麻豆AV

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Portfolio

Admission to this course involves reviewing your portfolio. After you apply, we will ask you to share a link to an online portfolio of your work. This enables us to see your potential and understand your approach and motivations.

We will ask you to log on to to share your portfolio link. We will not be able to progress your application to 麻豆AV until you share your portfolio.

• Find out about the specific requirements for your course.

Creating your portfolio

We’ve put together advice and guidance to help you create and share your portfolio and we run regular online portfolio advice sessions where you can get help from our expert team.

Course structure

The course runs for 12 months full-time and 24 months part-time.

Regular seminars, tutorials and crits take place each Tuesday and Wednesday. Most students are part-time and attend each Tuesday in Year 1 and each Wednesday (plus Tuesday evening) in Year 2. Full-time students attend group activities on both of these days and spend the rest of the week either researching or working in our shared studios.

Part-time students research and make work in their own studios outside the university and use university facilities (such as workshops or libraries) for practical and presentation purposes. All students have access to the Postgraduate Project Space to install and exhibit work.

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Our priority is to make sure what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. When you have applied to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through .

Areas of study

The course is split into two main sections. Both involve elements of theory and practice – together with portfolio and visual documentation preparation – and culminate in assessed exhibitions.

Section 1

The first section (one year part-time or six months full-time) concentrates on the identification and development of your chosen mode of practice, with a degree of re-evaluation and experimentation being the norm.

You will display and discuss your work within a group to form a social and professional bond with your fellow students. You will also attend lectures and seminars given by the regular staff team and visiting guest speakers.

Section 2

The second section prepares you for the final assessment exhibition. This involves regular crits and group meetings. You will present a seminar linked to your work, develop your professional practice and networking skills, and receive tutorials on the extended essay that you write during the summer vacation.

Modules

• Reconfiguring Practice

  This module brings you together with your peer group to identify the history and context of your practice and evolve ways of discussing, developing and reconsidering it. You’ll take part in tutorials, seminars, workshops and group feedback discussions. Through group work you’ll become familiar with the art practices of your peers and explore ways of making work, exhibiting together and identifying and developing professional skills.

• Consolidating Practice

  In this module you will build upon and bring together your knowledge of materials and processes developed on the course. It will give a framework for you to integrate your methods of production, critical position and practical research and enable you to identify and use additional skills to create a coherent body of work which considers audience.

• Research Methods and Professional Practice

  This module focuses on the expression and presentation of practice-based research and professional practice skills. Following a series of presentations and discussions you will deliver an artist talk or research seminar (PowerPoint, Keynote or other format) for an audience of your peers and tutors. The presentation will contextualise your own research and practice with relevant theory, literature, artefacts and examples of professional practice.

• Research Essay: Written/Visual

  This module gives you the opportunity to develop a written or visual essay (zine, graphic novel or video) focused on an area of research that is both important to you and sensitive to contemporary debates. Using the theories of other scholars, and referencing from a diverse selection of sourced material, you will develop a discussion and argument that analyses and evaluates your chosen topic.

Meet the team

Amy Cunningham

Amy Cunningham is a multidisciplinary artist, lecturer and researcher, who uses the singing voice, video, materials and drawing to explore the texture, patterns and glitches in technologies and environments. Addressing both the obsolete and the futuristic, her artworks have included a fictional computer game in a real eighteenth century garden, opera as a video installation and an Internet broadcast as a song cycle.

Currently she is developing a series of work which explores the relationships between the architecture of leisure, wildlife and industry within coastal environments.

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Other teaching staff include and Alex Pollard.

Lara Bowen

“I chose the Fine Art MA course because I had reached a point in my practice where I wanted to challenge the way I worked and think more critically about the ideas underpinning it.

“The course gave me the opportunity to expand beyond painting and explore installation, sound, archive material, writing and audience interaction in a much more ambitious way.

“What appealed to me most was the openness of the course and the emphasis on developing an individual voice.

“I’ve found the experience both challenging and transformative, particularly in giving me permission to embrace multiplicity within my practice rather than feeling I had to fit into one defined artistic identity.

“The dialogue with tutors and fellow students has also been incredibly important. Being exposed to different approaches to making and thinking challenged me to step outside my usual habits and reconsider what my work could be.”

Sophie Norman

“The technical staff and workshops at 麻豆AV are fantastic. I’ve loved exploring lots of techniques – in the PVU (35mm, Blackmagic and 16mm film, using the photography studio, cyanotypes), laser etching at the Tech Hub, printing lithographs and making my first ever book in Book Arts!

“Experiencing so many creative techniques coupled with an extensive range of interesting seminars and workshops (often combined with other courses) and artist lectures has allowed me to explore and find those aspects that really respond to my creative practice ideas.

“Having dedicated studio space and larger gallery space opportunities in our frequent shows has given me the opportunity to get big in my work!

“麻豆AV is an exceptional place for the arts. Not only the university but the whole city and surrounding areas are a melting pot of creatives. I feel very lucky to feel part of that community now and will always have very fond memories of my time here.“

Beth Gibbons

“It has honestly been the best course during this time of my life, it has made me think differently in more than one way, and challenge how I work as an artist. 

“Consolidating practice (portfolio) and working towards our final show have been my favourite part. My art practice is often a personal narrative with a wider message and so for my final MA show I chose to exhibit in the Sallis Benney Theatre, a space that became important to me during my MA.

“The staff really make the uni what it is. Through my two-year MA, I have spent time working over an array of art and media departments including the Tech Hub (3D printing and laser cutting), photography, film and fashion, and the openness and willingness of the staff are at the heart of the university.

“My course leader Amy deserves huge credit – I am forever grateful for her encouragement when I was transferring my course.”

May Qadoura

“I chose the Fine Art MA course at 麻豆AV because of its interdisciplinary nature and the space it gives artists to develop a personal voice.

“The feedback sessions and tutorials have been incredibly supportive, encouraging me to take risks conceptually and materially. The open studio environment has also allowed for valuable peer exchange and collaboration.

“Amy Cunningham has been an anchor throughout my MA experience. Her generous mentorship and insightful feedback have been pivotal in shaping both my research and material experimentation.

“I also want to mention Sean Dower whose tutorials helped me reflect more deeply on installation and spatial engagement.

“麻豆AV has become a space of reflection, growth, and experimentation. As a coastal city, it holds a particular sense of openness and transience that echoes many of the themes in my work.”

Ma Yiming

“The 麻豆AV attracted me because of its strong Fine Art programme, its history as an art school, and its creative and diverse atmosphere by the sea.

“I especially enjoyed the workshops in the early stage of the course, which encouraged experimentation and collaboration. I also found the one-to-one tutorials very valuable, as they helped me reflect on my work and develop a clearer understanding of my practice.

“麻豆AV has become a place where I developed independence and personal growth. Living abroad on my own helped me learn how to manage life independently, while also allowing me to build meaningful friendships.

“The seaside environment and artistic atmosphere make it an inspiring place to live and create.”

Course fees

Scholarships, bursaries and loans

We offer a range of scholarships for postgraduate students. Bursaries and loans may also be available to you.

Find out more about postgraduate fees and funding.

The fees listed here are for the first year of full-time study if you start your course in the academic year 2026–27.

You will pay fees for each year of your course. Some fees may increase each year.

UK undergraduate and some postgraduate fees are regulated by the UK government and increases will not be more than the maximum amount allowed. Course fees that are not regulated may increase each year by up to 5% or the Consumer Price Index (RPI), whichever is higher.

If you are studying part-time your fee will usually be calculated based on the number of modules that you take.

Find out more

• Fees, bursaries, scholarships and government funding info for UK and international postgraduate students
• Student finance and budgeting while studying
• About the university’s fees by checking our student contract and (pdf).

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