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MA Fine Art

Why choose this course?

  • The MA Fine Art programme is an exciting, challenging and rigorous programme of study that addresses the multifaceted needs of today's visual artist.
  • The programme will provide you with the opportunity to engage in taught studio-based research, under-pinned by a strong theoretical awareness of contemporary practice.
  • It will encourage, critical reflection on personal practice, awareness of the relationship which artists have to the cultural industries on a national and international stage, curatorial involvement and the consideration of public reception involving general and specialist audiences, the nurturing of independent learning and scholarship which may also lead to further study at MPhil/PhD level.
  • The programme will prepare you for successful emergence in an ever changing, complex and pluralistic creative world.

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Start date: September and January

Course length: full time: one year, part time: three years.

Campus: Markeaton Street site, Derby Campus

This course is available to international students

About this course

The MA Fine Art is a professionally taught programme delivered through seminars, tutorials, peer reviews and guest lectures. You will be taught in a studio environment that facilitates and encourages rigorous creative enquiry. All of our work areas such as our workshops and studios are well resourced. 

You will be taught by a group of highly trained, professional, research active staff that have a diversity of conceptual approaches and skills. And as part of the programme you will go on study visits to regional and national museums and galleries.

While on the MA Fine Art programme you will have the opportunity to study at the University of Porto.

Contemporary Fine Art practice embraces a wide and diverse spectrum of activity. The staff base reflects this broad range and we have expertise in the areas: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film and Video, Installation based work, Environmental Art, Public Art, Performance, Text based work and Artists Books, Curatorship and Exhibition Organisation. The staff team also have expertise in the areas of Critical Theory, Art History, the Philosophy of Art, Art Criticism and Journalism. All members of staff are practicing artists, writers or theorists and are members of Research Groups with in the School. The team have amongst them, a Reader in Fine Art and a Reader in the History and Theory of Art. Several members have experience of PhD supervision. Several are currently in post as External Examiners at other UK Art & Design Institutions. Many have been successful in bidding for Research Funding and recent projects have enabled the continuation of personal projects as well as projects which feed back in to the curriculum and enhance the student experience.

What you will cover

Stage one

You'll study theses modules

Stage two

You'll study these modules

Stage three

You'll study this module: 

Entry requirements

General entry requirements

How to apply

UK/EU students

International students

Information for international applicants

Applying for an postgraduate degree

Fees and finance

UK/EU students

  • £495 per module (you usually take 9 of these modules in total)

International students

  • Full time: £10,500 (in total)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

Where will I study?

Markeaton Street site, Derby Campus

Contact details

General enquiries about admissions and applications, UK and overseas

T: +44 (0)1332 591167
F: +44 (0)1332 597724
E: askadmissions@derby.ac.uk

‌Course enquiries

Contact: Rodger Brown
Phone: +44 (0)1332 593216