Fine Art

Qualifications

An Australian bachelor degree (or equivalent) in an art and design field with at least a distinction average (70%) in 24 points of level three units in the intended honours discipline.

Alternative qualifications and prerequisites

For other domestic and international qualification entry requirements and scores for this course use the study credit and admissions eligibility search.

English entry requirements

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Applicants must submit a folio of their work and a detailed proposal outlining the aims, objectives and method of presentation of final submission. Applicants may be required to attend an interview.

What should you include in your folio?

The folio should include 10-15 pieces of work.

For applicants focusing on Fine art studio, the works should be carefully selected to showcase the technical skills, visual sophistication and current theoretical interests of work produced either during their undergraduate degree or in a course of independent study.

For applicants focusing on Curating, the folio should detail any practical works that demonstrate their curatorial interest (curated exhibitions and/or exhibition collateral they have produced, selected artworks), along with sample essay(s) produced either during their undergraduate degree or in a course of independent study.

For applicants focusing on Art history and theory, the folio could be a smaller selection of essays produced either during their undergraduate degree or in a course of independent study.

Supporting research activity such as drawings, sketchbooks, notebooks or journals that demonstrate your developmental and working processes can be presented at the interview.

Your folio will be assessed on the following criteria, which also form the agenda and expectations for study during the honours year:

Technique
The selection of and capability with techniques and materials appropriate to the research topic under investigation.

Ideas
Evidence of an informed and reasoned approach to creative practice: an awareness of the scope of the subject matter chosen for investigation; and knowledge of relevant precedents and the current context for such practice.

Progress
Evidence in the work to date of a sustained investigation of the initial premise and where necessary the expansion or re-definition of the parameters of the inquiry.

Resolution
The ability to formally resolve ideas in a way communicable to the assessors / interviewers, as appropriate to the line of inquiry undertaken and level of completion reached.

Divergent thinking
The capacity for the candidate to operate in a way that is original in relation to the precedents and parameters identified for their practice, contributing to current debates concerning their particular interest in the international field.

Research Proposal

Your research proposal should contain the following headings:

Title
The proposed title of your project.

Research topic outline
A one to three sentence description that briefly encapsulates your project.

Preamble
This should be brief, a one or two paragraph description of your current work or study (150 words).

Project
A description of your proposed project or thesis including the historical and theoretical contexts relevant to your project (300-500 words).

Aims
Using point form, an outline of the aims of your project or thesis (approximately five distinct aims – 100 words).

Methods
A description of your research methods, studio or theoretical, giving an indication of the motives that guide the research and suggesting approaches to your work and reading that you expect to follow to achieve the aims (200 words).

Prior Reading
Using point form, an outline of the key texts and research topics that have informed your practice to date.

Also, please include a coversheet which states:

• Proposal for Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
• Monash University Art Design & Architecture
• Your full name and academic qualifications
• The proposed title and research topic outline
• The date