Professional and Professional Training in Balance in Painting and Fine Arts

Class details

Study options

Full-time: 1 yr, Part-time: two years

Great britain fee

£6,550 for the total class or £730 per 20 credits* (2022/23)

International fee

£xiv,700 for the full course (2022/23)

Location

Markeaton Street, Derby Campus

Course description

The highlights

• Nosotros're looking for fine artists and photographers who are strongly motivated and independently minded. We volition assistance yous to shape your individual artistic practise past encouraging reflection and re-evaluation, inquiry and experimentation
  
• Our academic team have a broad range of backgrounds with expertise in art, photography, flick, public art, operation, curatorship, critical theory, fine art history, philosophy and criticism, residencies and commissions. We're certain you'll thrive in this various creative customs
• Yous will take access to outstanding facilities, including darkrooms, equipment and software that are the envy of most professional photographers, and recently refurbished Fine Art Studios in our historic Britannia Manufactory site.

Piece of work creatively across disciplines

This MA Arts is an exciting, challenging and rigorous programme of study, which offers you a pick of two pathways — Photography or Fine Art — and then yous can focus on one particular discipline and graduate with a named accolade in that.

At the same fourth dimension, as the boundaries between visual arts disciplines continue to blur, this Masters will encourage yous to take office in a diverse range of activities and collaborate with other art and design students — especially those on the alternative pathway to you — so you develop equally a multifaceted, original creative person and practitioner.

This programme volition bring together a customs of photographers and artists in a multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary surroundings, to explore the interface betwixt media (both traditional and digital) in a stimulating and creatively enabling style. This will provide a unique and exciting opportunity for those who wish to specialise in the interpretation of time and space working creatively, practically and intellectually beyond disciplines. Discussions and debates around the differences and commonalities of the subject areas will both critically inform and support private creative practice, including the relevance of the written word through narrative class and theoretical studies.

You volition undertake taught studio-based research, while gaining a strong theoretical awareness of contemporary exercise. There will be lots of lively debates involving students and staff from a range of disciplines, giving you lot the opportunity to hear a rich range of voices and contribute your own.

You will likewise go part of our thriving research culture and be able to attend the staff research seminar series, where colleagues discuss their latest projects.

At the end of the programme, you volition take part in the Academy's Caste Prove: a large-scale exhibition of piece of work from final year undergraduate and postgraduate arts students. You can encounter the highlights from the 2021 MA Degree Show here as well as a video from the 2018 show beneath.

View Masters Show 2018 video transcript

MA Arts (Photography) pathway

The University of Derby has a long history of excellence in photography, with high student satisfaction ratings and top 20 league tabular array positions. On this MA Arts (Photography), we teach photography as a fine fine art practice, offering a contemporary and exciting plan. By developing your ain projects, you will take the freedom to focus on what interests and excites you.

Y'all will have access to well-resourced facilities that volition allow you to experiment with different image-making methods, working across analogue, digital, however or moving image and multimedia installation.

Our University hosts FORMAT International Photography Festival in collaboration with Derby QUAD, which attracts artists from all over the world. This provides you with a unique opportunity to showcase your work and build contacts within the industry.

You lot will be encouraged to maintain a professional person profile during the course. Previous arts students accept exhibited at venues such as The Crypt Derby Cathedral, Pickford House Museum, The Orangery Derby, QUAD, Wirksworth Visual Arts Festival, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Una Notte al Museo in Milan, Italy, Campbell Works Gallery London, and Fermynwoods Gimmicky Arts.

We volition inspire you to shape your individual creative practice with relevant theoretical knowledge and experimental approaches, informing a personal voice and engagement within the creative industries.

Sofia Rodrigues

MA Arts (Fine Art) pathway

This pathway is open to fine art undergraduates equally well equally people who have studied other fine art and design disciplines, and who now want to develop their skillset in a art context.

On this pathway, we'll encourage you to critically reflect on your personal practice and become more enlightened of the relationship between your work and your audition. You will consider aspects of curatorial practice and how art works are received by general and specialist audiences.

You will have access to well-staffed and well-resourced fine art studios and a range of 2D/3D making workshops (printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, wood / metal) plus the University's other arts facilities, such as an equipment loan store, digital print workshops and video editing software.

Student work from left to right: Deb Rogers, Henrietta Ellis, Ana Torrejon (top right) and Zoe Collishaw (bottom right)

What you will study

Y'all will study modules such equally:

Postgraduate Certificate

These modules fully integrate both theory and practice and are written and placed to encourage ideas and learning to be counterbalanced and exchanged between the two.

Practice, Theory, Curation (Fine Art or Photography) (xx credits)

This module introduces you to curatorial debates and ideas within the arena of Fine art and Photography do, reflecting on and responding to visual and written texts that appoint critically with the field of study.

Reflective Processes and Visual Inquiry (Art or Photography) (40 credits)

This module will explore examples of reflective and self-disquisitional practice from a personal historical perspective. Students will nowadays an account of work to date, relating it to electric current theoretical issues, and utilize this as a "span" to re-evaluate and reassess in lodge to begin the development of a new corpus of visual work.

Postgraduate Diploma

Critical Written report (Fine Art or Photography) (20 credits)

This module is an opportunity for you to undertake a critical study of your own, current creative or photographic practice within the contemporary international context of fine art and/or photography. Information technology volition enable y'all to develop your cognition and understanding of the relationship between practice and theory to a more than advanced level, through scholarly research and production of an essay.

Negotiated Report (Fine Art or Photography) (twoscore credits)

Inside this module you lot volition articulate the context in which your work might exist sighted. Clarifying where and how your work might exist staged and viewed, with reference to audience appointment and interaction, it is intended to bring the critical aspect of forming judgements nearly your work. The module will support your development of central research skills and working practices preparatory to the 'Independent Scholarship and Critical Reflection' module.

MA

Choose ane module on the third and final stage of the programme:

• Independent Scholarship and Disquisitional Reflection in Photography or
• Independent Scholarship and Critical Reflection in Fine Art or
• Artistic Research and Critical Practice

Independent Scholarship and Critical Reflection (Art or Photography) (60 credits)

Aslope the major practice element of this module (the Degree show exhibition) you will be asked to 'critically reflect' and 'analyse' your practice; this is designed to develop and raise your power to critically discuss and evaluate work in social club to contextualise, develop and propose plans for your future professional practice. In this module, practical and enquiry skills acquired in preceding modules volition be employed and developed to produce a coherent and sustained body of exhibition quality work to a professional standard.

Creative Research: Theory and Practice (Fine Art or Photography) (60 credits)

You will be able to conduct a major, extended, in-depth disquisitional review of the theoretical and historical dimensions of your creative or photographic research alongside the evolution of your practice. Forming the culmination of your programme of report, it will exist appropriate to those who have discovered that their artistic interests and strengths prevarication primarily in the theoretical and historical aspects of artistic research and who may be because applying to undertake do-based doctoral research.

Please note that our modules are subject to modify - we review the content of our courses regularly, making changes where necessary to improve your feel and graduate prospects.

How you lot volition learn

This MA Arts is a professionally taught program delivered through seminars, tutorials, workshop, peer reviews and guest lectures. Nosotros also accept part in UK and international study trips to galleries, arts centres and other cultural institutions and have good links with regional galleries such every bit QUAD and Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

Student work from left to right: Thomas Wynne, Holly McGhee, Finn Dahlhaus (meridian centre) and Paige Holmes

Visiting practitioners and speakers

In that location is a rich programme of specialist visiting practitioners and speakers. In the by, we've hosted:

Visiting practitioners

• Jonny Briggs
• Dave Smith
• Lisa Watt
• Dario Srbic
• Nicola Williams
• Henrietta Simson
• Alberto Condotta
• Duncan Wooldridge
• Jennifer Wright
• Ian Whitfield
• Mike Shaw
• Dr Paul Kilsby
• Mark Wright
• Will Jennings
• Eleanor MacNair
• Marlene Smith
• Louise Thou Wilson
• Jaqueline Butler
• Alexander Pollard
• Dan Hays
• Ines Coehlo
• Bettina Von Zwehl
• Sarah Jones
• Vanely Shush
• Peter Kennard
• Dr Bharti Parmar
• Cristina Nuñez.

Visiting speakers

• Philosopher Dr Malcolm Barnard
• Fine art council and members of the creative manufacture - Elizabeth Hawley, Peta Spud, Wendy Mason and Sarah Reed
• Curators Peter Bonnell and David Gilbert.

How are you assessed?

We'll assess you at the end of each module and provide written and verbal feedback on your progress. We use a range of cess approaches, including the presentation of practical piece of work, essays, reports including reflective journals, proposals and presentations. In betwixt assessments, nosotros volition also give you regular feedback on your work.

Who y'all'll come across

The programme leaders for this course are equally follows:

• Rodger Chocolate-brown, whose professional interests include gimmicky sculpture and installation-based piece of work, concerning aspects of site, location and history. Rodger is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds qualifications in MA Fine Art and MA History of Art and Design.
• Vered Lahav, is a photographer and installation artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. Vered is the recipient of awards from the Shapira Foundation, the Avi Fellowship and the ACAVA award. In addition, she has received Arts Council Grants for Individuals in 2004, 2008 and 2013.

Who volition teach you lot

Entry requirements

We aim to attract well-motivated students who wish to further their report in a stimulating and professionally orientated learning surroundings.

All applicants will be expected to submit a portfolio of artwork and Creative Positioning Statement to the Plan Leader in advance of the interview. The portfolio should be a thematic trunk of piece of work that explores a range of approaches underpinned by a conceptual understanding of context - in short, a coherent range of work exploring a theme/effect/prepare of ideas etc. A Creative Positioning Statement in the form of a clarification of your do and the themes, bug or concerns you lot would like to explore or develop through this MA programme will exist required. The length of the certificate will be approximately 500 words. Send us your portfolio via email through to Rodger Brownish r.one thousand.chocolate-brown@derby.ac.britain. Nosotros understand that some of your work will not be in a digital format, for any physical pieces of piece of work please take a photograph of information technology and submit the photograph.

For international students you will need to have qualifications and feel that are at the same level equally for a United kingdom student applying for the same course. If English is not your first language, you'll also need an IELTS score of vi.0 or equivalent.

UK and European union Entry Requirements

You will unremarkably be expected to have an appropriate fine fine art, or other first degree appropriate to apply for the MA (Minimum 2:2 or above), or a professional qualification of equal standing, or pregnant practical or professional person experience gained following your initial qualification that would support your application. You should bring your portfolio to the interview normally arranged at the Academy. Yous will also be asked to provide a program of how you lot intend to utilize the time on the MA to further your practice.

If English language is not your first linguistic communication, yous'll too need an IELTS score of half-dozen.0 (with v.5 in each skills area), or equivalent.

Please contact the plan squad with any queries.

Fees and funding

2022/23 Fees (Baronial 2022 - July 2023)

Type	Full-time	Part-fourth dimension
UK	£half dozen,550 for the total course or £730 per 20 credits*	£730 per twenty credits
International	£14,700 for the full course	N/A

Please note fees normally increase in line with inflation and the University's strategic approach to fees, which is reviewed on an annual basis. The full fee you pay may therefore increase after one year of study.

* UK full-time fees paid inside one bookish twelvemonth are rounded downwardly to the nearest £l if applicable

Additional costs and optional extras

About postgraduate awards

Please note at postgraduate level, yous'll need to proceeds the following number of credits in total to obtain the respective awards. If you have any questions please contact us.

Accolade	Credits
Postgraduate Certificate	60 Credits
Postgraduate Diploma	120 Credits
MA or MSc	180 Credits

This means you will gain 180 credits in full to complete the full MA or MSc. If yous are studying part fourth dimension you will commonly complete your studies over two or three years, depending on the course structure.

Funding your studies

Observe out more about fees, postgraduate loans and support you may exist entitled to.

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Alumni discount for Derby graduates

Nosotros offer a discount on postgraduate class fees for all Derby alumni.

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How to apply

Please look at our application deadlines before you apply

Careers

We take strong links with employers and cultural institutions, which we encourage yous to maximise throughout this programme. At that place are also many opportunities to showcase your work and build a following.

As a graduate from this programme, y'all will have developed a mature body of work in photography or fine art, as well equally gaining the language and skills you need to locate and explain your practice in the professional person fine art globe. You will be well-placed to forge a career as an independent artist/lensman, or look for employment in sectors such as the creative industries, educational activity, museums, libraries and athenaeum, or publishing and broadcasting.

Derby University students take made a major contribution to our city's vibrant arts culture. Many have been inspired by the surface area's rural and industrial heritage, and have established studios, start-upwards businesses or exhibited work locally. Students Sarah Blandford and Sofia Rodrigues were awarded the Banks Mill Student Residency 2021-22.

If you need any more information from us, eg on courses, accommodation, applying, car parking, fees or funding, please contact us and we will do everything nosotros can to assist you.

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Additional data most your studies

Teaching hours

Like nearly universities, we operate extended education hours at the University of Derby, and so contact time with your lecturers and tutors could exist anytime between 9am and 9pm. Your timetable will unremarkably be available on the website 24 hours after enrolment on to your form.

Additional costs and optional extras

We're committed to providing you with an outstanding learning experience. Our expert teaching, first-class facilities and great employability prepare you for your future career. Every bit part of our commitment to you we aim to keep whatever additional study costs to a minimum. However, there are occasions where students may incur some additional costs.

Please likewise note that due to the current Covid-xix situation, if your course offers fieldtrips, the location of these may change or be cancelled. If this happens, you will be communicated to in accelerate and we will do our very best to seek out other practical opportunities to ensure your experience is not affected.

The information below is correct for entry in the academic year September 2021 - Baronial 2022 but. Entry for future bookish years may be subject to modify.

Included in your fees

• Additional access to wider University Arts' facilities including equipment loan store and other facilities, such as digital print workshops or video editing
• Specialist equipment and admission to a range of second/3D making workshops (printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, wood / metal)
• Participation in the Academy Caste Show - including the physical edifice of the exhibition space
• Here at Derby, we provide splendid learning resources, libraries and specialist laboratories and studios
• The program benefits from a visiting speaker each semester

Mandatory costs not included in your fees

• We recommend students using photography or film/video to have their ain camera, nevertheless our equipment loan store holds most needed equipment to complete student coursework
• Approx. £100 per year for printing research material for journal piece of work
• Additional materials (press, stationery, portfolio sleeves, folders, USBs/hard drives etc. £100 - £300)
• There will be occasions when y'all will be expected to attend exhibitions, screenings, performances and festivals. You will need to budget for these over each bookish year
• National trips - jitney (Approx. £viii - £12 , London £30+) International trip (Approx. £500)
• Private project work - towards the cease of each of the 3 stages - this tin can range from £100 - £1000 depending on the activeness

Optional costs not included in your fees

• Additional grade related publications (approx. costs £100)
• Specialist software/hardware (costs up to £1500)
• Final year project costs (costs determined by student £200 - £600)
• Travel for work placement opportunities (costs will vary dependant on location
• We provide full details of all class fees, just actress costs may include field trips (approx. cost £200 - £400)

Please notation: Our courses are refreshed and updated on a regular basis. If you are thinking about transferring onto this course (into the 2d twelvemonth for case), you should contact the plan leader for the relevant course information as modules may vary from those shown on this page.

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