Fine Art at Newcastle’s research strategy involves inviting researchers into the unit to work alongside artist-fellows and other researchers on short term projects, facilitating their research. To this end, we have a firm commitment to supporting research around the full range of traditional, contemporary and emerging studio-based art practices, along with the associated theoretical and historical discourses. This commitment matches our long-standing pluralistic philosophy around undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, where we have a well-established four-year UG Fine Art BA and two-year MFA programme.
We are partners in large RCUK-funded collaborative and multidisciplinary projects – and we are aligned with the University’s research institutes and initiatives, NISR and NICAP – the Newcastle Institutes for Social Renewal and for Creative Arts Practice, which now provides an ambitious new framework for research and doctoral training for creative practitioners across the university.