RMIT University
Master of Fine Art
Overview
RMIT offers a hub for emerging artists, researchers and practitioners to cultivate contemporary art practice and gain exposure through local and international exhibitions.
This degree is designed to help those with emerging art practices who are looking to focus their work, and those who seek to expand and extend their existing practices.
The Master of Fine Art is structured in a way that allows ample room for experimentation. You will be mentored and challenged by academic staff who are professional artists, performers, writers, historians and curators to explore multiple media, conceptual tools and techniques, and narrow your focus down to the core of what you want to create and communicate as an artist.
Professional practice is offered in media including:
- art and technology
- drawing
- ceramics
- gold and silversmithing
- painting
- performance
- photography
- print media
- sculpture
- spatial practice and installation
- social practice
- sound
- video.
Every student will have access to a studio space in the heart of Melbourne’s vibrant and culturally diverse CBD.
You will be taught by leading and highly-active professional artists and curators who will mentor you in exploring multiple media, conceptual tools and techniques, and challenge you to narrow your focus to the core of what you want to create and communicate as an artist. Throughout your studies, you’ll be surrounded by a community of emerging and established artists, who generate projects and exchange knowledge and expertise.
You’ll hone your technical skills using state-of-the-art equipment, resources, materials and technology relating to your craft, including:
- sculpture and light fabrication workshops
- high-end printing facilities
- ceramic workshops and kilns
- media and sound recording studios
- photography studios
- gold and silversmithing workshops
- traditional printmaking workshops.
The capstone experience of this degree is a major project that culminates in an exhibition of creative work for assessment. Your work will be presented to an industry assessor, unfamiliar with your work much in the way a reviewer, funder, gallerist or curator would be, to provide an arts industry context where feedback is integral to your learning and success.
Blended learning options
Courses offered as part of blended learning programs include a meaningful blend of online, on-campus, and workplace based learning tailored to the type of study you undertake. This learning is active, prioritising tasks that involve exploration and development of skills and knowledge through interaction and engagement.
Online aspects provide positive benefits such as flexibility and adaptability using digital activities and materials, while also strengthening the interaction and connection with timetabled and on-campus experiences such as tutorials, practicals, or workshops.
Applications Open
Mar 2, 2023
