Master of Arts - Textiles

MA Textiles, based at UCA Farnham, is built around developing students' individual research into textile art, culture, craft and design and will enable them to combine previous experience of textiles practice with a personal project.  

Students will be encouraged and supported through the process of exploration, transformation through to resolution. Challenging their own conventions, they’ll innovate with materials, processes, techniques and ideas and emerge with a renewed sense of personal vision.

Students will benefit from UCA's links with established artists and designers drawn from a UK and international cohort. Their team comprises eminent professors, visiting scholars, academics and associate lecturers, experienced practitioners, designer-makers, artists and researchers, who work in industry, produce commissions and who regularly exhibit and are published internationally.

The course programme includes opportunities for live working projects with established galleries. The content of lectures and seminars focuses on professional practice, including high profile guest speakers from art, craft, industry and design practices.

UCA curates their own Textile Collection, which provides their students with an enviable on-site archive of historical and contemporary material objects to study. Also located on the Farnham campus is the internationally renowned Crafts Study Centre, UCA’s purpose-built museum, research centre and gallery dedicated to crafts. They have a long list of alumni who set up as designer-makers and practice as textile artists and many work in education as academics and researchers.