In the video below, students, teachers and the head of the department tell you more about the Master Artistic Research programme:

This two-year programme is open to artists who understand their art practice as an investigation and wish to develop this. Our staff are all engaged researchers and new students will join a community that is alert to contemporary urgencies.

The programme is designed as a single educational arc that spans two years of study. During this time, students are exposed to new working methods and ways of thinking. We prioritise experimental aesthetic approaches and support both individual and collaborative creativity. Students learn to refine the questions within their work and to better analyze the outcomes. They graduate with an enriched understanding of their practice and what fuels it because they have developed heightened investigative and reflective mind-sets and are more able to engage with complexity. They also learn to position themselves better within the cultural field and so maintain their practices into the future.

The MA is constructed as a matrix of practical and theoretical research: of finding out, making, critiquing, experimenting, and writing up. Our teaching staff primarily support individual studio practice and theoretical development, group critique classes and reading group. Students address their core questions through artistic work and in the analytic form of a written thesis. Guest lectures, Research Day programmes, exhibitions, collaborative book projects and excursions weave through this and connect individual study to societal conversations and concerns. Our integrated approach to this learning matrix tests the boundaries between thinking, making, writing, and sharing and often produces surprising outcomes. Reflection on these will come from your teaching team, student peer group, and visiting specialists.

We are a small department built on trust and care. We place value in peer-learning and collaboration. Our focus on a searching and re-searching approach means we are open to all disciplines and are respectful of your disciplinary choice. The programme is taught in English.