MA Fine Art Painting

Course summary:

MA Fine Art Painting at Camberwell College of Arts explores the diversity of the discipline. The course looks at painting in relation to contemporary issues, culture and tradition. The course supports the development of your practical and research skills. It prepares you for continued progression into the professional and academic worlds.

Anyone Interested.

Course details:

What you can expect:

• To identify and debate key issues in contemporary painting
• A learning and teaching environment that supports the development of your practical, professional and research skills
• To extend your practical knowledge of paint as a material and process
• To examine the ways in which methods and materials shape the agenda in contemporary painting whilst creating a relationship to tradition
• To examine the notion of painting as research
• Cross-pathway lectures, seminars and crits to help you locate your practice within the broader field of fine art and other social, cultural and ethical contexts. These will include postcolonial, feminist and disadvantaged discourses
• To look at funding, promotion, self-employment and other aspects of professional practice
• To engage with the wider research culture at University of the Arts London
• To have access to Camberwell's shared workshops.

Fees & Funding:

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