Master of Fine Art
The Master of Fine Art programme seeks to attract applicants with outstanding creative ability, who are highly self-motivated and who are committed to developing their art practice to a professional standard. The programme supports a wide rang of modes of exploration, within which students can demonstrate the creative, practical and intellectual concerns in their work. It aims to promote original Fine Art research through practice, which is capable of presentation as an exhibition or equivalent public output at key stages of the course and to enable students to translate this into a professional context with an international perspective.
The over-riding philosophy of the course is to provide a sensitive and structured environment for the development of studio practice leading to the pursuance of art making as a professional activity. This ambition is borne out by the success of a high proportion of graduates who practice as professional artists at international and national level. Three graduates of the programme have been short-listed for the prestigious Turner Prize. Artworks by other graduates feature in prominent public and private collections including Tate, The Arts Council of Ireland, AIB Collection, Arts Council of England Collection, FNAC, Paris.
The course aims to promote original Fine Art research through practice enabling each student to conduct and resolve research that is capable of presentation as public exhibition. It aims to provide an environment that supports a wide range of modes of production within which students can demonstrate an understanding of the creative, practical and intellectual concerns implicit in their practice as artists. The course supports students committed to the development of ambitious art practice is becoming increasingly popular as a route to practice led PhDs.
