MA in Fine Art

Status: Applications open for 2023

Level

Duration

1 Year Full-Time

Department

Art & Design

Start Date

02/10/2023

Course Type

Postgraduate Taught courses

Location

Clare Street

Our new practice-based MA in Fine Art is ground-breaking within its field; it positions learning in relation to a broad range of infrastructures, supports and external centres of connectivity that will in turn scaffold students’ professional practice on completion. This MA in Fine Art will enable postgraduate students drawn from the fields of fine art, cultural production, and creative thinking to establish links and a commonality between their art-based research and complementary research carried out within the cultural infrastructures of art, film, theatre and design, and within broader research in fields of science, technology, and social sciences.

This exciting Masters in Fine Art programme encourages and promotes the discovery of the individual artistic language of every student and where to site their professional artistic practice. The focus is on the core concerns of art practice in the real world, residencies, exhibitions, funding, partnerships, and application processes.

The MA aims to nurture the development of future artists, cultural producers, and creative thinkers. It will give students the tools to identify networks, opportunities and to enable them to confidently, research, write, collaborate, manage major projects, and disseminate research and creative work.

What are the entry requirements?

Any primary degree with a minimum award of Second-Class Honours Grade 2. Recognition of prior experiential learning (RPL) from applicants will also be considered for places based on relevant professional and life experience.

You will be required to attend an interview in person, or online together with members of the program team and prepare a short statement of intent that outlines your reasons for embarking on this course of study.

International Applicants

Non-EU applicants should apply directly to the International Office at TUS allowing plenty of time for completing the visa process.
Contact: International@LIT.ie

Who can I contact?

Michael Minnis and Michael McLoughlin
mafineart@lit.ie

What modules will I study?

Year 1

Title: Circuits of Dissemination

Credits: 10
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The way you present work and the means to go about it.

Title: Context: Critical & Contextual

Credits: 10
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Critical examination of your practice through different conceptual and philosophical frames.

Title: Creative Practices of Knowledge

Credits: 10
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The research methodologies that enable you to undertake postgraduate artistic research.

Title: Ecologies of Practice

Credits: 10
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The networks and structures that enable your practice to exist.

Title: Major Project: Navigating Practice

Credits: 50
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The planning, negotiating, researching, realising, and reflecting on a body of work. This happens through 3 consecutive stages: Negotiation, Residency and Realisation.

Are there opportunities for further study?

Yes, upon successful completion of the Masters in Fine Art programme graduates will be able to go on to pursue further study at PhD level.

What are the career prospects?

This is a practical MA in Fine Art aimed at preparing you for your professional life post-graduation. It will enable you to continue to make artwork, to exhibit, to develop a practice network and importantly to sustain an art making practice that relates to your personal goals.

Art practice post-graduation can appear daunting. This MA is designed to make it less so and to empower you to develop the infrastructures you need. You will be able to navigate the precarity to find sustainability finding/creating networks, collaboration and mechanisms of dissemination specific to your work.

The MA IN Fine Art equips you with the following tools/skills;

Studio based research methods
Development of artistic language
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Independent Learning
Siting practice within creative industries
Siting practice in local/national/international economy & society
Studio/Post Studio Practice
Critical thinking
Dissemination
Realisation and Presentation of Artworks
Peer Learning
Collaboration with peers
Deal with precariat

MA in Fine Art

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What’s so special about the MA in Fine Art programme?

This MA in Fine Art aims to prepare and empower students for their chosen professional path. In order to do this, the programme has a number of distinct features:

This is an Art practice focused programme
There is a Residency core to the programme
The MA in Fine Art emphasises external engagement and the development of networks and supports
It nurtures development of the students own professional identity
Emphasis on developing research literacies specifically relevant to creative practice
Creates opportunities for candidate to engage with critical discourses structured around pertinent topics relevant to their practice such as infrastructures, policy, sustainability, ecologies, economies, societies and their own ‘art worlds’
Create a clear understanding of the dissemination of artistic research and artworks