The MA Fine Art at Middlesex University enables you to both develop your Fine Art practice, and orientate your art work in relation to London's exciting and thriving international contemporary art scene.

 

Through a series of guided gallery tours, meetings with curators and other art professionals, you are encouraged to make new work, and identify both contexts and conversations that are relevant to your artistic trajectory. This teaching will be complimented and supported with weekly seminars, developing your own art practice through critical dialogue and the use of Middlesex University's state of the art on campus technical workshop facilities. At the same time, you will be supported by experienced artists in the planning, curation and publicity for public exhibition. The course culminates in an extended in-depth period of artistic development, enabling you to refine your art practice, supporting you in the production of a professional standard body of work and the MA Fine Art exhibition, which will be open to the public.

 

Why study MA Fine Art* at Middlesex University?

On our MA in Fine Art, you will explore the creative, cultural, political and social questions of art practice. The course offers the opportunity to further your knowledge and skills by undertaking a systematic and comprehensive major body of work.

 

Our course is flexibly designed to also offer you the chose of studying Printmaking as a specialism. You will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of new and traditional print-making practices (silkscreen, etching, lithography, letterpress etc.) and enhance your skills though experimentation, research and critical analysis.

 

The Fine Art course welcomes students who work across a range of disciplines that include painting, sculpture, photography and film, printmaking, installation, sound, performance, 'event' making, and other relational and socially engaged practices.

 

At Middlesex, we take both a highly practical and a critical approach to Fine Art that ensures you spend the majority of your postgraduate study time in researching and making. This combination of in-depth analysis and hands-on experience will enable you to draw on a wide range of expertise and resources while questioning and developing your practice in a contemporary context to stimulate a successful career.

 

Studying Fine Art in London puts you at the heart of the ever-shifting nature of international contemporary fine art practice with direct access to London's art world. You'll have the opportunity to make regular visits to Tate Modern and Tate Britain, further world class museums and exhibitions, the vibrant, contemporary gallery scene, and to attend such international showcases as Frieze.