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PostgraduateCourse summary
This innovative MA painting course focuses on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues. The course provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history. This course: Is focused on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues. Provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history. Is structured to build your skills, creative inquiry, and career prospects within fine art painting. Develops advanced technical abilities and material innovations while immersed in critical painting methodologies. Emphasises cultivating creative thinking, conceptual rigor and employability. Progresses through practice-based research helping find innovative solutions to aesthetic and conceptual challenges. Will refine your artistic aims within contemporary painting. Is guided by independent and collaborative learning, you will progress through workshops, critiques and seminars aimed to foster a versatile, inquisitive and dynamic painting practitioner engaging with the creative economy.
Modules
MODULES: Locating (Core) - The Locating module is the critical foundation of the MA Painting program. Through intensive material exploration, contextual research, and analytical critiques, students will scrutinise the fundamental technical, conceptual, and theoretical dimensions of painting practice. The module focuses on positioning each student's work within the broader contexts of art history, culture, politics, and philosophy. Students will cultivate a critical language to articulate the complex relationship between painting, identity, and society. Questioning (Core) - The Questioning module focuses on strengthening students' painting practice by situating it within philosophical debates and cultural discussions surrounding the evolving nature of the medium. Students will take conceptual risks and push conventional techniques through material experimentation that challenges traditional definitions of painting. The Questioning module equips students to effectively engage with contemporary painting discourse through both visual and written formats. Articulating (Core)- The Articulating module focuses on developing a cohesive body of painting work to exhibit publicly, situating students' practices within the contemporary art world. Together with this, students will refine skills in writing, verbal articulation, exhibition curation, and professional documentation to effectively communicate the significance of their artistic vision. The Articulating module ensures students can proficiently navigate and articulate their work in professional arts settings.
Assessment method
Teaching and assessment on the MA Painting programme takes diverse forms aligned with a practice-based curriculum. Over the course of the programme, you will engage in a diverse range of teaching and learning approaches including tutor guidance and peer collaboration. You will produce practice based studio work and keep reflective journals documenting your creative progress, artistic analyses and developing understanding of painting histories and theories. Your participation in routine critiques and self-reflective writing foster critical and philosophical thinking about your growth. Exhibitions of select works allow you to publicly present resolved pieces for review. In addition, you will submit summative written elements contextualizing your practice within critical frameworks.
Entry requirements
All applicants to the MA Painting programme are required to submit a portfolio as part of the application process. Portfolios are typically comprised of 10-15 images of your strongest, most relevant work, but can also include additional media elements such as video, writing samples, documentation of exhibitions, etc. The portfolio submission allows applicants to demonstrate their talents, creative thinking, technical skills, and artistic motivations visually. Reviewing applicants' portfolios gives our teaching team deeper insight into prospective students' potential to positively contribute to and successfully undertake this specialised postgraduate programme.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £5940 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £5940 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £5940 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £5940 | Year 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | £5940 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Wrexham University
Plas Coch
Mold Road
Wrexham
LL11 2AW