On the 20th August I attended the MA fine art UON open day to get more information about the course and whether it would be suitable for me to attend.
I had a 45 min conversation with Richard Hollinshead, who is one of the course lecturers, and tour of the studio spaces. My main concerns were / are my lack of Art History background and knowledge. Richard suggested a conversation with the course lead Craig Staff to discuss with him his recommendations. At this stage Richard didn’t believe this would be a major problem as students have come various backgrounds including english and music. We both thought that doing the MA at Northampton had the advantages (apart from the financial ones) that I know the University layout, systems and a number of lecturers, demonstrators, students from various departments so it wouldn’t be a completely new start and have the issues that entails. It would be with a new department, group of colleagues and lecturers which would give a fresh perspective to my work and hopefully inspiration.
Following the Open Day I attended an online “living room lecture” with Craig Staff. This ran through the structure of the course, examples of previous work and some the the facilities and field trips.
