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Fine Art
Programmes
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Kent was ranked 4th in the UK for art and design graduate employment prospects in The Guardian University Guide 2012.
Overview
Postgraduate studies in Fine Art at Kent offers you an energetic, challenging and open framework in which to explore your artistic practice. The programme welcomes independent thinkers who seek to develop their practice in a discursive environment that brings together a diverse set of attitudes to making and producing art work in contemporary culture. As a student, you are encouraged to realise your creative and intellectual potential within your discipline informed by specialists within your field.
As an MA Fine Art student, you develop a body of work towards a degree show exhibition. Throughout the year you are encouraged to exhibit work regularly within the University and beyond with our partner institutions, discussing your work with your peers and tutors that include artists, writers and curators who all work at an international level in the arts. Alongside their support, we offer new workshops and studio spaces with excellent technical support to realise your practice-based projects. In this way, the MA Fine Art Programme prepares you for a professional career in the arts and for your continued development following your studies.
PhD students can choose three routes for study. These include Fine Art, Critical Arts Writing and Curation. You are given select supervisory support and are offered workshops, seminars and exhibition opportunities throughout your research period.
Did you know?
Kent was ranked 4th in the UK for art and design graduate employment prospects in The Guardian University Guide 2012.
Postgraduate resources
The University of Kent is investing over £5 million in its Arts at Medway initiative, to provide you with the best possible study and research environment.
A number of historic buildings in the atmospheric Chatham Historic Dockyard are being renovated to provide a new range of professional standard facilities. You are given studio space within the Department as well as access to full workshops that include wood, metal, plaster, digital media, audio-visual media and photography as well as on-site technical support. Off-site working can also be organised within the multiple opportunities for site-specific production available at the Dockyard Campus and beyond.
The University offers access to a broad-based library stock, covering the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture, as well as a large collection of works on photography, contemporary visual communications, aesthetic theory, cultural studies and philosophy. There is a substantial stock of periodicals, and a slide library with well over 100,000 classified slides. The programmes also include regular trips abroad to cities such as Madrid, Berlin, New York and to major arts events such as the Venice Biennale. The Department takes advantage of its proximity to London with regular visits to London galleries, as well as providing opportunities for you to develop research links and projects with spaces in the capital.
Did you know?
Kent was ranked 4th in the UK for art and design graduate employment prospects in The Guardian University Guide 2012.
Key information
Dynamic exhibiting culture
Staff exhibit at major institutions in the UK and beyond. This includes Dr Rachel Garfield's 2012 exhibition The Straggle at Beaconsfield, London; Sarah Turner's Perestroika, 2009, which was screened at the London Film Festival and Cambridge Film Festival and Dr Steve Klee, whose work has been exhibited at Five Years, London. Staff also publish journal articles, catalogue essays and regularly speak at conferences and symposia, their research spanning the areas of performance, lens based media, identity politics and the politics of representation.
Support
We hold regular studio-based seminars, lectures and discussion seminars, bringing together practices of making, organising, reading and writing for group discussion. Visiting specialists, representing the current debates within these disciplines, regularly visit the Department providing lectures and one-to-one tutorials.
During your degree programme, we offer training in research skills, a regular research newsletter, and the opportunity to take part in our research seminar programme. All PhD students have the opportunity for funded conference attendance.
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|Did you know?
Kent was ranked 4th in the UK for art and design graduate employment prospects in The Guardian University Guide 2012.
Contacts
Admissions enquiries
T: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Kathryn Sansom
Recruitment & Admissions Administrator
School of Arts, Old Surgery
University of Kent
Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent ME4 4TZ
T: +441634 202962
E: arts-pgadmin@kent.ac.uk
Did you know?
Kent was ranked 4th in the UK for art and design graduate employment prospects in The Guardian University Guide 2012.