MFA Fine Art at York St John University

Develop as an artist and refine your creative practice. Experiment, explore and encourage your professional practice to emerge. Our Fine Art MFA enables you to enrich your existing practice and develop as a professional artist in a creative community. You will produce a mature body of work, coexisting with debates at the forefront of your discipline. The course focuses on a practical approach as you also engage with contemporary debates within your discipline. We will support you to research, develop and refine your ideas as your practice and your academic understanding become inseparable.

Faculty: School of the Arts  |  Duration: 2 years full time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027, September 2028  |  Location: York, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Compulsory modules include Experiment; Coëxistents; Explore; Emerge; Confirm Fine Art.

Career pathways

This course is designed to give you significant industry exposure to increase your opportunities for employment once you graduate. You will study specialist modules that require you to work with external partners in publishing, exhibitions, agencies and education. Example roles include Artist; Advertising art director; Commercial art gallery manager; Community arts worker; Exhibition designer; Museum or gallery curator.

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