MA Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University

Develop your artistic practice and advance your research skills. Join us in our Cambridge studios for our intensive, critically engaged Fine Art Master's course.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences  |  Department: Cambridge School of Art  |  Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

This Master's degree will enable you to develop your practice at an advanced level and to increase your theoretical and contextual knowledge and understanding of fine art. You will be introduced to critical and practice-based research methods in the creative and visual arts and examine the implications of considering practice as research within art and design disciplines. Year 1: Critical Art Practices, Artistic Research and Practices, Situating Practice: Independent Research Project, Site, Place and Curatorial Strategies, Fine Art Master's Project.

Career pathways

Our MA Fine Art course will prepare you for work as a practicing artist, and you will also gain skills and knowledge that will equip you for related roles. As well as continuing their artistic practices, through which they have taken up artist residencies, research and fellowship opportunities and public art projects in the UK and abroad, our MA Fine Art graduates also pursue careers in further and higher education, museum and gallery management and curation.

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