Tapping into 120 years of creativity and learning from practicing lecturers, you’ll develop your critical voice, test and challenge your practice, and form a sustainable approach to the production and dissemination of your work.

You'll be challenged to embrace the social, cultural, economic, technological, and political context for contemporary art, through practice-led enquiry, where emphasis can be placed on several different creative processes such as painting, print, sculpture, installation, and time-based digital methods.

Modules

• Review, Make, Reflect (30 credits)
• Considering Contextual Fields (30 credits)
• Test Space (30 credits)
• Sustaining a Practice (30 credits)
• Completion (60 credits)

How You'll Learn & Be Assessed

How You'll Learn

The Fine Art MA takes place over three semesters studied over a one-year full-time period. Combining taught and independent study, you’ll engage in lectures, seminars, tutorials, collaborative practice, and peer reviews.

How You'll Be Assessed

• 100% coursework assessed. There are no formal exams on this course.
• Assessment methods:
  • Exhibitions
  • Portfolios of work
  • Written assessments
  • Thesis and major projects
  • Presentations

Facilities

• Dedicated workshops for 3D and bronze casting foundry, wood working, printmaking, paint preparation, laser cutting, and rapid prototyping
• Access to studio facilities
• Digital imaging facilities
• Textile and fashion workshops
• Video and photography facilities
• Performance and sound facilities
• Library facilities featuring over 140,000 books and 17,000 video titles and over 400 journal titles
• Archives or radio, slides, pictures, maps, and archive collections

Meet Our Staff

• Dr. Tom Baugh, Head of Art
• Dr. David Paton, Senior Lecturer MA Fine Art and BA(Hons) Drawing
• Karen Abadie, Associate Lecturer, Drawing BA(Hons)

Careers

Graduates from our Fine Art MA could work as:

• Independent artist
• Teaching
• Research assistant
• Curator
• Gallery owner
• Small start-up business
• Consultancy business
• Artist-led organisations
• Museology
• Publishing
• Technician
• Art movers
• Art restorers
• Arts administration

How to Apply

• We welcome applications from those with relevant equivalent Level 6 qualifications, or relevant equivalent experience, and a demonstrable interest in the subject.
• We’ll also welcome your application if you have formal or 'certified' learning (such as training courses not run by universities or colleges) and learning from work experience or self-study.
• Language requirements: If English isn’t your first language, you'll need to demonstrate English language skills that are sufficiently developed for successful completion of your studies.

Fees, Costs & Funding

• Tuition fees: £11,200 per year – full-time UK, £21,000 per year – full-time EU/international
• Typical course costs:
  • £400-£500 - annual cost for equipment and materials for your practice.
  • £800 - for optional international and national study visit.
• Postgraduate funding: There are loans, awards, graduate discounts, and alternative funding sources for postgraduate studies.

Ask a Student

What better way to find out about life at Falmouth University than by asking our current students? From course details and academic support, to the social scene and settling in, our students are ready and available to answer any questions you might have.