Master of Arts [M.A] [Art and Design - Illustration Pathway] From Cardiff Metropolitan University

Illustrators now need to deploy their skills in the wider political and cultural arena with more urgency and vigour than ever. Illustrators have the skill to help people understand a deeper sense of what is important, through mythologising our past present and future enabling societies to come to terms with the uncertainty of their predicament.

We look to recruit brave, speculative, imaginative and dedicated creative graduates who share the leading-edge-research concern for illustration and our instinct to imagine and explain; deploying speculative methods with 'transdisciplinarity' at the core.

ThisÊIllustration pathway is part of our MA Art and Design - Illustration Pathway at Cardiff Metropolitan University will appeal to graduates of any discipline, UK and international students, of the visual arts, and professionals looking to sharpen their critical and theoretical skills.

Through a combination of self-directed studio practice, lectures, seminar sessions, and reading groups, students will be closely and individually guided in their own explorations of their practice as a critical and re-directive process.

Employability & Careers:

The MA Art and Design acts as a gateway to research or advanced experimental practice. It has an option for students to focus on research (by taking the initial formal PG Cert Research Skills module) or by taking an alternative creative practice route both leading towards potential future MPhil/PhD study. Students taking the MA Art and Design align with specific research and experimental practice pathways, led by academic staff with established practice careers and/or advanced scholarship and research.

The MA Art and Design programme is designed to enable students to achieve the attributes of greater flexibility, adaptability, and individual responsibility and autonomy as professional artists, designers or researchers. The MA Art and Design programme aims to develop increasing creativity, self-reliance, initiative, and the ability to perform in rapidly changing environments as well as increasing competence with research skills and methods which will make graduates highly employable as academics and or researchers or enable them to develop an active and sustained practice as artists or designers.

All students' are expected to complete a portable 'record of achievement' and use their PDP to support employability and life-long learning, normally in the form of a blog, that integrates opportunities for self-reflection in programmes in order to help them develop as effective and confident learners.