What will I learn?

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.

Study options

Full Time (1 Year)

Tuition fees

£12,500.00 (13,61,952) per year

Accommodation - £520 – £740

This is a fixed fee

Start date

September 2026

Venue

Wrexham Campus

Mold Road, Wrexham,

Wrexham,

Borough,

LL11 2AW, Wales, United Kingdom

Entry requirements

For international students

We currently require an initial degree in a relevant subject, classified as First Class or 2:1, or evidence of recent activity in the subject equivalent to these classifications as determined by interview. All applicants to the MA Painting programme are required to submit a portfolio as part of the application process.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.