MFA Fine Art

The MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths is now open for applications for 2025. 

With an international reputation for excellence, our program is designed to support emerging artists become articulate, confident, critically aware and self-motivated artists.

Your ambitions and interests will grow on our programme, we expect you to challenge and change your practice. You will want to try out new media, new ideas, and review how you position yourself as an artist. We will support you to make these changes and facilitate the transformation of your practice.

Artists on our programme work across media, engaging in demanding peer-to-peer learning with a strong emphasis on full and open discussion. Our curriculum is built around Group Crits and one-to-one tutorials. Critical Studies builds your understanding of the context and positioning of your practice. You’ll have access to state-of-the-art workshops and labs with expert tutors to help you realise your projects. Production facilities, from Graphics & Time-Based Media and 3D printing to Constructed Textiles, Photography and Moving Image Capture, Ceramics, Woodwork, Metal and Casting, Print & Dye, Fine Art Print, Stitch & Fabric.

Permanent staff include Maeve Brennan, John Chilver, Sonya Dyer, Ayesha Hameed, Andy Harper, Amy Ireland, Hannah Catherine Jones, Suhail Malik, Simon Martin, Sadie Murdoch, Michael Newman, Ash Reid, Ben Seymour, Jemima Stehli, Chooc Ly Tan, Becca Voelcker and Rehana Zaman.

In-house teaching is complemented by visiting artists, writers and thinkers chosen by the students themselves. In recent years, visiting tutors have included: Ed Atkins, Karen Archey, Alvaro Barrington, Hannah Black, Glenn Brown, Nicolas Bourriaud, Moyra Davey, Jesse Darling, Cecile B Evans, Simon Fujiwara, Anthea Hamilton, Leila Hekmat, Fatima Hellberg, Vincent Honore, Ingela Ihrman, Sophie Jung, Mark Leckey, Basim Magdi, Diego Marcon, Renzo Martens, Metahaven, Katrina Palmer, Gala Porras- Kim, Laure Prouvost, Tai Shani, Daniel Sinsel, Dima Srouji, Guo Xiaolu, Nicole Wermers  and Peng Zuqiang amongst many others.

The MFA Fine Art inhabits a dedicated spacious studio complex in Deptford, one of London’s most vibrant and interesting areas for emerging art, music and design. The studios are a short walk from the Goldsmiths campus at New Cross. We also provide projects spaces and encourage you to develop your own exhibitions both in the College and outside of it.

For further information about applying please contact the MFA Fine Art Admissions Officer Dr John Chilver.