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MA Fine Art: Enrolment Information

MA Fine Art: Enrolment Information

This page  - and the resources included - will help you prepare for enrolment.

What's included on this page?

This page will help you prepare for enrolment and your first days with us at HCA. Below you will find:

  • Welcome Letter
  • New MA Students’ Reading List
  • Fees & Funding
  • Enrolment Timetable
  • Checklist for Enrolment
  • SRF Link

We look forward to seeing you on campus in September.

Welcome to MA Fine Art at HCA

We would like to welcome you to the MA Fine Art programme at HCA. We have really enjoyed meeting you at the various Open Days and interviews that have led up to your offer of a place on the course. 

The regular taught days each week for lectures, seminars, tutorials and group activities will be Monday and Thursday, usually commencing at 10 am.

Remember that if you are based in England or Wales you are entitled to apply for student finance.

Please find your Course Information Pack in preparation for your studies. The enclosed enrolment forms must be completed and handed in during enrolment. Enrolment will take place on Thursday 24th September at 10.30 am at our College Road Campus.

Details on fees and finance arrangements can also be found on the online Digital Information Pack. Should you require any assistance completing the forms, help will be on hand from Registry and the Finance team.

The Registry and Finance office will be open from 9.00am to 4.00pm throughout the summer; please call 01432 273359 or email registry@hca.ac.uk should you require any further information.

In September, we will set up the MA social media groups, which can be used to contact each other about news and events relating to the MA – the group name will be sent to you via email so that you can join if you have an account, and you can also follow the Fine Art Instagram profile on @hcafineart. This profile features images from the previous MA summer shows.

Over the summer, we would like you to continue to research, read, collect, make, experiment, visit exhibitions and engage with the subject matter that you are interested in developing on the MA. We would also like you to bring a copy of your MA proposal, with any updates, to your first session.

Have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you in September!

 

Best wishes,

Dr Daniel Pryde-Jarman

(Head of School) & the MA Fine Art team

Course Information

Suggested Reading List for MA module Research Practice (REP), Semester 1

 

Essential (we will refer to these texts in Reading Group sessions):

  • BARTHES, R. 2009. Mythologies, Vintage Classics
  • BAUDRILLARD, J. 1994. Simulation and Simulacra, University of Michigan
  • BENNETT, J. 2010. Vibrant Matter, Duke University Press Books
  • BISHOP, C. 2006. Participation, Whitechapel, London
  • BOURRIAUD, N. 2002. Relational Aesthetics, les presses du reel
  • DEBORD, G. 1992. Society of the Spectacle, Rebel Press, London
  • KRAUSS, R., FOSTER H. 2012. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, London: Thames and Hudson 
  • O'DOHERTY, B. 2000. Inside the White Cube. The Ideology of the Gallery Space. University of California Press
  • STEYERL, H. 2009. In Defence of the Poor Image, e-flux

 

Recommended:

  • ALLEN, P. ed. 2001. Art, Not Chance Nine Artists’ Diaries. Gulbenkian 
  • BARRETT, E. 2010. Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, I B Tauris 
  • COLLINS, H. 2010. Creative Research: The Theory and Practice of Research for the Creative Industries (Required Reading Range), London: AVA
  • FLOOD, R. HOPTMAN, L. and GIONI, M. 2007. Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. Phaidon 
  • GRAY, C., MALINS, J. 2004. Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Ashgate Publishing 
  • GARNER S. 2011. Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and Research. Intellect 
  • LIPPARD, L. 2007. The Lure of the Local: The Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society.  The New Press
  • PETHERBRIDGE, D. 2010. The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice. Yale University Press 
  • ROSE, G. 2006. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. Sage Publications
  • SCHWABSKY, B. 2004. Vitamin P (Painting) Phaidon   
  • STYLES, K. 1996. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: a Sourcebook of Artists’ Writing. University of California
  • SULLIVAN, G. ed. 2009. Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in Visual Arts. Sage Publications

MA Students: Fees & Funding

Enrolment timetable

Time
Course Thursday 24th Sept 2026
Year
Level
Mode of Study
Time 10.30am
Course MA Fine Art
Year 1 of 1
Level 7
Mode of Study FT

Enrolment Checklist

To make sure you are prepared on enrolment day, here is a checklist of everything you will need:

IMPORTANT: Special Requirements Form

Please complete the special requirements form prior to enrolment. Tap below and you can complete the form online. It should only take around 7 mins.

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