MFA in Fine Art

Priority application deadline: January 31 2025. The MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths is now open for applications for 2025.

Our program is designed to help emerging artists become articulate, confident, critically aware and self-motivated in their work.

As your artistic ambitions and interests grow during the programme, we expect you will change your practice. You will want to try out new media, new ideas, and also to review how you position yourself as an artist. We support you in this challenge by facilitating complete flexibility in what you will want to do next.

Artists on our programme work across media and interests, engaging in demanding peer-to-peer learning with a strong emphasis on full and open discussion. Our curriculum is built primarily around Group Crits and one-to-one tutorials. Critical Studies builds your understanding of the context and positioning of your practice.

Permanent staff include John Chilver, Ayesha Hameed, Andy Harper, David Mabb, Suhail Malik, Simon Martin, Sadie Murdoch, Michael Newman, Ash Reid, Ben Seymour, Jemima Stehli, Chooc Ly Tan, Becca Voelcker and Rehana Zaman.

Our in-house teaching is complemented by tutorials with 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 and projects both in the College and outside of it.

You’ll enjoy access to state-of-the-art workshops and labs with expert technicians. The Department of Art offers world-class art-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, a Pigment Garden and Allotment.

Department of Art postgraduate talks series from recent years are here.