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  • The School of Fine Art encourages strong collaborations between the four art programmes, fostering research initiatives in the field and envisioning new directions, particularly in moving image and performance. The RCA, with its broad range of disciplines and unique workshops, is perfectly suited for those interested in sharing knowledge and hands-on skills across disciplines.

  • The School of Fine Art comprises four programmes that are defined by subject: Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture, as well as two new routes: Moving Image and Performance. Each programme aims to engage with the specific discourse of the discipline its practices, histories and theories; proposes an in-depth study as well as an ongoing questioning of its defining boundaries; and aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary practices and experimentation. The postgraduate level and status of the RCA in art and design education means theCollege is able to attract highly talented students from around the globe, from diverse backgrounds with a broad range of ideas, opinions, ambitions and skills. This plurality is welcomed across the College and is fully reflected in the School of Fine Art. The School has an overarching role, encouraging and enabling students to engage with issues and practices that run across fine art. It convenes talks by artists, critics and cultural producers, providing an exciting climate of cross-disciplinary debate and information on contemporary cultural themes and issues. The School of Fine Art also includes the Moving Image Studio, which provides academic and production support for students within the four programmes and those on the Moving Image and Performance

    Routes. The Drawing Studio offers College-wide workshops and lectures. Fine Art visiting professors and tutors reach out to students in all Fine Art programmes, and have recentlyincluded internationally acclaimed and renowned artists and theoreticians such as Yinka Shonibare, Joan Jonas and Alexander Garca Dttmann. A newly established School-wide lecture series addresses modes of contemporary artistic production.

    Staff Programme staff consist of highly regardedpractitioners who ensure that practical application is relevant and who are academically qualified to provide a critical context for the discipline. For further information on staff, including research interests, exhibitions and publications, please visit rca.ac.uk/staff

    Applications are welcomed from Graduates with a good BA degree in fine art or a related subject recent applicants have backgrounds in printmaking, painting, sculpture, photo media, conservation, illustration, design, textiles, architecture and interactive arts. Those able to demonstrate an original and critical approach to their work, as well as an ability to engage with current theories of art

    and culture, to question received modes of production and frameworks, and metabolise academic, social and philosophical encounters. For College-wide and programme-specificrequirements, please see rca.ac.uk/entrance-requirements

    AlumniThe Royal College of Art is rightly proud of its graduates achievements. Alumni from the RCA form part of an international network of creative individuals who have shaped and continue to shape the culture surrounding allof us from the landscape of our cities to the furniture and appliances in our homes, and from the clothes we wear and the films we watch to the work we experience in galleries. Well-known Fine Art include:Frank Auerbach, Christiane Baumgartner,Peter Blake, Victor Burgin, Jake Chapman, Tony Cragg, Dexter Dalwood, Adam Dant, Richard Deacon, Tracey Emin, Ori Gersht, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Tom Hunter, Idris Khan, Henry Moore, Tim Noble, Chris Ofili, Marilne Oliver, Chris Orr, Bridget Riley, Hannah Starkey, Gavin Turk, Nick Waplington, Richard Wentworth, Carey Young.

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  • Painting Drive (detail), Max Ruf, Oil on linen, 2013

  • Led by Professor David Rayson, the Painting programme is world-renowed in research and practice, with a commitment to broadening the understanding of our discipline in all its forms. Paint is a fluid material and ideas surrounding what painting is, has been and can be are being continually reflected upon, and actively explored. Through the many learning and teaching experiences the pro-gramme offers, students and staff rigorously, critically and supportively engage in personal tutorials, group seminars and pres-entations. These discussions and critiques take place in the Painting studios, across the College, in galleries and other partner institutions, and during visits to major exhibitions both in this country and abroad. On graduation a selection of students are awarded studio residences, which the College supports through a mentoring scheme. Our students are here to reflect upon and play out what kind of artists they want to be what their personal agendas are and this becomes a sustainable and meaningful practice on graduation. With each new year group the dynamic of the studios and the conversations around painting shift and broaden in their agendas and processes. A walk through the Sackler Building in Battersea is a journey through all the possibilities of thinking and making, where artists work through fleeting successes, essential wrong moves and hard-won moments of elation.

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    Led by Professor Olivier Richon, the Photography programme at theRCA aims to provide a critical and educational environment in which students can develop as artists with photography at the core of theirpractice. Our approach to photography relates to practices and theories of contemporary art, rather than to media and communication programmes. We have a fluid approach to image making. Whether still or moving, analogue or digital, the photographic image is for us a visual form that aims to be thoughtful as well as playful: an allegorical and thoroughly visual form. The programme understands photography as a medium with no fixed identity. This disregard for a fixed essence is photographys strength: no aesthetic purity but a multiplicity of rhetorical forms used for the creation of fact, fiction and fantasy. Equally the boundary between the still and the moving image is now fluid and porous, enabling new forms of image making to be created. We therefore also welcome applicants who work with film, video and installation. An informed practice of photography acknowledges the hetero-geneous traditions of fine art and visual culture. It also engages with practices of reading and writing about the image. Here, theory and practice inform each other and this dialogue characterises committed study at postgraduate level. The Photography programme occupies new, purpose-built studio space at the RCAs Battersea campus, alongside the three other School of Fine Art programmes.

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    Painting Photography

  • Photography Passion Flower (detail), Claire Bottomley, C-type print, 2013

  • Printmaking Albatross (installation view), Catriona Leahy, 2013

  • Printmaking Sculpture

    Led by artist Professor Jo Stockham, the Printmaking programme prides itself on the diversity of its student intake and its commitment to supporting each student in the search for a visual language appropriate to their interests and desires. We offer two-year, full-time or three-year, part-time study in the use and abuse of print within fine art practices. Purpose-built workshops at the Battersea campus offer interna-tionally renowned facilities covering all the major print mediums, including relief and intaglio, screen-printing, lithography and large-format digital printing and scanning. Printmaking students receive inductions into most print processes from skilled specialist technical instructors. Many create multiples, artists books, site-specific work, moving image and performances that frequently make use of archives, appropriation and the rich histories of printed matter which encompass both text and image. Each student develops their individual work alongside a critical discourse fostered by a diverse team of practising artists, critics and writers and centred around the ever-shifting nature of images, their distribution and production. The seminar programme, gallery visits, visiting lecturers and the wider context of the School of Fine Art, the RCA as a whole and the diversity of London as a city all contribute to the experience of study. Students from the programme benefit from many opportunities for extending their practice, including teaching placements, publishing projects, external and College-based exhibitions, overseas travel and international exchanges. An annual publishing project and a programme-specific publication equip all students with an understanding of editioning and book production.

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    The Sculpture programme, led by Jordan Baseman, enjoys a long and successful history. The RCA played a major role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s: it was at the RCA that Henry Moore first developed his working confidence. A spatial art, sculpture is intensely practical, yet essentially philosophical. As a discipline, it has always been closely associated with architecture and public space, with ritual and the ceremonial, and has involved itself in the discourse of form-making. As social, political and economic circumstances have changed over time, so has the debate. The Sculpture programme offers associations with a broad constituency of artists, architects, designers and thinkers across the RCA as well as engagement with historical and contemporary means of production across different cultures. Along with a dedicated studio space, each student has access to College-wide workshop facilities, including the RCAs celebrated foundry housed in the Sculpture Building, and the adjacent Moving Image Studio. The programme welcomes approaches from people of diverse backgrounds and experience, and the discourse will continue to embrace performance, theatre, film and urbanism as much as any historical fine art practices.

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  • Sculpture Sculpture Foundry

  • Moving Image and Performance Ball Breaker, Echo Morgan (MA Printmaking)

  • The School of Fine Art has established two new routes, in Moving Image and in Performance, formalising a long-standing strength and presence at the RCA. We are interested in building a diverse yetcollaborative cohort of practitioners who are working across disciplines and languages broadly interpreted as artists moving image or performance but including choreography, dance to film, work made livewith body or sound as well as fiction-led and documentary-based work. Prospective MA and Research students apply through the four existing Fine Art programmes Painting, Photography, Printmaking or Sculpture but are based in their own specialist work area in the Battersea campus. The Moving Image route is led by Stuart Croft, and the Performance route is led by Nigel Rolfe. Students on both routes have access to the Moving Image Studio (MIS) in Battersea, a teaching and production centre for film and video in the School of Fine Art.

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    Moving Image and Performance Routes

  • Research Study for Salad Dressing and an Artichoke, Lee Triming (PhD Painting), 2013

  • School Research Leader Dr Trish LyonsSenior Research Professor Richard Wentworth The School of Fine Art is invested in art research as a method of enquiry. Staff and students undertake research through studio practice and critical discourse under a number of themes: Painting Post-medium, Socio-political Art Practice, Image & Language, Collisions in Print & Digital Practice, Drawing & Recording, Foundry Research and Critical Spatial Practice. This all contributes to a dynamic art research culture. Research is explored in seminars, symposia and exhibitions, and conducted at individual and group level. Staff and student research is supported by world-class facilities including a full range of well-equipped moving image, performance, computing, photography, printmaking and sculpture workshops, all staffed by highly skilled technicians. The School of Fine Art contributes to the Image & Language research hub (imageandlanguage.rca.ac.uk), which has organised symposia and publications, with invited speakers including Jean-Luc Nancy, Marina Warner and Hito Steyerl. Recently, Joan Jonas was our Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor in Performance through the spring term of 2013. A dedicated research space in Testbed at the Battersea campus supports a stimulating environment for peer-to-peer meetings and includes study spaces, a seminar/screening room.

    Research Students MPhil and PhDThe School of Fine Art specialises in practice-based MPhil and PhDs. Research students are based within one of the four programmes and follow their own course of study, which is developed in a proposal under the guidance of a research supervisor. Fine Art Research faculty supervisors include; Margarita Gluzberg, Ian Kiaer, Yve Lomax, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Tim ORiley and Francette Pacteau. Researchersare expected to produce a coherent and original body of work that combines reflexive art practice with conceptual rigour. Your research will be self-motivated and independent, enhanced by the following support: regular tutorials with your supervisor, who will be a practising artist from our faculty a Fine Art Research Programme of bi-monthly seminars offering a discursive platform including exhibitions and creative writing workshops guest lectures financial assistance to support the attendance of conferences and for student-run research initiatives a weekly cross-College Research Methods Course 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.For further details and application procedures please contact [email protected], with Fine Art Research Proposal Guidance in the subject line of your email.

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    Research in the School of Fine Art

  • Wolfson Printmaking Hall, Dyson Building, (Photograph: Richard Haughton) 2013

  • Facilities

    All four Fine Art programmes are housed in purpose-built accommodation at the Battersea campus. As well as individual studio and workshop space, the new Dyson Building offers a street-front 250sqm gallery and a 225-seat lecture theatre. The Moving Image Studio an academic and technical facility providing students with an equipped film and video studio, a series of self-contained editing suites, equipment loans, a technical teaching area and a tutorial space is also located in Battersea and led by tutor Stuart Croft. Part of the Fine Art computer cluster is based in the Sculpture Building. Facilities in other Schools are available by arrangement, and students are encouraged to use College-wide facilities, including the Drawing Studio and the RCA library, located in Kensington.

    Painting custom-built studio space for each student large seminar room for group and individual presentations workshop for stretcher, panel and frame-making workshop with bench and hand tools for woodworking and light fabrication digital cameras, computing facilities, data, slide and overhead projectors, DVD/Blu-ray/ video players, TV/flatscreen monitors, audio equipment for sound performances, etc

    Photography custom-built shared studio space and workrooms photography studios for daylight and artificial light a range of lenses and analogue cameras from 35mm to 10 x 8 high-resolution film scanners digital imaging cameras for still and moving image darkrooms for exhibition-size colour and black-and-white prints, analogue and digital processing of colour negatives and black-and-white film large-format colour printers

    Printmaking dedicated work space for each full-time student well-equipped workshops for plate and stone lithography, intaglio, relief and screen-printing large-format digital printers, scanners and computers, giving students access to a wide range of digital media bookable space to experiment with large-scale work and installation archive of prints by past students, guest artists and staff used for inductions and collaborative seminars with students from the CWA&D programme

    data, slide, video and overhead projectors, as well as digital cameras

    Sculpture large, lofty and adaptable building, serving both as pragmatic workshops/studios and as open, airy exhibition spaces well-equipped workshops for metal and wood equipment for welding and a foundry for casting in bronze, aluminium and other metals spray booth with dedicated extraction small ceramic kiln project space available for students to book

    AdmissionsRoyal College of ArtKensington GoreLondon SW7 [email protected]+44 (0)20 7590 4444rca.ac.uk

    [email protected] more information about the School please go to rca.ac.uk/school-of-fine-art

  • PaintingPhotographyPrintmaking Sculpture