Fine Art - MA 

at Birmingham City University, Birmingham

What we would like to see in your portfolio

1. Making and thinking skills
2. The development of ideas
3. Willingness to experiment using a range of media, materials and processes
4. Creativity and visual curiosity
5. Self-motivation, individuality and a sense of your interests, passion and personality
6. Commitment to art practice

Format

1. Please submit your work as one PDF, PowerPoint or Word Document.
2. Aim to include approximately 20 pieces of work.
3. Your digital portfolio should be no more than 10MB. Please compress your file if it exceeds the limit.
4. Add any links to video, animations, and moving image work to your PDF, PowerPoint or Word Document. (Please check that these links work before you submit your portfolio and that they can be easily accessed. We will not be able to view links that require a password).

Tips for your portfolio: Content

1. A range of work which can be experiments, research or work in progress (unfinished pieces). Examples of the type of work that you can include are drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, animations, films, sculptures, installations, multimedia outcomes, digital artwork and textiles (photographs of larger or 3D works can be included as representations in physical portfolios; for digital portfolios please indicate scale and medium in the documentation of work).
2. We are interested in your processes; the way you develop your ideas and approaches to making. As such we are keen to see tests and some sketchbook works.
3. You can include work you have made at School, College or University and/or work you have made independently or outside of an educational curriculum.
4. Include your most recent work and present it in a coherent order. Remember the order you present it in is the order it will be viewed in.
5. Demonstrate your interest and awareness of contemporary art practice by providing evidence of exhibitions you’ve visited and artists whose work you have looked at.