Goldsmiths, University of London
MFA Fine Art
London, United Kingdom
Master degree
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: This MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths subjects art-making to critical scrutiny and strengthens self-reflection in studio practice. You’ll explore what it means to practice as an artist today, placing work within historical contexts. The programme welcomes an international cohort and media; it emphasizes student-centered learning through studio seminars, tutorials and lectures that deepen understanding of contemporary art, theory, exhibition-making and research.
Career Outcomes: Graduates enter the creative sector as artists, curators, educators, gallery or museum professionals, arts administrators, public art producers, researchers and arts practitioners. They may also pursue residencies, teaching, writing, exhibition-making, cultural policy or doctoral research.
This MFA, described as one of the most influential MFA programmes in the world, subjects art-making to critical scrutiny. Artists on the programme strengthen the motivation, self-reflection and ambition of their practice and its leading ideas.
While on the programme you will continually engage with what it means to practise as an artist today and the position taken by an art-practice in relation to art's complex history and its currency in wider social and cultural processes.
Given the wide international breadth of artists on the programme and the open range of media welcomed in it, a primary concern in discussion is how a particular artist's work and ideas are understood in and across different social, artistic and intellectual contexts.
Our primary emphasis is on how artists look to shift prevalent expectations and whether their work does so – perhaps then transforming what art might be. We place a strong emphasis on student-centred learning, particularly in the studio seminars and personal tutorials based on your art-making, its key concerns and ideas and their mutual interdevelopment. A lecture programme will, in addition, contribute to your understanding of concerns relating to contemporary art in broader contexts.