Escolar Documentos
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of Fine Art
2014 / 15
Routes. The Drawing Studio offers Collegewide workshops and lectures. Fine Art visiting
professors and tutors reach out to students
in all Fine Art programmes, and have recently
included 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 regarded
practitioners 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
Painting
Photography
Led by Professor David Rayson, the Painting programme is worldrenowed 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 programme offers, students and staff rigorously, critically and
supportively engage in personal tutorials, group seminars and presentations. 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.
painting@rca.ac.uk
rca.ac.uk/painting
photography@rca.ac.uk
rca.ac.uk/photography
Printmaking
Sculpture
printmaking@rca.ac.uk
rca.ac.uk/printmaking
sculpture@rca.ac.uk
rca.ac.uk/sculpture
Moving Image and Performance Ball Breaker, Echo Morgan (MA Printmaking)
Research Study for Salad Dressing and an Artichoke, Lee Triming (PhD Painting), 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
Admissions
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
admissions@rca.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7590 4444
rca.ac.uk
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
School
school-of-fine-art@rca.ac.uk
For more information about the School
please go to
rca.ac.uk/school-of-fine-art
Painting
Photography
Printmaking
Sculpture