2010 Postgraduate Prospectus - University College Falmouth

Rob Mclachlan
MA F�e Art:
Contemporary
Pra�ice
Campus: Woodlane Annexe
Mode of study: Full-time & part-time
www.falmouth.ac.uk/fineartma
The MA in Fine Art: Contemporary
Practice enables you to engage in a
substantial period of study which will
provide you with the opportunity to
review, change, develop and strengthen
your position as an artist.
The course is designed to encourage artistic
responsibility, self-direction, and competence
through the development of individual expertise
and the professional excellence necessary to
operate as a successful artist.
Fine art practices are a rich and potent source
for imagining and developing unique ways of
conceiving, thinking, and acting in the world
today. As such, we emphasise the importance of
practice where work often encompasses a range
of media such as drawing, textiles, fibre arts,
painting, printmaking, sculpture, performance,
installation, video, sound, photography and
digital media – to express and explore your ideas.
University College Falmouth / 2010 Postgraduate Prospectus
Your artwork and its associated ideas and
concepts will be subjected to artistic and critical
scrutiny. This provides a means of gaining a
critically informed understanding of your own
individual practice and its position within the
field of contemporary art.
We recognise that current art practice demands
formal and contextual knowledge and skills
across a wide range of practices, disciplines
and critical enquiries including; questions of
the conceptual, the spatial, of material, body,
text and site. Inspiration for recent projects
have been drawn from diverse areas including
archives, narratives, philosophies, personal
histories, sciences, literatures, geographies,
religions, space, gender, childhood memory,
time, technologies, body, weather cycles,
gardening, perception and ritual.
The School of Art & Performance has a vibrant
research culture including PhD students, post
doctoral research and specialist research activity
in Art, Nature & Environment and Network
Art. All staff teaching on the course are active
researchers, artists and writers who exhibit,
perform or publish nationally
and internationally.
How is the course �ru�ured?
For full-time students this is a one-year course
delivered over 45 weeks. Alternatively, you
can study the course part-time over two years,
totalling 90 weeks. The academic year begins in
October and ends in September.
The course combines staff -led and group-led
workshops and seminars, independent research,
individual tutorials, ongoing practice-based
projects, written assignments, a dissertation
and the realisation of a final body of work.