Overview

Whether working in a singular Fine Art discipline, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, video, sound, printmaking, installation or performance, or across multiple areas of creative practice, you are encouraged to explore ideas through a process of making and experimentation that extends into new understanding or innovative creative directions. You will be introduced, through ongoing visiting lecturers, seminars, research intensives, critiques and site visits, to the ways in which contemporary art inhabits a range of contexts, from traditional gallery exhibitions to public art projects and socially-engaged collaborations. You will participate in current, international cultural debates through research into the relevant topics that will allow you to build a body of knowledge and practice to define what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.

Taught within reach of some of the best material resources, media environments and studios available anywhere in an arts university, your practice-led research and study can take form through traditional processes, as a range of media outcomes or as entirely conceptual, while being enriched by its realisation within a community of active practitioners who will challenge, guide and accelerate your creative development to be purposeful, critically informed and culturally attuned to our time.

We are committed to developing ethical, sustainable design practices as outlined in our Strategic Vision and this ethos is embedded in all MA courses.

Programme Structure

The comprehensive Masters structure, which is shared across our specialist subjects, enables our postgraduate students to focus on creative strategies and processes through three sequential units which support you in investigating, testing and developing your ideas. The core tuition focuses on training, research methodology, critical thinking, design, practice-led research methods and professional and conceptual frameworks. All of our programmes have access to outstanding workshop facilities in the university.

By combining learning units with specialist assignments and personal project proposals, you will be able to achieve depth and specialisation within your subject area, while at the same time develop a critical methodology through techniques that can be applied across the commercial, social and public sectors.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-29 00:00:00

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Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

85

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PTE Academic

50

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Liberal Arts Fine Arts Painting & Drawing View 114 other Masters in Liberal Arts in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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85

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50

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6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

MA applicants are normally expected to have an undergraduate degree at 2:2 or above. However, the strength of your creative practice and other forms of experience will be taken into account at the interview stage and we encourage you to start a conversation with us.
As part of the application, you will be asked to give the usual application details, to provide some digital images of your work, and to submit a short personal statement (300 words approximately). This personal statement is a chance to tell us what you want to do on your chosen MA.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

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Non-residents

17500 GBP / year

≈ 17500 GBP / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

9500 GBP / year

≈ 9500 GBP / year

Additional Details

Part-time : UK: £5,320 International: £9,275

Living costs

Plymouth

United Kingdom

731 - 1387 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

The following international scholarships are available:

https://www.aup.ac.uk/international/finance#scholarships

Creative Scholarships (up to £2,000) - awarded on merit via a panel, applied to students entering the first year of study of either an Undergraduate or Postgraduate course. Applicants will need to meet benchmarks for excellence of portfolio and demonstrate a commitment to study.

Vice-Chancellor’s Arts University Plymouth Excellence Award (£3,500) - available to students entering a full time 1 year MA programme, awarded on a competitive basis by application and panel selection.

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