SCHOOL OF FINE ART 2017/18 ‘This is an exciting time for the school, with our new programme in Contemporary Art Practice extending our range and enabling us to remain at the forefront of debates and discussions in the broad and ever-expanding field of Fine Art. As the largest and most international concentration of postgraduate Fine Art students, researchers and academics in the world, the School of Fine Art at the RCA is the key international point of reference for anyone trying to understand what Fine Art is about today.’

Juan Cruz is an artist and writer with a Professor Cruz is a member of the Tate long-standing commitment to Fine Art Liverpool Council, and a trustee of the education. Prior to joining the RCA in Liverpool Biennale and the John Moores 2014, Professor Cruz was Director of Painting Prize. His work as an artist is Liverpool School of Art & Design, and represented by Matt’s Gallery, London, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of and Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid.

Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Juan Cruz Dean of School Professor issues thatare successfully articulatedby art. have used, aswell asthesubjects, ideas and methods andmaterialsthatartists use and which artismade–thericharray of positions, We are committed toexamining themeans by rca.ac.uk/ interests, exhibitions andpublications, please visit: For furtherinformation onstaff, includingresearch qualified to provide acritical context for their work. and active practitioners, whoare also academically Staff — expanded range of perspectives. linguistics helpingusto lookatourwork from an fields includingeconomics, sociology, politics and curators, critics andtheorists from arange of might hold, withrenowned artists, writers, contemporary context andof whatthefuture will seek to defineanunderstanding of boththe work takes place. as theoverarching subjectwithinwhichallour specific disciplines, the School identifies Fine Art While supportingtheresearch andstudy of Our School-wide lectures andworkshops Students are taughtby highly regarded staff Richard Wentworth andCarey Young. Hannah Starkey, Gavin Turk, Nick Waplington, Marilène Oliver, ChrisOrr, Bridget Riley, Idris Khan, Moore, Henry Tim Noble, ChrisOfili, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Tom Hunter, Richard Deacon, Tracey Emin, Ori Gersht, Tony Cragg, Dexter Dalwood, Adam Dant, Peter Blake, Victor Burgin, Jake Chapman, Frank Auerbach, Christiane Baumgartner, and continue to shapeourculture. network of creative individualswhohave shaped Alumni from theRCA form part of aninternational proud of its graduates’ achievements. Alumni — rca.ac.uk/ requirements, please see: culture. For College-wide andprogramme-specific ability to engage withcurrent theories of artand and critical approach to theirwork, aswell asan subject, whoare ableto demonstrate anoriginal with agood BA degree inFine Art orarelated Applications are welcomed from Well-known Fine Art alumniinclude: entrance-requirements The Royal College of Art isrightly

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School of Fine Art Contemporary Art Practice Led by Moving Image, led by Jane Wilson, is aimed Dr Mel Jordan, Reader in Art & the Public Sphere, at artists using film and video, and practitioners Contemporary Art Practice incorporates practices working in the areas of documentary film, film and that exceed the specificity of the well-established fiction cinema – practitioners who wish to draw disciplines at the Royal College of Art, facilitating upon, challenge and re-map established realms of students’ engagement with the histories, theories practice. The diversity of approaches employed in and expanded practices of Fine Art. Students will the pathway reflects the new reality of contemporary be committed to developing and foregrounding the moving image. conceptual and social ideas in their practice, while Performance, led by Professor Nigel Rolfe, engaging with appropriate material and technical happens in the ‘here and now’ and not the ‘there and concerns for making contemporary art now. then’. Unlike many practices, where time is historic, The programme is delivered through four and the image presented is necessarily an archive distinct pathways: Critical Practice, Moving or record, ‘being and doing’ are more immediately Image, Performance and Public Sphere, and your significant in live time, and the expectation is that – application should stipulate which pathway you in the contemporary – artists are often presenting wish to study. Critical Practice is delivered with work that is not made in advance but rather MA Critical Writing in Art & Design in the School of happening now. Humanities. Contemporary Art Practice students Public Sphere, led by Dr Mel Jordan, is a have access to all facilities within the School of Fine major research area in the School, and the pathway Art. The programme has specialist pathway leaders supports expanded engagement with art and its in order to facilitate a distinct engagement with publics as well as art’s social function. Social art specific areas of contemporary art practice. practices have featured as a key force in the rise Studio-based and focused on supporting the of the global biennale as well as being utilised by artistic practice of its students, Critical Practice, led the Occupy movement. Therefore questions about contemporary-art-practice by Jeremy Millar, offers regular seminars exploring public space, participation, collaboration and emerging ideas and bodies of theory as well as collective action are becoming essential principles opportunities to work with organised forms of within the production of contemporary art both in knowledge such as public archives and institutions. terms of practice and theory. [email protected] rca.ac.uk/ [email protected] rca.ac.uk/contemporary-art-practice

MA Contemporary Art Practice: Performance Pathway, Show 2016. Photograph by Richard Haughton Painting Led by Professor David Rayson, the Photography Led by Professor Olivier Richon, Painting programme is committed to broadening the Photography programme provides a critical and the understanding of the discipline in all its forms. educational environment in which students develop Paint is a fluid material and ideas surrounding as artists with photography at the core of their what painting is, has been and can be are being practice. Our approach to photography relates to continually reflected upon, and actively explored. practices and theories of contemporary art, rather Students and staff rigorously, critically and than media and communication. We have a fluid supportively engage in personal tutorials, group approach to image making; whether still or moving, critiques and presentations. These discussions and analogue or digital, the photographic image is for us critical forums take place in the Painting studios, a visual form that aims to be thoughtful as well as across the College, through visits to galleries and playful: an allegorical and thoroughly visual form. photography major exhibitions both in this country and abroad, The programme understands photography as and through collaborations with partner institutions. a medium with no fixed identity. This disregard for a Our students are here to reflect upon and fixed essence is photography’s strength: no aesthetic play out what kind of artist they want to be – how purity but a multiplicity of rhetorical forms used for [email protected] rca.ac.uk/ best to serve and challenge their personal agendas the creation of fact, fiction and fantasy. in relation to current discussions and developments Our students have developed ways of working within the scope of contemporary painting, and to address questions of narrative, signs and meaning. the broader cultural realm. The student experience Central is a fascination with the power of the image is supported by the Painting programme, the to disrupt language and reason, an iconophilia that

opportunities and events that are timetabled across celebrates the imaginary. For many, photography the School of Fine Art, and the Critical & Historical engages with the mind – an art of imaginary solutions. Studies schedule. An informed practice of photography The programme is designed and delivered to acknowledges the heterogeneous traditions of fine painting support our graduates in developing art practices art and visual culture. It also engages with practices that are sustainable and meaningful to each artist’s of reading and writing about the image. Here, theory particular ambitions and operate at the highest and practice inform each other and this dialogue levels of the contemporary art world. characterises committed study at postgraduate level. [email protected] rca.ac.uk/ [email protected] [email protected] rca.ac.uk/painting rca.ac.uk/photography

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MA Photography: Habitual Labour, Stephanie Jamieson publications andmultiples. We explore themediated in artandthemakingof prints, installations, encompassing bothprinted matter andarchives MA course thatsees Print asanexpanded field programme isatwo-year, full-timespecialist Print focus on digital/analogue relations. thinking andmaking, image andtechnology with a field addressing the constant interplay between means thatwe are ableto explore andexpand the to world-class technical facilities inallprintmedia of print, andprintasacollaborative practice. Access materiality of theimage, diagramming, thepolitics the nature of thecopy, collage, appropriation, the choose to study withusbecause of theirinterest in practising artists interested inpost-print debates. supported by adiverse team of tutors, whoare all image through arange of intellectual approaches Students from awidevariety of backgrounds Led by Professor Jo Stockham, thePrint encouraged. making work isaform of exchange are actively and archives. international galleries, printpublishers, workshops, part of thecourse. We are embeddedinanetwork of and professional practice placements are anintegral projects. Students take part inseveral exhibitions, interest reflected ininternational collaborative distribution andnarrative structure are agrowing Artists’ books andweb-based work asforms of Collaboration andresidency situationswhere

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MA Print: Interference, Mayra M Gonzinotti MA Sculpture: Gut Feelings, Holly Hendry MA Sculpture: Gut Feelings, Holly Hendry their own practice. Sculpture includes abroad range sculpture, where students are supported to develop material, historical andtheoretical conditions of establishes aframework thatencompasses the Jordan Baseman, theSculpture programme Sculpture from each location. anticipated andwe value the uniqueinsights brought The make-up of thisglobal cohort isalways keenly Ireland, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Spain andSweden. Colombia, Peru, The Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Switzerland, Austria, Chile, Australia, Poland, artists from China, USA, Japan, Taiwan, South and students. Our current student bodyincludes Most pertinentlythisisdemonstrated by ourstaff makes theidea of being ‘international’ paramount. subject of site, place andinteraction withlocations programme’s identity. The nature of Sculpture asa production of art. position asamethodologyfrom whichto progress the manifestations of sculpture –we prefer to thinkof our of approaches, but–rather thanconsider thespecific Internationalism isatthecore of the Led by Reader in Time-based Media become increasingly global, trulyinternational. juxtaposition of cultures. Our visionisto continue to we warmly encourage, allspringingupfrom this informal group shows andresidencies, these things professional development, asconversations turninto leads to lifelong friendships andauniquemomentof of students issomething we aimfor every year. This begins. While each year group isunique, thismixture learning anddiscussion before thefirst term even composition, to create exciting new potentials for itself, so inasense to dovetail withits own We aimto select astudent bodythatcomplements

[email protected] rca.ac.uk/sculpture Research: Fine Art Studios Research: Fine Art Studios and beyond, together withvisitingprofessors. These are ledby key researchers from theSchool Research programme and thematicSchool groups. methodologies through theSchool’s Fine Art students to arange of advanced practice-based MRes RCA Fine Art Pathway invented, borrowed andeven stolen. diverse methodsof research andproduction thatare fields anddisciplines; celebrating thedeployment of Fine Art asaccessible to collaboration withother photography, printmakingandsculpture. We conceive interests in moving image, painting, performance, School of Fine Art means we can supportresearch with academic staff. lectures,tutorials Visual Cultures lectures andregular research projects andhave access to weekly Fine Art Students are involved inlive and collaborative The broad base of expertise offered by the

introduces culture evolved through seminars, symposia and generate opportunities for artists intheworld. and its applications, whichseeks to understand and platform for debate andexperimentation aboutart of theSchool asacritically andsocially engaged every level of activity intheSchool. We conceive integrated research culture, andourwork informs broad context of artpractice. We operate an concerns of academics andstudents withinthe Research David Cunningham, Bar Vulkan andmany more Sennett, SuhailMalik, Marina Warner, Jonas Staal, and tutorials, withguests in2016 includingRichard symposia, publications andSchool-wide lectures all staffed by highlyskilledtechnicians. photography, printmakingandsculpture workshops, equipped moving image, performance, computing, world-class facilities includingafullrange of well- level. Staffandstudent research issupported by exhibitions, andconducted atindividual andgroup This allcontributes to adynamicartresearch The School organises research-focused intheSchool isdriven by theindividual .

Research in the School of Fine Art Research Students: MPhil and PhD The School of Fine Art Facilities Fine Art specialises in practice-based MPhils and Fine Art programmes provide all students with PhDs. Research students are registered at School studio and workshop space. The Moving Image level and follow their own course of study, under Studio provides students with an equipped film the guidance of a research supervisor. Supervisors and video studio, a series of self-contained editing include all heads of programme, and tutors and suites, equipment loans, a technical teaching area senior tutors including Margarita Gluzberg, Yve and a tutorial space. There are a number of bookable Lomax, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Tim O’Riley, Francette seminar and project spaces across the site available Pacteau, Aura Satz, John Slyce, Nigel Rolfe and to all Fine Art programmes and students. Nicky Coutts. Researchers are expected to produce a coherent and original body of work that combines Lens-based Media and Audio Resources – Facilities reflexive art practice with conceptual rigour. include a variety of photography, animation and Research will be self-motivated and independent, moving-image studios that provide filming, lighting enhanced by the following support: and sound workshops. – regular tutorials with your supervisor Painting and Sculpture – Materials workshops are – a programme of bi-monthly discursive seminars, provided, as well as a stretcher service and well- including exhibitions and creative writing workshops equipped metal and wood workshops. – guest lectures Printmaking – Etching, lithography, intaglio, – financial assistance to support attendance at screenprinting and letterpress areas, and a digital conferences and student-run research initiatives suite with large-format digital printing and a – a weekly cross-College Research Methods Course reprographics workshop. throughout the first year of study, supporting students in the development of their methodology – access to all specialist academic libraries and museum archives in London.

[email protected] rca.ac.uk/fine-art-research College-wide Facilities hot glass making, cold glass working, kiln forming, Access to a range of technical resources can be plaster model and mould making, plastic clay provided, and students are encouraged to use making, as well as clay and glaze development. College-wide facilities, including the Drawing Studio Jewellery & Metal – Processes available include and the RCA Library, located in Kensington. Some anodising, CAD/CAM-milling, computer modelling and facilities are subject to an induction and access is rapid prototyping, casting, electro-forming, enamelling, granted following an assessment of academic need. forging, tool making, patination, plating, presswork, spark erosion and laser, MIG and TIG welding. College Shop and Print Shop – These sell a Fashion – Facilities include access to a fabric variety of graphics and art supplies, wood and stockroom and specialist software within the acrylic, stationery and paper, and provide various College computing suite, as well as a wide variety of high-quality, large-format inkjet printing in colour, specialist sewing machinery, for both apparel and greyscale and black and white. footwear, as well as dummies and finishing presses. Digital Aided Making – These resources offer Raw Materials Workshop – The workshop provides subtractive manufacturing support for laser cutting, a cutting service for students and dispenses wood, CNC machining and plasma cutting. The varied plastics and metal sold through the College Shop and range of available CNC equipment includes 3 and free hire of a selection of power tools and ladders. 4 axis benchtop CNC and large-format 5 axis CNC Resource Stores – Free hire of lens-based media machines. Students are able to experience working and AV equipment. with a variety of materials including plastic, wood, Textiles – Provides access to a yarn store as well as metal and synthetic media. workshops supporting knitting and linking, digital 3D Workshops – Facilities include a wood knit, embroidery machines and mixed media, printed workshop, metal fabrication, engineering, a plastics and woven textiles. workshop and a resin, clay and moulding studio. A Smart Zone – The Smart Zones across the College spray booth is available for specialist paint finishes include training rooms and open-access computer and a number of bookable project and making areas. The technical workshops here showcase a spaces complete the facilities. variety of software and digital processes including

Ceramics & Glass – Facilities include areas for group and 1:1 sessions with technologists. Facilities Facilities: Sculpture Workshop. Photograph by Richard Haughton Facilities: Sculpture Workshop. Photograph by Richard Haughton

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