Fine Art

This Fine Art MA course fromUniversity of Leeds aims to provide the basis for your future professional art practice, curatorial engagement or academic research at a higher level, allowing you to develop a body of work within the contexts of the studio, production, dissemination and audience.

Within this Fine Art MA course from University of Leeds we encourage applications from artists working, or wishing to work in, studio-based, socially engaged practice, or collaborative practice, as artist curators, as art writers or within art education.

You'll develop your art practice in our purpose built studios, working towards a final exhibition, supported by a series of seminars, tutorials, group critiques and a visiting speaker program. Assessments include a variety of professional-facing formats, such as personal statements, academic writing, portfolio, and project plans.

The Fine Art course from University of Leeds is taught by practising artists, writers and theorists and supported by the region’s internationally recognised resources including the Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery, the National Science and Media Museum, The Tetley and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

As well as studio and exhibition work, you will take an optional module to explore critical and theoretical issues such as aesthetics, deconstruction, feminist studies and museum practice.

Career opportunities:

You will develop your art practice and write critically about the context of artistic work and outcomes of your work.

Throughout the course, you have the chance to gain skills in organising and curating events and exhibitions, researching, interpreting and analysing artistic work, as well as developing your cultural and visual awareness.

All of these traits are valuable in a wide range of careers.

Fine Art graduates have gone on to develop artist-led studios and galleries, and work in curatorial and educational roles around the world - both on a freelance basis and for major art institutions.

Others have decided to develop their research interests through PhD study at Leeds or at another institution, or have pursued careers in teaching.

Courses include:

• MA Exhibition

• Studio Practice

• Derrida and Deconstruction

• Reading Sexual Difference

• Adventures in the Archive