About the course

The MA Fine Art at Middlesex University enables you to both develop your Fine Art practice, and orientate your art work in relation to London’s exciting and thriving international contemporary art scene.

Through a series of guided gallery tours, meetings with curators and other art professionals, you are encouraged to make new work, and identify both contexts and conversations that are relevant to your artistic trajectory. This teaching will be complimented and supported with weekly seminars, developing your own art practice through critical dialogue and the use of Middlesex University’s state of the art on campus technical workshop facilities. At the same time, you will be supported by experienced artists in the planning, curation and publicity for public exhibition. The course culminates in an extended in-depth period of artistic development, enabling you to refine your art practice, supporting you in the production of a professional standard body of work and the MA Fine Art exhibition, which will be open to the public.

On our MA in Fine Art, you will explore the creative, cultural, political and social questions of art practice. The course offers the opportunity to further your knowledge and skills by undertaking a systematic and comprehensive major body of work.

Our course is flexibly designed to also offer you the chose of studying Printmaking as a specialism. You will have the opportunity to explore a wide range of new and traditional print-making practices (silkscreen, etching, lithography, letterpress etc.) and enhance your skills though experimentation, research and critical analysis.

The Fine Art course welcomes students who work across a range of disciplines that include painting, sculpture, photography and film, printmaking, installation, sound, performance, ‘event’ making, and other relational and socially engaged practices.

At Middlesex, we take both a highly practical and a critical approach to Fine Art that ensures you spend the majority of your postgraduate study time in researching and making. This combination of in-depth analysis and hands-on experience will enable you to draw on a wide range of expertise and resources while questioning and developing your practice in a contemporary context to stimulate a successful career.

Studying Fine Art in London puts you at the heart of the ever-shifting nature of international contemporary fine art practice with direct access to London’s art world. You’ll have the opportunity to make regular visits to Tate Modern and Tate Britain, further world class museums and exhibitions, the vibrant, contemporary gallery scene, and to attend such international showcases as Frieze.

Course highlights

• A dedicated teaching team of leading academics and practitioners who have recognised national and international experience in practice, teaching and research
• The opportunity to study Fine Art (Printmaking) and develop your own unique approach through practical work
• Benefit from access to our traditional print workshop and innovative software and equipment including 3D printers, large format digital printers, dark rooms, photographic studios, laser cutters an metalwork workshops
• When possible, you will have bookable access to studio space (even if you are studying part-time) and technical resources
• Exhibition opportunities have taken place at Art Lacuna, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, Gasworks, Ply Gallery and the Art Pavilion
• Build industry links and explore how artist-run organisations operate by networking with a range of galleries, high-profiles artists, libraries and collections
• Be part of a vibrant postgraduate research culture, working across many areas of art and design practice
• As a student of this course, you’ll have access to the extensive Adobe Creative Cloud suite and get free access to the resources, learning materials and software.