Fine Art MFA

Extend your position in the art world with this MFA degree. Newcastle University's distinguished artists and historians will nurture your practical, professional and intellectual skills.Our Master of Fine Arts is a two-year full time course that encourages a critical and experimental approach to studio-practice.It's designed for fine art graduates and those with other backgrounds who wish to establish, progress or extend their position as practitioners in the contemporary art world.Professional practicitioners from different areas will support your practice in the following specialisms:paintingsculpturedigital mediadrawingperformancephotographyprintmakinginstallationfilm and video artart writingOn the Fine Art MFA we'll support and encourage you to:challenge your thinking and making through self-directed independent studio practicedevelop your creative curiosity and intellectual rigour, gaining fresh perspectives through practice and debateexplore a range of approaches, preparing you for independent professional practice and academic, practice-led researchadvance your theoretical and written skills, working as an independent visual art practitioner in regional, national and global contextsinterrogate your own work and that of other artists, gaining an advanced understanding of the relationship between practice and theoryIf you've already completed an MA Fine Art either at Newcastle or elsewhere, you may be eligible to join our MFA Fine Art direct at Stage 2.