Research into Masters Loan
• I admittedly want sure if this excited but thankfully it does: https://www.gov.uk/masters-loan
• I've checked eligibility and seem to be eligible.
• The only thing that stands out is "if you're behind on student finance payments..."
• Do I need to have my BA (Hons) loan fully paid off before progressing onto a Masters? Surely not, as I know others who have progressed onto doing an MA? I will need to enquire about this somewhere.
MA Fine Art Courses that interest me:
• I know the campus location, staff, and city which are all beneficial for my disability and my mental health. Progression would be comfortable
• I would just need to secure accommodation but I wouldn't want to live in student accommodation again after this year. I'm getting too old for it and the students I had this year were not mature whereas every other year at this place has been pleasant and peaceful. I would like to look into somewhere to rent privately.
• Unipol could help perhaps
• A BA Hons degree is required (2:2) with one reference from an academic or creative practitioner and a written supporting statement.
• I've also been in touch with Guide dogs and my nail technician whose sister works at a place where postgraduates rent and will pass along my details.
• The next year I will spend saving up, selling art, moving out independently. and applying to MA.
• I have spoken to David Steans and taken notes. It sounds like a very immersive and expansive course, focusing primarily on strengthening my practice through peer dialogue.
"Develop the skills to become an independent, innovative creative thinker and practitioner and enhance your portfolio and prepare for practice in the expanded field of the contemporary arts. Our MA Fine Art will provide a range of opportunities you to build advanced technical and theoretical problem-solving strategies as well as advanced interpretative abilities.
This course responds to the breadth of professional and research-led opportunities within fine art and will develop your motivations, ambitions and abilities as an artist working within a wide range of media. You will have the opportunity to explore a number of artistic practices including painting, sculpture, print, installation, video, sound, virtual / augmented reality, performance and curating. While a series of collective projects and events will foster your team-working skills, adaptability and resourcefulness.
You will increase your level of engagement through a series of practice modules that will encourage creative enquiry and activity. Your study will be supported by research methodologies, which will allow you to question and better understand your own creative practice and ultimately develop new solutions to disseminate and promote your work.
You will be supported as you flourish into an independent, creative practitioner and thinker. Working collectively, you will develop skills of negotiation, adaptability and resourcefulness preparing you to respond to contemporary challenges in the field of art practice."
• Full time 1 year course or part time 2 years course
• "Local" to me
• I know the route to the campus
• My Guide Dog and I know the city of Leeds
• Adjustment would be easy
• I would need to secure accommodation and the Masters Loan
Email: finpg@leeds.ac.uk
Telephone: 0113 343 5274
"This intensive MA Fine Art course allows artists to develop a body of work within the contexts of the studio, production, dissemination and audience. We encourage applications from artists working, or wishing to work in, studio-based, socially engaged practice, or collaborative practice, as artist curators, as art writers or within art education. This Masters degree aims to provide the basis for future professional art practice, curatorial engagement or academic research at a higher level.
You will develop your art practice in purpose built studios, working towards a final exhibition and dissertation, supported by a series of seminars, tutorials, group critiques and a visiting speaker programme. The course is taught by practising artists, writers and theorists and supported by the region’s internationally recognised resources including the Henry Moore Institute, The Hepworth Wakefield, Leeds Art Gallery, the National Science and Media Museum, The Tetley and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
As well as studio and exhibition work, you will take an optional module to explore critical and theoretical issues such as aesthetics, deconstruction, feminist studies and museum practice."
• Need to have a 2:1 BA or above
• Full time 1 year course or part time 2 years course
• "Local" to me
• I know the route to the campus
• My Guide Dog and I know the city of Leeds
• Adjustment would be easy
• I would need to secure accommodation and the Masters Loan
"MA/MFA Fine Art provides a stimulating environment in which you will be guided to develop your creative aspirations, reach a critical maturity, and gain the self-confidence and skills that will enable you to work as a successful artist.
The course is studio practice driven and relies on experimentation and critical reflection supported by individualised mentoring, lectures, seminars and group critiques. It emphasises the articulation of ideas, development of working methods and the realisation of independent work. Seminars are structured to investigate a broad range of themes relevant to the practicing artist and provide a rich diet of inspiration."
• Full time 1 year course or part time 2 years course
• I don't know the area or the campus but Manchester isn't too far away from Salford where I'm from/
• Would be a new chapter and quite nerve-racking but an opportunity for something new
"The programme will prepare you for successful emergence in an ever changing, complex and pluralistic creative world.The programme will provide you with the opportunity to engage in taught studio-based research, under-pinned by a strong theoretical awareness of contemporary practice.
It will encourage critical reflection on personal practice and awareness of the relationship that your work may have to an audience. The programme will help you connect with a wide diversity of cultural industries on a national and international level. It will enable you to consider aspects of curatorial practice and the public reception art works involving general and specialist audiences.
We are looking for applicants who are strongly motivated, reflective and independently minded. Contemporary Fine Art practice embraces a wide and diverse spectrum of activity and you will have access to well-staffed and resourced workshops and studios. We place great value on interdisciplinary debate that utilising the collective knowledge and experience of both students and staff. We are also interested in non-standard applications from other art and design disciplines who have a skill set they wish to develop in a Fine Art context. We can offer bridging studies, if necessary, in the Autumn semester for those seeking a January start."
• Full time 1 year course or part time 2 years course
• 2:2 BA Hons or above
• I don't know the area or the campus
• Would be a new chapter and quite nerve-racking but an opportunity for something new
Reflection:
Progressing onto the Fine Art MA at Leeds Arts University seems like the next logical step for me. I have arrived at a much different place in my practice than when I began the BA (Hons) Illustration course, that needs further developing to continue to be engaging. As discussed with David, The lack of studio space concerns me and will be something I need to investigate further, especially if I am to be making my own canvases of varying dimensions. Duke Studios and Patrick Studios offer space to graduates but there is limited availability and I imagine many people are gunning for places. Looking into the Masters Loan a bit more, I seem to be eligible though I need to clear up whether I need to pay off my current BA loan in order to progress. The other MA courses are just as suitable, though the University of Leeds requires at 2:1 BA Hons degree requirement, and there are concerns around locating myself and learning routes with different campuses. I feel comfortable at LAU but what excites me is that there is still learning in my practice and workshops I can get to know.
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