MA Fine Art

Course summary:

MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts offers emerging artists an intensive programme of development to professional practice. The course is designed to help enhance the making, criticality and articulation of your practice. It aims to expand your work's audiences and contextual reach.

Experimental studio practice and individual inquiry are activated in professional contexts. These challenge what art is or could be, how art is communicated, and how artists can develop their practices in forward-thinking and culturally progressive ways.

Anyone Interested.

Course details:

This course is subject to re-validation. Re-validation is a process that makes sure students get a high quality academic experience. During re-validation there maybe be some changes to course content and structure. Please contact us if you have any questions about this course.

What students can expect:

• Regular studio consultancies, discussions, field trips and workshops
• To engage with a wide array of practitioners and thinkers
• To independently produce critically aware work
• To contextualise your work in relation to contemporary cultural practices and ideas
• To take part in discursive and collaborative practices with colleagues
• To build your professional experience and portfolio.
• This will be through regular participation in public exhibitions, events and publications
• To take part in our partnerships network. This currently includes the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Sotheby Institute of Art and the UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN). Together we organise workshops, lectures, seminars, studio visits, field trips and exhibitions
• A student run MA Fine Art public gallery located at Chelsea
• To contribute to the MA Fine Art student led online publication . This encourages expanded practices of writing, video, journalism, cultural criticism and arts communication
• To have access to Chelsea's shared workshops. These include ceramics, casting, laser cutting, photography, audio-visual editing suite, metal and woodwork.

Fees & Funding:

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University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist art and design university. Its unique creative community is made up of six renowned Colleges, each with its own world-class reputation: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts.

UAL is the world’s sixth best University for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings 2018. Offering an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts, UAL is the main talent pipeline to the UK’s creative industries.

Home to a diverse community of over 18,000 students from 129 countries, UAL has a track record for launching and furthering careers. Our graduates can be found in every part and at every level of the creative and cultural sectors, from heads of global business to self-employed practitioners, and on shortlists for awards ranging from the Turner Prize to the Oscars.

Building on UAL’s association with some of the most original thinkers in the arts, students and staff are inspired to challenge convention, generate new ideas and nurture talent. Home to award-winning staff and students for more than a century, UAL’s Colleges are at the forefront of learning, creativity and practice in their specialist subjects. This close-knit College structure offers opportunities for learning and enquiry for people at all stages of their creative development.