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Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

Develop your artistic practice and understanding of contemporary art, relating to wider social and cultural contexts, with leading artists on LJMU's Fine Art MA.

  • Benefit from state-of-the-art workspaces and facilities within the modern, purpose-built and RIBA award-winning John Lennon Art and Design Building
  • Enjoy direct links with Liverpool's most significant arts organisations, such as TATE Liverpool, Biennial, Bluecoat and FACT
  • Work in allocated studio space (for full-time students)
  • Network and collaborate in professional fields to boost your career prospects
  • The 2022 Liverpool School of Art and Design MA Online Degree Show
  • View and engage with work produced by masters students from the Liverpool School of Art and Design
  • Take advantage of the generous Michael Pugh Thomas and Julia Carter Preston Legacy 1000 scholarships offered to postgraduate applicants
Join a small group of students from a diverse range of backgrounds to develop your practice within a global context. You will benefit from a high level of discussion and reflection, test your artistic thinking, create exhibitions, events and collaborations. We bring to the discussion of your work our expertise as artists with an established international exhibition practice. From our base in the shared cross-MA studio, we work in a number of architecturally diverse sites across the city for short projects and public-facing exhibitions. We see exhibition making as a medium to push your practice; to take risks, experiment and hone your professional skills. We invite curators and leading artists from the UK and internationally, to join us in crits and assessments. In many of these projects you take the lead, with our support from scouting and negotiating sites to marketing and promotion. In doing so you are also building a professional network which will be invaluable to you after you graduate. Our institutional partners Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial and FACT support our Masters programme, through participating in crits and collaborating on projects, events and international guest lectures. We collaborate every second year with the Liverpool Biennial in placing your Masters show within the framework of the Biennial programme. We also work closely with a number of dynamic local initiatives including MAKE Liverpool, The Royal Standard and CBS, to develop meaningful relationships with the wider cultural context of Liverpool. The MA offers opportunities for interdisciplinary dialogues with students on our other Masters courses through the cross-school modules: Research and Practice 1 and 2 and Collaborative Practice. And we encourage exchange of perspectives, expertise or equipment with all faculties from Astrophysics to Zoology. You will also have access to the Exhibition Research Lab, a creative partnership led by the Liverpool School of Art and Design and, as previously mentioned, Liverpool Biennial, which acts as an interface for collaboration with national and international artists, designers and public audiences.

Assessment method

To cater for the wide-ranging content of our courses and the varied learning preferences of our students, we offer a range of assessment methods on each programme. Our expert academics have designed course delivery and assessment around contemporary research, focusing on the development of Fine Art practice and appreciation. The high level of seminar and tutorial contact on this programme allows for a considerable amount of formative assessment and feedback before the summative assessment for each module. You will be assessed via: presentations, proposals, practical projects and the production of supporting documentation.

Entry requirements

Undergraduate degree: -a good honours degree (normally 2:1 or above) in a visual arts related subject or professional qualifications and industry experience. However, please note that applicants who hold a degree from another discipline, or have experiential learning in lieu of a degree, will also be considered for entry on an individual basis Additional requirements: -Interview required: to attend a Skype/Zoom interview during which you will provide evidence of your learning capability, study opportunity and commitment to postgraduate study. Applicants should put together 5 slides of work to look at during their Skype/Zoom interviews. These should be images which relate to your most current interests - this may include some old work only if it makes sense in relation to the kind of direction/thinking you are interested in developing on the MA -We recommend applications are submitted by July to allow sufficient time for these to be considered and for interviews to be arranged before the programme commences. Applications will however be considered up until the end of August. International requirements: -IELTS: IELTS English language requirement: 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each component) Extra Requirements: -a satisfactory portfolio of work - please note we are unable to consider your application until this is received. When applying please attach photographs of examples of your work in the form of JPEGS. Please add up to 10 jpegs, video or sound clips or a link to an online portfolio to enable us to consider your application. If you do not provide a portfolio at the point of application you will be contacted to submit this to our upload attachment facility -a reference -RPL: RPL is accepted on this programme

English language requirements

- IELTS English language requirement: 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each component)

Please visit the part-time course page below for more information about this programme.

https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/courses/postgraduates/36843-fine-art-ma

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £49.85 Credit
Northern Ireland £49.85 Credit
Scotland £49.85 Credit
Wales £49.85 Credit

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

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Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University - UCAS