Part-Time Masters Course in Fine Art

It has been a while since I updated this blog due to a heavy workload and several other commitments over the past couple of months which have left me with very little time for anything. I try to update the photoblog every 2/3 days by uploading a new image but most of those lately have been images taken on previous occasions as I have not even had the time to get out with my camera! That is going to change, as I have no intention of slipping back into old habits and taking on too much work.

I have started a part time masters course at the University of Central Lancashire, doing an MA in Fine Art - Site & Archive Interventions. I am really excited about this - I never had the opportunity to go to university, left school at 15 and had no formal academic qualifications, so I am really looking forward to spending the next two years working on a research project which has interested me for some time. I believe that this whole process will prove immensely helpful and will enable me to more clearly see the direction I want to take with my photography.  

It will undoubtedly benefit me as an individual as well as artistically - the Faculty of Art & Fashion at UCLAN is highly regarded and I am lucky to have renowned artist Professor Lubaina Himid as one of my course tutors.

I was encouraged to apply for the course whilst working towards my BIPP Associateship when I found I really enjoyed the research, thought processes and image making which ran alongside it and that I had identified an area of research which I could pursue. I applied, not really believing I would be offered a place and when I was, after wrestling with whether I should really do it, I eventually accepted with full support from my family. I will update this blog as the course progresses and hope that it may serve as encouragement to anyone else thinking of taking a similar step.