Fine Art MFA at Masters Showcase

Our MFA Fine Art course embraces all forms of art practice and celebrates the inherent diversity in each student cohort, providing our students the opportunity to develop their art practice in a supportive, collegiate and nurturing environment. The highly interdisciplinary nature of the course encourages an exploration of visual knowledge and expression across a range of platforms. 

Hope as an act of healing

Informed by people with lived experience of stroke, Alison Price explores neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to adapt – and the potential for healing through art.

She works with fragile, memory-holding materials such as cracked paperclay and creased translucent paper, embracing imperfections as reflections of our own mutability. Repetitive processes including layering clay, casting, electroforming copper, and meditative drawing echo the repetition involved in forming new neural pathways.

Influenced by research into art and health, the 2026 Healing Arts Scotland conference and Daksha Patel’s engagement with Parkinson’s research, Alison’s work aims to spark conversations about the value of arts engagement and its potential to offer richer, creative approaches to rehabilitation.