MA Painting

Program Overview

This MA Painting program emphasizes fostering critically reflective artists who engage with contemporary painting issues. Through modules on locating, questioning, and articulating painting practices, students develop advanced technical skills, explore material innovations, and refine their artistic aims. The program prepares graduates for careers in professional art, education, and administration, providing opportunities for exhibitions, industry partnerships, and employability support.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This innovative MA painting course focuses on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues. The course provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history. This course:

• Is focused on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues.
• Provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.
• Is structured to build your skills, creative inquiry, and career prospects within fine art painting.
• Develops advanced technical abilities and material innovations while immersed in critical painting methodologies.
• Emphasises cultivating creative thinking, conceptual rigor and employability.
• Progresses through practice-based research helping find innovative solutions to aesthetic and conceptual challenges.
• Will refine your artistic aims within contemporary painting.
• Is guided by independent and collaborative learning, you will progress through workshops, critiques and seminars aimed to foster a versatile, inquisitive and dynamic painting practitioner engaging with the creative economy.

Outline:

The MA Painting course has a 3-module structure allowing logical progression through defining, expanding, and articulating your practice via painting. MODULES:

• Locating (Core): The Locating module is the critical foundation of the MA Painting program.
Through intensive material exploration, contextual research, and analytical critiques, students will scrutinise the fundamental technical, conceptual, and theoretical dimensions of painting practice. The module focuses on positioning each student's work within the broader contexts of art history, culture, politics, and philosophy. Students will cultivate a critical language to articulate the complex relationship between painting, identity, and society.
• Questioning (Core): The Questioning module focuses on strengthening students' painting practice by situating it within philosophical debates and cultural discussions surrounding the evolving nature of the medium.
Students will take conceptual risks and push conventional techniques through material experimentation that challenges traditional definitions of painting. The Questioning module equips students to effectively engage with contemporary painting discourse through both visual and written formats.
• Articulating (Core): The Articulating module focuses on developing a cohesive body of painting work to exhibit publicly, situating students' practices within the contemporary art world.
Together with this, students will refine skills in writing, verbal articulation, exhibition curation, and professional documentation to effectively communicate the significance of their artistic vision. The Articulating module ensures students can proficiently navigate and articulate their work in professional arts settings.

Assessment:

Teaching and assessment on the MA Painting programme takes diverse forms aligned with a practice-based curriculum. Over the course of the programme, you will engage in a diverse range of teaching and learning approaches including tutor guidance and peer collaboration. You will produce practice-based studio work and keep reflective journals documenting your creative progress, artistic analyses and developing understanding of painting histories and theories. Your participation in routine critiques and self-reflective writing foster critical and philosophical thinking about your growth. Exhibitions of select works allow you to publicly present resolved pieces for review. In addition, you will submit summative written elements contextualizing your practice within critical frameworks.

Teaching:

Teaching and assessment on the MA Painting programme takes diverse forms aligned with a practice-based curriculum. Over the course of the programme, you will engage in a diverse range of teaching and learning approaches including tutor guidance and peer collaboration. A studio-situated teaching model combines practical workshops, lectures, seminars, and independent study.

Careers:

Our Careers & Employability service is there to help you make decisions and plan the next steps towards a bright future. This programme is designed to help improve students’ employability, as it will equip them with the skills needed when working in art and design interdisciplinary practices, such as:

• Professional Artist/Painter
• Art Teacher (Schools, Colleges, Universities)
• Gallery Curator/Manager
• Museum Educator
• Art Critic/Writer
• Art Consultant
• Public Art Coordinator
• Arts Administrator
• Community Arts Worker
• PhD in Fine Art/Painting
• PhD in Art History/Theory
• PhD in Art Education
• Additional certifications (e.g.
Art Therapy)

Other:

Guest lectures, industry partnerships, and optional work placements provide insight into real-world contexts, expanding networks and employability prospects. Regular exhibitions, critiques and peer collaboration mirror professional fine art settings, encouraging critical reflection and communication abilities. Opportunities to exhibit both on and off-campus nurture creative entrepreneurship. The hybrid delivery approach efficiently utilises on-campus facilities while enabling remote learning.

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