This course is designed to support a sustained period of enquiry that enables students to attain a high level of artistic practice and professional competence; it fosters the belief that fine art practices are a rich and potent source for imagining and developing unique ways of conceiving, thinking, and acting in the world today; to compliment the idea of learning through making, students' artwork, and its associated ideas and concepts, are subjected to artistic and critical scrutiny; this provides a means of gaining a critically informed understanding of the student's individual practice and its position within the field of contemporary art; the course focuses on ideas and concerns of contemporary art to provide a common ground for students; it actively celebrates the diversity of contemporary practice; inspiration for recent projects have been drawn from areas including: Archives; narratives; philosophies; personal histories; sciences; literatures; geographies; religions; space; gender; childhood memory; time; technologies; body; weather cycles; gardening; perception and ritual; students on the course have produced work using a range of media including: drawing; textiles; fibre arts; painting; printmaking; textual practices; sculpture; performance; installation; video; sound; photography and digital media.