University of Reading Department of Art
1 Earley Gate
Whiteknights Road
Reading RG6 6AT
UK
Established in 1966 as the first MFA in the UK, this two-year programme brings together students from a diverse range of nationalities, backgrounds and experience.
The programme includes supervision of independent studio practice aligned with modules addressing artistic-research and contemporary art theory. A dynamic team of international artists, writers and curators will teach you. Our research-led teaching engages you in weekly seminars and tutorials, hosting visiting artists lectures, staging exhibitions and events that provide you with the critical resources to navigate current debates within contemporary art.
As an MFA student you will find yourself part of an energetic postgraduate community. We pride ourselves on the quality and vibrancy of our 24-hour studio community. Our large studios, workshops and facilities support you in realizing ambitious projects, while our student-run gallery affords you opportunities to curate and exhibit. Our postgraduate environment extends out from the University with exhibition and studio visits to London and Oxford and our associate partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, gives you membership for events and internship opportunities. Our postgraduate teaching assistance scheme provides teaching experience and mentoring for masters students interested in teaching, museum and gallery education.
Giving you the time and expertise to develop the MFA will prepare you for the professional world of the artist, to pursue a career in the cultural industries or to continue further research at doctoral level.
Visit our website for entry requirements and how to apply.
MA Creative Enterprise—Art
MA Creative Enterprise is ideal for artists and curators seeking entrepreneurial education in the business of art. Combine modules in management and entrepreneurship with a selection of modules in Critical Art Practice, Mapping the Art World, embark on an International Study Visit and explore Art, Power and Politics.
MA Creative Enterprise is a unique collaboration between the School of Arts and Communication Design Henley Business School and the School of Law. The specialist pathway in Art allows graduates with an art specialism the opportunity to develop and enhance their practice-based, technical and critical skills in art—strengthening their credentials as artists or curators. The programme develops your individual practice and research while the shared business modules integrates understanding of entrepreneurship and management in the context of the creative industries.
The degree is designed to equip graduates from a range of subject backgrounds with the knowledge and skills to embark on a career as a creative, entrepreneur or manager within the creative sector.
Visit our website for entry requirements and how to apply.
PhD Research Platform in Curating
This practice-based PhD provides an international environment for cross-disciplinary research in curatorial and artistic practice. This unique programme is a co-operation between Art at Reading and Zurich University for the Arts under the directorship of Dorothee Richter and Susanne Clausen.
This PhD programme specializes in offering established curators, artists and critics the critical framework to focus on specific curatorial and cultural research. The programme aims to address and question the significant changes affecting cultural production, articulation and mediation. Through research seminars and public symposia it provides an environment for you to develop your research, critically reflect and transform your own position as producer, agent, artist, archivist and curator.
You are enrolled for the three years of the PhD within Art Reading and you will take part in seminars and presentations in Zurich, Reading and London. You will develop and realise your project supported by the academic faculty, artistic supervisors and co-participants.
Art at Reading’s Associate Partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art, London provides free membership for all students.
Faculty: Kate Allen, Susanne Clausen, Christine Ellison, Rachel Garfield, Robert Garnett, Ciara Healy, James Hellings, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Tina O’Connell, Tim Renshaw, Alun Rowlands, John Russell
Further information: [email protected]
