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MA ART & DESIGN / MA DESIGN FOR ADVERTISING MA FINE ART / RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN ART & DESIGN
Our courses are designed both to develop you as a practitioner and to prepare you for success in the commercial world. Your studies with us will include lectures and workshops from a wide range of practitioners, writers, curators and gallery owners to help you develop both a broad intellectual framework to support your practice and, equally as important, a network of contacts outside the School.
Passion is the driving force of any successful creative career, and a prerequisite to a successful application to join our MA programmes. Your enthusiasm and passion is supported by the facilities we have to offer - workshops, computer labs and dedicated MA study areas that allow you to follow your creative potential unimpeded.
With our Masters programmes you can:
Why Wolverhampton?
Campus facilities
Cultural life
• be flexible - with lots of choice in three clear pathways: (MA Fine Art, MA Art & Design and MA Design for Advertising)
• Wolverhampton is a buzzing, student-friendly cosmopolitan city with something for everyone.
• Access to a Learning Centre featuring the very latest technology to support your studies.
Wolverhampton has so much to offer, whatever your interests:
• The city is home to the famous Civic Hall, a major venue for live music in the West Midlands, from Slade to Goldfrap; Wolverhampton Art Gallery with a new POP Art extension; and many bar/cafes for after lecture socializing.
• The Millennium City Building, which contains a hi-tech 300-seat lecture theatre, food court and social learning space.
• Theatre fans will love the Grand Theatre - musicals, opera, ballet, pantomime and national touring productions appear year after year
• Sports facilities including a fitness suite, squash courts and sports hall for football, badminton, basketball and fitness classes.
• The University’s own Arena Theatre is one of the West Midlands’ longest established and most successful smallscale touring venues.
• extend your vocabulary - focus your study to suit your interests, but also extend your artistic /intellectual vocabulary into new areas relevant to your practice • learn alongside and benefit from experienced practitioners who exhibit regularly, nationally and internationally • gain mentoring in your own research/practice by some of the most research-active tutors in the University.
CONTACT: School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton, City Campus, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT
MA programmes at the School of Art & Design all share a common thread: the expertise and enthusiasm of teaching staff who are all active in contemporary design and artistic practice.
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MA ART & DESIGN
Campus/location: Start date: Full-time: Part-time: School:
Wolverhampton City Campus - MK Building September 2009 or January 2010 1 year (48 weeks) 2 years (96 weeks) School of Art & Design
The MA course is delivered via a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, studio debates and independent study modules. Your study on this Masters programme will take place within our specialist divisions. Subject areas available to you are: • Applied Arts: Ceramics, Glass, Textiles or Interior Design • Digital Media: Animation, Interactive Media or Video & Film Production • Visual Communications: Graphic Communication or Illustration • Photography Your study will include Perspectives on Practice, Reflecting and Planning, and Creative Methodologies.
Course summary
Entry requirements
• We provide the academic and creative framework within which you clarify your own creativity, your skills in making, and your thinking about why you make.
• You should have a good Honours degree in an art and design-related subject.
• Our internationally-recognised staff of artists and designers are committed to helping you become the artist or designer that you want to be.
• Or a combination of relevant professional experience and formal qualifications.
• One third of your study will be art history and theory to underpin your practical development.
• You should also have a good standard of written and spoken English (IELTS 6.0 or equivalent).
• Your interests are developed through group tutorials, individual mentorship, and lecture and seminar programmes delivered by our expert staff and researchers, as well as by noted visiting speakers. • This programme has been specifically developed to provide you with the creative skills, critical perspective and theoretical background that you will need to fine-tune your creative interests. Image by Ashok Kumar
Future Prospects • Past students have entered employment in the visual arts, design and the creative industries.
• There is huge potential for selfemployment as an artist or designer in areas as diverse as ceramics, fabric design, community art and education, glass blowing, curating, environmental art and design, web design, graphic communications, web games, web graphics, interior design, illustration and video production. • You will also have the skills to present to an employer in any sector where a clear sense of personal inquiry, creativity and confidence in the development of technical skills is valued. • A PhD research degree is the next step in your academic development.
CONTACT: Colin Davies, MA Programme Manager, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton, City Campus, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT
MA Art & Design is designed to unlock your potential, abilities, interests and aspirations in making and designing. The programme has a focus on practice, which allows you to develop the level of skill needed to excel in your chosen field. Our MA Art & Design is a proven means for artists and designers to develop the skill they need to be a success in the creative industries.
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MA DESIGN FOR ADVERTISING
The course is suitable for people with a background in the visual arts, marketing or advertising - including fine art, graphic communication and business studies - and who would like to transfer their creative skills to the commercial world of advertising and design.
Campus/location: Start date: Full-time: Part-time: School:
Course summary
Wolverhampton City Campus September 2009 or January 2010 1 year (48 weeks) 2 years (96 weeks) School of Art & Design
The MA course is delivered via a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, studio debates and independent study modules. Working alongside both design and business students in some of your modules, this shared environment helps create a supportive atmosphere in which to develop a personal portfolio of work. The programme includes modules in Marketing which are taught by staff from the University of Wolverhampton Business School giving a business edge to your creative skills.
Future Prospects
• Uniquely, the programme allows you to study marketing modules • You can expect to find alongside design modules, and is positioned to capture the essence openings in advertising, of this new and expanding area of creativity in advertising - as well web design, digital as paving the way towards a rewarding career. design and graphic design, as well as • The MA will provide the expertise to enable you to enter the opportunities in market with a clear digital advantage - areas of study include education or as a selfdigital design, graphic design, advertising and marketing. employed designer/ • On completion, you will be equipped with the knowledge advertising consultant. and transferable skills necessary for employment in professions • A PhD research degree requiring research; presentation and teamworking skills; initiative is the next step in your and personal responsibility; strategic thinking and decision-making. academic development • You will also develop a faculty for independent learning - a key - find out more about requirement for successful continuing professional development research in the School in your chosen area of expertise. of Art & Design.
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Entry requirements • Normally, you should have a good Honours degree or equivalent - although substantial professional experience can substitute for graduate status . • We look for graduates with an appropriate Honours degree in an art or design subject
• You should also have a good standard of written and spoken English (IELTS 6.0 or equivalent).
Typical modules may include: • Marketing for Communication • Reflecting and Planning
• Graduates from other • Creative Enquiry disciplines (eg. Marketing • Advertising for the Web and PR) may still be • Psychology of the Image eligible for entry.
CONTACT: Colin Davies, MA Programme Manager, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton, City Campus, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT
MA aims to unlock the creative processes that inform contemporary advertising.
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MA FINE ART
We have an outstanding team of active research staff contributing to the MA Fine Art. Their knowledge and experience provides the core strength of our MA at Wolverhampton. The course is also supported by an ongoing series of lectures by guest speakers.
The MA course is delivered via a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, studio debates and independent study modules. You have access to the sculpture yard, foundry, wood, metal and printmaking workshops, plus painting studios, photography studios, darkrooms, and digital media facilities. Each semester there are a number of field trips and gallery visits and an (optional) overseas trip.
debate and think otherwise.
We are looking to recruit ambitious and enthusiastic individuals with a background in art and design, who are willing to challenge themselves, participate in open
Campus/location: Start date: Full-time: Part-time: School:
Course summary
Entry requirements
• The MA Fine Art programme provides subject-specific teaching, alongside a critical lecture series within an intellectually-supportive environment.
• You should have an appropriate Honours degree in an art and design-related subject.
• The programme aims to help you in developing and realising your concepts and ideas as an artist.
• Or a combination of relevant professional • You will have access to studio space, and every semester you get experience and formal the chance to experience a number of field trips and gallery visits qualifications. • On completion, your work will be exhibited and publicised • You should also have a in a stand-alone exhibition. good standard of written
• You will gain an understanding of key aspects of art history and theory, as well as an awareness of the social and institutional context within which artwork exists. • Fine Art is home to some of the most dynamic and researchactive staff in the School including a number of artists and writers with international research profiles and a wide range of professional experience. Image by Caroline Cleary
and spoken English (IELTS 6.0 or equivalent).
Future Prospects • There is extensive potential for selfemployment as an artist, in areas as diverse as
Wolverhampton City Campus September 2009 or January 2010 1 year (48 weeks) 2 years (96 weeks) School of Art & Design
public and community art, environmental art, gallery exhibitions and curating. • You could find employment in the visual arts in one of the creative industries in the private sector or public sector. • You will be equipped to take up positions in a wide range of sectors requiring research and presentation skills, team working, the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility, and decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations
• Not only that, you will acquire the independent learning ability required for continuing professional development. • A PhD research degree is the next step in your academic development.
Typical modules may include: • Audience and Display • Creative Enquiry • History and Theory of the Avant-Garde • Theory and Contemporary Practice
CONTACT: Dr ALISTAIR PAYNE, COURSE LEADER, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton, City Campus, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT
Fine Art is a broad based course, which aims to help you in developing and realizing your concepts and ideas as an artist. The course will expand your knowledge and understanding of the critical discourses, histories and contexts from which contemporary art is constructed. It will also equip you with the tools necessary to question received ideas and orthodoxies across a range of art practices and theoretical positions.
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RESEARCH IN ART & DESIGN
The standing of our research community was confirmed in the recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). The RAE 2008, Britain’s nationwide assessment of international research excellence, found that 10% of research in the School of Art and Design is world leading, 25% is internationally excellent and an additional 50% is recognized internationally.
THE research groups Art, Practice and Critical Theory: This group is noted for its work on critical theory as well as exhibition. The researchers have expertise in theories and material skills that inform modern making, and engage in analysis and critique of both the formal and cultural issues related to contemporary representation and expression. Members of the group utilise a full range of 2D, 3D and time-based media skills and approaches. Material Design and Applied Art: This group champions craft as an experimental and future looking practice. Its members are engaged with aesthetic, technical, creative, historical and methodological research that challenges the boundaries of established craft practice. The group has expertise in the plastic arts and 3D design, most specifically in the areas of art glass, tableware design in silver, as well as ceramics, architectural ceramics and textiles. Art, Society and Environment: This group is interested in how artists critically engage in the public realm in ways that serve ideals of radical democracy and creativity in the public interest. The research group brings together artists and writers with a wide range of skills, who question and interrogate the context, environment and situation of art.
The School of Art and Design is one of the most significantly improved groups of art and design researchers in the UK. Prof Tim Collins said, “We established the Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation three years ago to focus and develop the strengths in our research culture. We have a robust group of PhD students, a fascinating research lecture series and a new curatorial fellow. The School of Art and Design continues to move forward and contribute to the form and function of Art and Design in the 21st Century.”
Art, Design and Creative Technology: This group blends the interdisciplinary expertise of artists, designers and computing experts in areas such as animation, games design, graphic design, illustration, and interactive and web-based media. The group’s main focus is on technology as a means of developing and delivering creative content and exploring human inter-relationships through programmed interactivity and immersive and discursive/narrative environments.
Each research group is led by a senior researcher (professor or reader) and research staff are affiliated with one of the groups. To meet students’ interests in interdisciplinary approaches to art and design, we have forged relationships in the humanities, computer science and architecture/planning to provide the best interdisciplinary PhD experience possible.
CONTACT: Emma Angus, School of Art & Design, University of Wolverhampton, City Campus, Molineux Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DT
Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation (CADRE) is a robust group of over thirty researchers who are organized into research groups according to their areas of expertise. Each of our research groups is recognized for work that is both forward looking and influential in the world of art and design.
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