Course summary

Develop your experience and understanding of the increasingly varied ways in which curators work as creative collaborators, catalysts, and enablers. Join our stimulating community, with opportunities to collaborate with a wide range of cultural and business partners and freedom to shape your own unique trajectory. Overview This practice-based Masters programme is for current curators as well as graduates new to curating, artists, and other creative practitioners, interested in exploring the curation of contemporary art through exhibitions, events and other creative platforms. Working alongside the MA Fine Art programme, the course is multi- disciplinary in nature and encourages you to explore the relationship between audiences, curators and artists. You will critically engage with debate around the increasingly hybridised ways in which curators work. The skilled lecturers will encourage you to respond to the context of recent developments within the field of curating and discourse surrounding the display, distribution and interpretation of art works and cultural objects. You will develop new practical and theoretical skills in curating exhibitions, the funding and commissioning of arts projects, and will be supported to develop your own curatorial project that is realised at the end of the year within a public exhibition or event. Your studies will be supported by a combination of tutorials, group critiques, seminars, as well as visiting lectures with professional curators, workshops, ‘behind the scenes’ tours and studio visits. Department research specialisms include the role of the artist-curator, artist-run spaces, institutional critique, critical theory, psycho-geography, and site-specific installation and interventions.