OVADA presents highlights from the 2020 and 2021 Oxford Brookes Masters in Fine Art
graduation show. This will be the first time these works have been open to view: due to the
pandemic, the 2020 cohort held their final show entirely online, while the 2021 group
installed a physical show but were unable to open to the public.
“These students have each emerged with practices that may differ from those they
envisaged when they joined the MFA. Such shifts in practice are to be expected when
undertaking intense periods of research activity and critical inquiry. However, the
intellectual technical and creative challenges that are part of the MFA journey have, for
these artists, been brought into a sharper focus, geared towards getting the most from
working in ways shaped by the pandemic experience as well as being informed by other
important issues of our time. In this regard, ‘uncertainty’ has become an important
prevailing characteristic, a tool in developing a critical position.”

– Clair Chinnery, Subject co-ordinator for MFA Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University