MA in Fine Art (Ceramics)
Bath, United Kingdom
MA
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 17,760 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* International full time | UK full time: £9,520
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Key Summary
MA Fine Art (Ceramics) at Bath Spa is designed to fully develop your creative potential as a ceramicist within a Fine Art context.
We encourage you to experiment and take risks before going on to establish your strategy for practice. You’ll develop skills and knowledge through an exciting combination of practice, research, and professional development.
You’ll work alongside Fine Art and Design peers specializing in Photography, Curatorial Practice, Visual Communication, Graphics, Illustration, and Textiles, allowing you to contextualize your work about current debates.
Our students have capitalized on many opportunities to collaborate with galleries and museums, artists and curators, businesses, and educational institutions. We want you, too, to gain the experience necessary to professionalize your practice.
This course includes or offers the following modules. Please check the program document for more information on which modules are core, required, or optional.
- Research Methods
- Theory and Professional Context
- Practice 1 (Fine Art)
- Research Practice
- Theory and Professional Practices
- Practice 2 (Fine Art)
- Masters Project
What you'll learn
Overview
Learn to adopt an interdisciplinary and material-led approach, based on experimentation, risk-taking, and personal innovation.
MA Fine Art (Ceramics) at Bath Spa will challenge your assumptions about art production and encourage you to explore ways to progress within and transform the field. It will also encourage you to build collaborative relationships with other artists and develop transferable skills.
You’ll identify your position as an artist and learn to promote and exhibit your work professionally. You’ll take a holistic approach, embedding theory, research, and historical and contemporary practice into your work.
Course structure
MA Fine Art (Ceramics) runs over one year and is divided into three trimesters.
Trimester one
Begin to take chances and challenge your creative processes. You’ll interrogate your existing knowledge and develop skills in an environment that encourages playfulness and artistic risk-taking. You can experiment freely in our wide variety of specialist facilities, open studio spaces, and technical workshops – where expert support is on hand.
Trimester two
Building on the work in the first trimester, you’ll maintain an experimental approach, but start to narrow your focus. We’ll help you evaluate your initial studio developments and refine your working strategy. You’ll be encouraged to pay greater attention to the presentation of your practice and to test how finished works relate to each other in, as well as to the spaces of, exhibition sites.
Trimester three
You’ll work in the studio with increasing independence as you establish a professional practice. You’ll devise and complete your Master’s Project, working on a proposal that contextualizes your work within your specialist discipline and leads to your final Degree Show.
How will I be assessed?
Your progress is evaluated throughout the course and at the end of each trimester through a mixture of exhibitions, verbal/visual presentations, research folders/blogs, and written assignments.
How will I be taught?
You’ll learn through lectures, talks, taught sessions, individual and group tutorials, and studio critiques and seminars. Visiting lecturers and seminars with external professionals and internationally renowned designers and artists will help you determine where your current practice sits within the industry.
Our collaborative structure also means that you’ll learn from each other – for instance, Ceramics students might engage in debates with Sculpture or Textiles students.
Technical Demonstrators, who manage our workshop facilities, provide teaching and support across a wide range of subject specialisms. Your learning is also supported by specialist librarians.
Course length
One year full-time.