Fine Art (Taught)

Enhance your portfolio and prepare for professional art practice. Our MA Fine Art develops your expertise across a wide range of media and fields of enquiry.

Develop the skills to become an independent, innovative creative thinker and practitioner. You’ll enhance your portfolio and prepare for practice in the expanded field of contemporary art and the creative industries.

Our MA Fine Art course provides opportunities for you to build advanced technical and theoretical problem-solving strategies as well as advanced interpretative abilities.

As part of this course, you’ll:

• Develop your motivations, ambitions and abilities as an artist

• Explore a number of practices including painting, sculpture, print, installation, video, sound, performance and curating

• Work on collective projects and events that will foster your team-working skills, adaptability and resourcefulness

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Boost your creative practice
You’ll increase your abilities and understanding through a series of practice modules that will encourage creative enquiry and activity. Your study will be supported by research methodologies, which will allow you to question and better understand your own creative practice. They’ll also allow you to develop new solutions to disseminate and promote your work.

Learning support
You’ll be supported as you flourish into an independent, creative practitioner and thinker. Working collectively, you’ll develop skills of negotiation, adaptability and resourcefulness preparing you to respond to contemporary challenges in the field of art practice.

Specialist study spaces
You’ll be taught through a combination of seminars, tutorials, studio activities, projects and events. Our studios, workshops and other practical facilities – such as our White Column gallery, theatre and performance spaces, screening facilities and recording studios – will offer a stimulating learning environment for your individual ambitions.

Why study the MA Fine Art course at Leeds Beckett University?

• Benefit from the school's close links to industry and creative businesses

• Your tutors have extensive experience of working as active practitioners, enabling you to gain from their knowledge and professional networks

• Study within Leeds School of Arts - one of the largest university arts communities in the north

• Access to a vast range of ideas, skills and facilities helping you take your practice in whichever direction you want

• Leeds has a thriving creative sector; home to hundreds of innovative start-ups, agencies, design businesses and countless opportunities for fine art graduates