MA Fine Art: Curating*

Content

The MA Fine Art: Curating course gives you the opportunity to develop a range of professional, conceptual, technical and creative skills. You’ll study a curriculum carefully sequenced to deliver a dynamic student journey over three intensive terms.

In the first term, you'll be encouraged to establish a critical disciplinary fluency, effectively positioning your own views and practice within contemporary curatorial discourses and developing an individual process of inquiry. At the end of the first term, you'll explore and connect arts research and discourse across a community of postgraduate peers. This will result in the presentation of bold, change-making creative proposals.

In the second term, you’ll have the opportunity to advance your personal curatorial practice and perspective through professional, creative development.

Refinement of your contemporary and historical understanding will culminate in production of a creative project and a considered proposal for further inquiry. This leads into the third term, where you'll have the opportunity to realise your ideas within a supportive community of interdisciplinary practice, technical expertise, and academic criticality when completing your final project.

Throughout the year, you'll develop your understanding of enterprise within the creative industries and develop knowledge of the contemporary character and conventions of the creative economy. You'll have the opportunity to refine your professional skills, attributes and identity in preparation to succeed in an uncertain and complex cultural landscape.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we'll inform you.

Learning and Teaching

Our family of MA Fine Art courses work together in an interdisciplinary learning environment. This approach nurtures collaboration and knowledge exchange across different fields of study, allowing students to deepen their expertise within their chosen discipline whilst engaging with broader artistic creative and critical perspectives.

Taught by a team with expertise across a breadth of creative practice, you’ll learn to understand and push the boundaries of discipline through technical and theoretical input. You will study through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, and studio practice, and you’ll also benefit from events with industry experts.

Through practical exercises responding to real-world briefs, audiences, situations, and places you learn, and are supported to effectively practice, a range of curatorial skills. Discursive and written exercises provide the space for deep reflection on this work, cementing thoughtful, ethical approaches to curatorial practice for your future career. The classroom is modelled as a brave space for trying things out: a playful approach to learning encourages your own critical thinking and development.

See our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Study time

This is a full-time course, which starts in September and runs for three terms over 12 months. Learning and teaching sessions typically take place over three days per week. Outside of your contact hours, you’ll have the opportunity to access the available resources.

Assessment

You'll be assessed through a range of methods throughout the year including presentations, portfolio, and practical and written work. You’ll spend your last term working towards your final outcomes for the year.

Learn more about our assessments.