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Study Details: 15 months (full time)
MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts is designed to enhance the making, criticality and articulation of your practice. It aims to expand the contextual reach of your works and the audiences for them. The course encourages experimental studio practice and individual inquiry at a professional level.
Throughout the course, you will challenge what art is or could be, how art is communicated or exhibited, and consider how to develop a future-facing, culturally progressive fine art practice. You’ll undertake research to critically explore the local, national and international contexts within which art operates. Developing this contextual awareness will ensure you build a sustainable, audience-aware practice that engages with culturally relevant concerns.
MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts is specifically developed to facilitate your progression to professional practice and employability throughout the course. You will continually develop your practice and demonstrate your learning and progress by initiating, participating in, and accomplishing audience-facing outcomes and events.
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The course develops students’ potential to operate as professional practitioners within an international art community, or to progress to further academic research at PhD level.
Many students go on to set up their own studio practice, developing strong professional links with galleries, critics, and curators. Many Chelsea MA Fine Art alumni are practicing artists working at national and international level.
Due to the course’s interdisciplinary practical approach, many graduates have expanded or multi-platform careers in related fields such as curating, arts management, art dealing, arts advisory services, theatre, film, broadcasting, music, fashion, education, events management, online media, writing and publishing.
Graduates from Chelsea's MA Fine Art course include Turner Prize winning artists and nominees Helen Chadwick, Peter Doig, Anish Kapoor, Mike Nelson, Mariella Neudecker, Andreas Oelhert, Stephen Pippin, Kimio Tsuchiya, Mark Wallinger and Rebecca Warren.
Other alumni, who are now established practitioners, include Keith Coventry, Nicky Hoberman, Morag Keil, Julie Lomax, Haroon Mirza and Saskia Olde Wolbers.
Find out how careers and employability helps our students and graduates start their careers.
This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University. You’ll develop your own practice and ideas while continually making work in a professional context for a public audience. You’ll work collaboratively on exhibitions and events with other students and partner organisations.
Off-site activities will include field trips and introductions to London’s emerging art scene. Additionally, you’ll explore ideas, contexts and critical dialogues that surround and inform contemporary art practice. As part of the unit, You'll produce a Research Portfolio that documents your artwork and critically locates this artwork within contemporary cultural contexts.
This unit is designed to help you refine your ideas and how to articulate them to different audiences. Discussion forums will help you position your ideas within contemporary dialogues and debates. Consultancies with visiting guests will give you a chance to get professional feedback on your practice and development.
A series of professional development workshops will help you with communication of your work, exhibition strategies and project management. You’ll take part in and organise projects with other students and external partners and present work in a variety of exhibition and event formats.
Continuing from Unit 1, you will produce a further refined Research Portfolio that documents your artwork and critically locates this artwork within contemporary cultural contexts. You’ll also submit a proposal that outlines how you plan to progress your professional practice during the unit 3.
Unit 3 is about progressing your career ambitions and will take place largely off-campus. You’ll be assigned and supported by an advisor, who is an arts professional. You’ll research how you might activate your practice within an external context that you have chosen and identified as appropriate to your development.
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