MRes Art and Design at Bath Spa University

MRes Art and Design is a natural first step towards a PhD, and can also be your route to creating a new product or body of work for the marketplace.

You'll have the opportunity to develop your bold ideas - from commercial products to fine art exhibitions - while earning a postgraduate degree.

Using knowledge at the forefront of the discipline, the Master's in Art and Design aims to enhance the skills you'll need to develop and maintain a successful career as an artist, designer, curator or cultural and creative industries practitioner.

This Master's in Art and Design offers you the flexibility to shape your learning in support of a major independent project that you have conceived and planned.

The course is intended to support you to become a practitioner, able to strategise and lead within a creative industries context.  

The bi-weekly MRes forum brings together staff and students from across the School to hear from visiting practitioners and discuss themes pertinent to your research.

Careers

Further study towards a practice or theory-based doctorate in Art and Design presents a clear opportunity, but it's not the only path open to you as a student of MRes Art and Design.

Throughout the course, you'll be supported by colleagues from our Careers department with specific advice designed to help you develop your career aspirations in this field.

Graduates of the School have gone on to become designers within industry, brand developers, illustrators, fine artists, textiles designers, and curators, to name a few.