MA Fine Art

at University of East London

MODULES

Year 1

CORE MODULES

Developing Independent Practice

You will develop your personal studio practice with the support of tutorials and seminars. A wide range of appropriate media workshops staffed by technical demonstrators are available for you to develop your individual process, including wood, metal, print, film, video, digital media. The module element underpins and provides context for personal creative studio practice.

Research and Practice Methods
 

The critical concepts module underpins and provides context for your personal creative studio practice.

The critical concepts element of the module introduces you to the central concepts and ideas of the theoretical debate taking place around contemporary art practice, nationally and internationally.

Examples will be taken from the practices of painting, printmaking, sculpture, film installation, video and photography in order to explore the critical backdrop to those practices. Lectures and seminars will include topics such as: postmodernism and the expanded field of art, drawing, the photographic image, exhibition politics, participatory and socially-engaged art through the elaboration of theories about gender, ethnicity, authorship, politics and psychoanalysis.

Interim exhibition
 

• You will continue to develop advanced independent work, realised in an interim exhibition.
• You will explore models of artistic practice and debate current professional practice procedures.

Professional Life (Mental Wealth)

Realisation of Practice and MA Exhibition
 

• You will develop a body of independent, personal work for the MA exhibition. You will develop a mature level of analytical understanding and verbal articulation of your own work.
• You will engage critically in the process of exhibition, including curation, installation, presentation, documentation and promotion of the exhibition in response to the needs of your work.
• You will contribute to the creation of group online presence in the form of a year group website to promote your work.

English Language requirements
 

Overall IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in Writing, Speaking, Reading and Listening (or recognised equivalent).

If you do not meet the academic English language requirements for your course, you may be eligible to enrol onto a pre-sessional English programme. The length of the course will depend on your current level of English and the requirements for your degree programme.

International Fees Full time, 1 year
£14,760 Per year

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