Fine Art | City & Guilds of London Art School

Course summary

The Course runs from September to September, twelve months for full-time students and over two years for part-time students. Full-time students are based in large well lit studio spaces in the Art School, opposite Kennington tube station, while part-time students are expected to have their own studio base with access to our workshops and other facilities. Part-time students are allocated summer studio spaces in their final year leading up to the MA shows when the final module is taken at a full-time pace. They may also be able to work in studios at the Art School at the end of their first year.

DEVELOP AND REFINE YOUR PRACTICE

The main objective of the course is to both challenge and support you to identify, develop and refine your individual practice. Evaluation and review through group and individual discussion with a wide range of tutors enables you to identify critical models and areas of research appropriate to your work. The course comprises three main areas of activity; studio practice, professional practice and critical aesthetics.

STUDIO TEACHING
Studio teaching focuses on contextualisation, process into practice and realisation. Tutorials, group critiques and both peer and tutor led events and sessions sets out to equip you with the practical and theoretical knowledge and experiences necessary for the development of an ambitious body of work, concluding in a public exhibition.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Professional Practice workshops, visits and seminars delivered by artists, critics, gallerists and other art world professionals will help you to critique approaches and construct your own strategies for professional practice to sustain your art practice in the future.

CRITICAL AESTHETICS
Critical Aesthetics Seminars run alongside studio discussion and consider historic precedents and contemporary practices, theories and debates, supporting you to develop a framework for your research that will form the basis for the Critical Model Dissertation that explores key themes related to your practice. You will be supported by a personal dissertation supervisor, a member of the Art Histories team on of our experts.

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GRANTS AND FINANCIAL AWARDS

We have a number of bursaries and grants available, to which applicants who have received an offer from us may be eligible to apply. And we are now able to offer a limited number of grants to support international students, including students from the EU, who would not otherwise have the means to study at the Art School. Applications for all grants and financial assistance are assessed on financial need and suitability. For queries relating to financial award applications, please contact: admin@cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk

We are committed to widening participation in higher education and offering opportunities to study on our specialist courses. Alongside the Art School’s own grants, a number of organisations and individuals support our students through a range of grants and financial assistance. This is in recognition of our deserved reputation for excellence, our commitment to providing high levels of contact time with active professionals and our championing of specialist subjects.