MFA Fine Art

Kingston School of Art invites applications for admission to its Fine Art MFA starting in September 2023. The course is a full time, two-year, studio-based programme.

The MFA in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art offers a unique blend of studio and theoretical training. While on the programme, you will develop your practice as an artist while critically reflecting on and locating that practice within a changing social, political and cultural context. You 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 cutting-edge workshops.

Through a student-centred approach to teaching and learning you 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, seminars and studio tutorials will connect you to a network of artists, curators, writers and gallerists as you explore what it means to make art in the 21st century.

Joint course leaders: Roman Vasseur and Dan Kidner.

Current teaching staff include: Frances Drayson, Eliel Jones, Elizabeth Price, Mike Nelson, Peter Osborne, Morgan Quaintance.

Recent teaching staff, guest lecturers and speakers include: Ghislaine Leung, Rosalind Nashashibi, Penny Goring, Rachel Jones, Adam Farah, Chris McCormack, Helen Cammock, Rózsa Farkas, Mandy El-Sayegh, Prem Sahib, Ben Rivers, P. Staff, Zoé Whitley, Amalia Pica, Abbas Zahedi, Sin Wai Kin.

For further information, contact joint course leader Roman Vasseur: r.vasseur [at] kingston.ac.uk

Kingston School of Art fosters an environment of excellence in contemporary creative practice through the newly established Centre for Practice Research in the Arts and the Contemporary Art Research Group, which build on the school’s recent successes in the Research Excellence Framework. The school is located a 20-minute train journey from the heart of London on a campus that includes the Stanley Picker Gallery and the newly rebuilt extension designed by architects Haworth Tompkins. The School of Art includes departments of architecture, film, photography, fashion and product design. The school is part of Kingston University whose sites include the Town House, a building designed by the RIBA Gold Medal-winning Grafton Architects, and the Visconti Music Studio at Kingston Hill. The school works closely with galleries, museums and institutions in London including the ICA, BFI, LUX, and Chisenhale Gallery.

The deadline for autumn 2023 entry is August 18. Enrolment is September 18, 2023. Application guidelines.