The new MFA in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art offers a unique blend of studio and theoretical training. On the programme students will develop their practice as an artist while critically reflecting on and locating that practice within a changing social, political and cultural context. Students will have the opportunity to take one art theory module with the world-renowned Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), and work across a range of media, taking advantage of the School's new cutting-edge workshops.
This course is studio-based and research-centred. Developing students' personal vision and understanding of collaborative practice, they will create clear and meaningful work to consolidate and strengthen their position as an artist and creative practitioner.
Students will produce self-initiated work from the outset. Individual tutorials, seminar presentations and practical workshops will support their studies. Students will be able to develop a major body of practical work that engages with the context of a critical understanding of contemporary fine art practice.
Through a student-centred approach to teaching and learning students will be encouraged to work on individual projects as well as experiment with collaborative modes of production and exhibition, developing relevant artistic and curatorial strategies both within the field of contemporary art and across broader cultural contexts. A programme of lectures, studio seminars and personal tutorials will connect students to a network of artists, curators, writers and gallerists as they explore what it means to make art in the 21st century.
Graduates have progressed to careers in curation, arts administration, project management, arts education and PhD study, and have established arts collectives internationally.
