Program Overview

MA Fine Art (Ceramics)

Overview

MA Fine Art (Ceramics) at Bath Spa is designed to fully develop your individual creative potential as a ceramicist within a Fine Art context.

What you'll learn

• Learn to adopt an interdisciplinary and material-led approach, based on experimentation, risk-taking and personal innovation.
• Identify your individual position as an artist and learn to promote and exhibit your work professionally.
• Take a holistic approach, embedding theory, research, and historical and contemporary practice into your work.

Course structure

MA Fine Art (Ceramics) runs over one year and is divided into three trimesters.

Trimester one

• Begin to take chances and challenge your creative processes.
• Interrogate your existing knowledge and develop skills in an environment that encourages playfulness and artistic risk-taking.

Trimester two

• Building on the work in the first trimester, you’ll maintain an experimental approach, but start to narrow your focus.
• Evaluate your initial studio developments and refine your working strategy.
• Pay greater attention to the presentation of your practice and test how finished works relate to each other in, as well as to the spaces of, exhibition sites.

Trimester three

• Work in the studio with increasing independence as you establish a professional practice.
• Devise and complete your Master’s Project, working to a proposal which contextualises your work within your specialist discipline and leads to your final Degree Show.

Course modules

• Research Methods
• Theory and Professional Context
• Practice 1 (Fine Art)
• Research Practice
• Theory and Professional Practices
• Practice 2 (Fine Art)
• Masters Project

Assessment

Your progress is evaluated throughout the course and at the end of each trimester through a mixture of exhibitions, verbal/visual presentations, research folders/blogs and written assignments.

Teaching and learning

• Learn through lectures, talks, taught sessions, individual and group tutorials, and studio critiques and seminars.
• Visiting lecturers and seminars with external professionals and internationally renowned designers and artists will help you determine where your current practice sits within the industry.
• Collaborate with other artists as part of an international art community.

Facilities and resources

• Comprehensive digital workshops and specialist art and design facilities.
• Access to studio space where you can work on projects and refine your practice and your research.
• Locksbrook Campus, a Grade II listed building designed by Nicholas Grimshaw in 1976, transformed into an innovative, open plan space.

Fees

• 2025 entry:
  • UK full time: £9,950
  • UK part time: £4,975
  • International full time: £18,560

Entry requirements

• A good honours degree or equivalent.
• Some courses also require an interview or the submission of a portfolio of work.

Related courses

• MA Fine Art
• MA Fine Art (Curatorial Practice)
• MA Fine Art (Photography)
• MA Design