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Master of Arts Fine Arts
Duration:
1.5 years (3 semesters), Full-Time (January 2011 Intake)
The Master of Arts Fine Arts cultivates a teaching and learning methodology that values artistic practice. It strives for a balance between contemporary art practice within your own socio-cultural milieu and theoretical discourses around it. The programme also underscores the beliefs that through studio experimentation and innovation, it is the role of the artist in research that generates and produces individual self-discipline, knowledge and discoveries that is pertinent to the realisation of artistic language/vocabulary. You will acquire knowledge of the comprehensive critical, theoretical and historical discourses that inform contemporary artistic practice.
You will receive quality education through rigorous training that integrates research and practice, develop your abilities to conceptualise creatively, reflect upon your practice, and grow your individual and collaborative skills.
The programme enables a diversity of contemporary arts practice that includes Drawing, Graphic Novel, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Site Specific and Time-Based Art. Candidates can locate their research area within the context of their mode of expression or choose to work with an inter-disciplinary approach.
A painting by LASALLE Alumnus Andre Tan
Applicant Profile
This programme will be of particular relevance to candidates who wish to embark on but is not limited to a career as fine artists, in academic institutions, museums or art galleries. In addition, successful graduates will also be able to find employment as art critics and writers. The programme also aims, through its commitment to excellence, to further the discourses surrounding the contemporary art and art historical contexts through research and practice conducted by candidates in the programme.
Programme Structure
Semester 1 & 2
Modules: Studio Practice 1 and 2; Research and Concept Development 1 and 2
Semester 1 encourages you to develop a rigorous research and studio practice in tandem with the opportunity to conceptualise, analyse and evaluate ideas. Within a supportive studio environment, a variety of components and theoretical approaches appropriate for the study and exploration of fine arts will be systematically initiated. You will be exposed to various processes and methodology involved in your research area and practice. You will also be communicating your research topic through writing. Exposure to academic conventions via workshops is provided to develop autonomous research strategies and you are given extensive freedom and opportunity to realise projects in the medium or media associated with your nominated specialisation. As indicated above, the named awards - Masters of Arts Fine Arts - provide indicative boundaries that frame the context of the candidates’ study in studio practice. Care will be taken to ensure that individual learning strategies retain and maintain the appropriate focus to their nominated expressions of media.
A painting inspired by film and pop culture by Vincent Leow
In Semester 2, the programme continues the philosophy of being flexible and not being unnecessarily prescriptive. Your knowledge and skills set introduced in Semester One will be strengthened alongside the means by and through which individual and collaborative skills are enhanced to enable original, confident and intelligible artistic practice.
You will elaborate on formal techniques or references in relation to studio practice while simultaneously work towards developing of a substantial body of work. As exposure to a postgraduate community and culture increases, a wider understanding of the relationship between studio practice, research and professional activity is enhanced, thus enabling you to articulate your research topics more cogently with your practice.
Semester 3
Module: Final Research Project
Semester 3 focuses on the culmination of knowledge and articulation of current concerns vis-à-vis an exhibition and consolidated papers in the form of an exegesis. In this semester, critical objectivity of relevant works in both studio practice and written material is needed/crucial. A strong correlation between your proposal and the exhibited works should be evident. Both independent and collaborative aspects of working as well as flexible strategies to problem solving are significant criteria in this final stage of the programme.
Fabric manipulation through rust and weathering by an MA Fine Arts candidate
Teaching Methods & Assessments
The programme is delivered through a range of learning approaches that include lectures, workshops, seminars, group discussions and critiques, student presentations and individual tutorials. These approaches support the Masters candidates as they work towards a Final Research Project comprising of an exhibition of artworks and a supporting document in the form of an exegesis. Candidates are expected to be self-motivated, to engage in independent visual and theoretical research, as well as to develop the ability to evaluate their own work and to expand their awareness the critical developments in contemporary art. Two feedback reports from each of the studio and exegesis supervisors are provided per semester on a quarterly basis. In the area of assessments, feedback reports from internal and external assessors are included in within the 3 semesters.
For more information about the programme and admission, contact us.
For detailed entry requirements, please go to Entry Requirements.
To apply, please go to Applications.
