Painting

Entry requirements

All applicants to the MA Painting programme are required to submit a portfolio as part of the application process.

Portfolios are typically comprised of 10-15 images of your strongest, most relevant work, but can also include additional media elements such as video, writing samples, documentation of exhibitions, etc.

The portfolio submission allows applicants to demonstrate their talents, creative thinking, technical skills, and artistic motivations visually.

Reviewing applicants' portfolios gives our teaching team deeper insight into prospective students' potential to positively contribute to and successfully undertake this specialised postgraduate programme.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This innovative MA painting course focuses on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues. The course provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.

This course:

• Is focused on enabling painters to evolve as self-reflective, critical artists engaging with current and emergent issues.
• Provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.
• Is structured to build your skills, creative inquiry, and career prospects within fine art painting.
• Develops advanced technical abilities and material innovations while immersed in critical painting methodologies.
• Emphasises cultivating creative thinking, conceptual rigor and employability.
• Progresses through practice-based research helping find innovative solutions to aesthetic and conceptual challenges.
• Will refine your artistic aims within contemporary painting.
• Is guided by independent and collaborative learning, you will progress through workshops, critiques and seminars aimed to foster a versatile, inquisitive and dynamic painting practitioner engaging with the creative economy.

Key course features

• Guest lectures, industry partnerships, and optional work placements provide insight into real-world contexts, expanding networks and employability prospects.
• Regular exhibitions, critiques and peer collaboration mirror professional fine art settings, encouraging critical reflection and communication abilities.
• Opportunities to exhibit both on and off-campus nurture creative entrepreneurship.
• A studio-situated teaching model combines practical workshops, lectures, seminars, and independent study.
• The hybrid delivery approach efficiently utilises on-campus facilities while enabling remote learning.

Fees and funding

You do not have to pay your tuition fees upfront.

Wrexham University’s tuition fees for 2024/25 for MA Painting are £5,940

The fees you pay and the support available will depend on a number of different factors. Full information can be found on our fees & funding pages.