Accepting Postgraduate Applications
UK
Applications are now open for our new suite of MA programmes, starting September 2025.
Postgraduate Study at UWE Bristol School of Arts
Our expansive MA programmes have been redesigned for 2025 to reflect Bristol’s creative ecology, enhance multi-disciplinary opportunities, and connect progressive practices across the arts. We invite aspiring innovators and creatives to join our growing community of postgraduate students pushing boundaries and defining new directions for their disciplines.
Respect the discipline
Our future-focused curriculum celebrates deep disciplinary understanding, paired with the conceptual agility creatives require to address urgent contemporary issues. Working iteratively with dedicated teams of technical expertise, alongside our world-class research groups, and under the guidance of practicing artists and designers, our students experience significant development in their practice, with opportunities to collaborate across borders, expanding their ambitions into new and exciting spaces.
A significant programme of opportunities and events, with industry collaborators and international arts partners including Arnolfini, Spike Island, Watershed, Aardman and the Martin Parr Foundation, is designed to create a cohesive, inclusive postgraduate community – where new connections continue to shape your career long after you graduate.
Further information
Animation MA / Designer Maker MA / Design Comms. Fashion Photography MA/ Design Comms. Illustration MA / Design Comms. Graphic Design MA / Filmmaking MA / Fine Art MA / Fine Art Curating MA / Fine Art Printmaking MA / Fine Art Photography MA.
Check our website, explore our student showcase, or contact Dr Will (will.grant@uwe.ac.uk) with any questions you may have.
We warmly invite you to experience our postgraduate community in person. Our City Campus will be open to visitors interested in postgraduate study on Saturday 7 June 2025, with full tours of facilities, and Programme Leaders available for discussion. Book your place.
UWE Bristol School of Art
The School stretches across our creative and cultural industries City Campus, which connects to major international arts centres across the city. We are a broad and inclusive School, with areas of excellence in the Interdisciplinary Arts, Screen Industries, Design and New Humanities. As a member of the College of Arts, Technology & the Environment, we share a mission to centre ecological sustainability and technological innovation in our teaching activity and celebrate the role the arts can play in confronting issues of social and climate injustice.
Just over an hour from London by train, and with an international airport close by, Bristol is very well connected. As the largest city in the Southwest, Bristol is celebrated as one of the biggest creative hotspots outside of London—an UNESCO City of Film, home to production companies, arts organisations, and a large, progressive community of artists and designers.
