Every student will have access to a studio space in the heart of Melbourne's vibrant and culturally diverse CBD.

You will be taught by leading and highly-active professional artists and curators who will mentor you in exploring multiple media, conceptual tools and techniques, and challenge you to narrow your focus to the core of what you want to create and communicate as an artist. Throughout your studies, you’ll be surrounded by a community of emerging and established artists, who generate projects and exchange knowledge and expertise.

You’ll hone your technical skills using state-of-the-art equipment, resources, materials and technology relating to your craft, including:

• sculpture and light fabrication workshops
  
• high-end printing facilities
  
• ceramic workshops and kilns
  
• media and sound recording studios
  
• photography studios
  
• gold and silversmithing workshops
  
• traditional printmaking workshops.

The capstone experience of this degree is a major project that culminates in an exhibition of creative work for assessment. Your work will be presented to an industry assessor, unfamiliar with your work much in the way a reviewer, funder, gallerist or curator would be, to provide an arts industry context where feedback is integral to your learning and success.

RMIT connects you with a network of practising artists, curators, historians, gallerists (including public, commercial and artist-run initiatives), theorists and critics, both local and international, to support your studies.

RMIT holds existing and longstanding partnerships and connections with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Contemporary Centre for Photography and many other institutions.

You’ll enter a diverse community of artists and form lasting connections with the teachers and fellow students that you will carry for the rest of your professional life.

You’ll draw on expertise from arts industry professionals through regular forums that examine various issues, opportunities and perspectives of the industry and models of contemporary art practice.

Through a professional practice seminar series, you will develop a proposal for an arts industry body that will be assessed by an expert with extensive experience in government and non-government galleries, funding bodies and publishers. The arts industry expert will provide feedback that you’ll have the opportunity to incorporate into your final proposal.

The RMIT Master of Fine Art is also delivered in Hong Kong. Visit the Hong Kong Art School for program information and to apply for this offering.

Master of Fine Art students are selected to attend the Tropical Lab intensive in Singapore, and RMIT frequently hosts a seminar for staff and students from LaSalle Singapore in Melbourne.

The RMIT International Artists in Residence Program (iAIR) gives you opportunities to apply for overseas art residencies, which have placed previous students in East China Normal University in Shanghai, China; Krems, Austria; Tokyo Wondersite, Japan; and the University of Lethbridge, Canada.

• 2 years full-time (without advanced standing)
• 1 - 1.5 years full-time (with advanced standing).

For further information about advanced standing see the Pathways section. 

The knowledge and skills you will acquire throughout this degree and how they can be applied in your career are described in the learning outcomes.

The subjects you will undertake are divided into three core streams:

• Studio Practice
  
• Creative Research
  
• Critical Frameworks.
  

Half of the degree is dedicated to studio time, making your studio central to the learning environment. Individual studio practice will be complemented by guest lectures, workshops and studio visits by international and local industry professionals.

Your creative research will encourage you to explore new ways of creating and skills for continual innovation, while critical frameworks will help you to develop your knowledge in building a sustainable enterprise and practice around your art.