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Applications airtight 2022/23

We are no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry to this course. Applications for 2023/24 entry will open in autumn 2022.

On BA Art at Central Saint Martins, we recognise the latitude of possibilities in contemporary art, and will challenge you lot to develop an experimental practice. You will work in one of 4 pathways – 2D, 3D, 4D or XD – which encompass studio practice, theoretical studies and personal and professional evolution. This course is role of the Art plan.

Why choose this grade at Cardinal Saint Martins

• Pathway structure: The pathway construction on BA Fine art creates a focus for sustained disquisitional engagement. Information technology allows you to both specialise and develop an interdisciplinary working practice.
• Exhibitions: The class offers experimental forms of exhibition-making. This occurs both inside the College and in public venues outside the institution. Previous external partners have included Archway Belfry, the British Library, Camden Arts Center, Camden Collective and the Tate.
• Location: BA Fine Art is situated in the Higher's Granary Building. This location in King's Cross is key, enabling students to engage in the changing dynamics of the area and build links with the local customs as well as neighbouring institutions such as Wellcome Drove and the British Library.
• Associate Studio Programme: Developed in 2011 out of a partnership between Acme and Double Agents – a inquiry projection based at Central Saint Martins – the Associate Studio Programme provides subsidised, low-price, high-quality studio space for twenty graduates of BA Fine art for ii years. The scheme also provides a programme of studio visits by artists, curators, writers and peers. Students are selected through an application process open to them in the year they graduate and again one yr later.

Former Form Leader Mick Finch talks about BA Fine Art

Caste Prove 2019: Matty Mancey

Degree Bear witness 2018: Carianne Annan

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  Manyi Takor, BA Fine Art (Photo: Peter Cattrell)

  The annual Big Walls and Windows project brings large-scale work by one BA Fine Art student into our public window galleries. We speak to first-year student Manyi Takor, and her approach to the commission.

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  NOVA 10 exhibition (photo: Andrea Capello)

  On evidence in the Lethaby Gallery and online, NOVA Ten explores the fragments of life that influence and inform creative practice. From a microscope to the humble Post-It, here we share the tools at the centre of our graduates' making.

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  Farida Eltigi, BA Graphic Communication Blueprint

  For the past two decades, the CSM Museum & Report Collection has actively purchased works from graduating students. This yr, the Deans' Awards supports the purchase of more piece of work than ever before equally the Museum welcomes 28 new pieces into its

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  NOVA X exhibition, Lethaby Gallery (photo: Andrea Capello)

  Celebrating a decade of honour-winning creative exercise, NOVA X shares the stories past winners of the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent.

Course overview

Welcome to the Art BA where you will develop the creative and critical skills to challenge prevailing artistic conventions. You and your contemporaries are the creative practitioners of the futurity and together we can question and remake the cultural mural of today.

BA Fine art at Key Saint Martins asks two core questions in relation to art; what is the site of production and what is the site of run across?

At CSM nosotros continually challenge what we think art is. Nosotros recognise the broad diverseness of social, political, cultural, economic and technological contexts in which contemporary fine art is made and exhibited. Working together, staff and students interrogate the multiple and varied means in which artists brand work and make work public.

The course is organised into four studios; 2d, 3D, 4D and XD. Each studio engages students with specific critical perspectives and technical inductions. You are encouraged to develop your work in relation to different forms of practise across any range of media. The studios embody an inter-disciplinary approach and this is reflected in the cantankerous-studio events that are structured throughout the course. We make in means that reverberate the total range of materials, technologies and discourses exploited past artists today.

Your studio volition provide you with an experimental space where discoveries can occur. For this to keep happening the studio has to be perpetually reinvented, operation as laboratory, performative site, social space and discursive environment. The notion of studio refers to any space for making and exploration. Artists always find new ways to make piece of work with different resources, finding new places to make piece of work that utilise innovative and established production processes. At CSM, the studios reverberate these trends. You volition work with staff to develop and model the studio appropriate to the needs of the group.

Experimental forms of exhibition-making take place within each stage of the course. Exhibitions happen both in the University and in public venues, in conventional and non-conventional physical and not-concrete spaces. Recent examples include, Camden Collective, Archway Tower, British Library, Camden Arts Centre, performances within the Tate Turbine Hall and Tate Exchange, Arts Media Islington School and Crumbles Activity Playground.

Students tin besides opt to take the year-long Diploma in Professional Studies between Stages 2 and 3, offering highly focused and personalised work placements which assist them develop enhanced communication, networking, and organisational skills. In recent years, students have had placements at Tate Modern, The Purple Festival Hall, professional artist studios and the National Theatre.

Nosotros embrace the rapidly changing and broad contexts of the fine art-wold. Our intention is to radically question, challenge, disrupt and provoke to create answers to fine art futures and future art practices.

Class units

BA Fine Art integrates studio practise, Critical Studies and Professional Development through teaching both inside the Studio construction and across the year group at key moments. Students are allocated to a Studio through a diagnostic process at the start of the grade however pathway transfer is possible.

Each Studio has a singled-out civilization that is orientated around item discussions, themes and resource. As the student progresses through the course, the human relationship between the Studios is progressively porous. We encourage students to accept a fluid and flexible approach to their use of media and understanding of artistic subject area.

The Studios

The way we work and create starts with exploration speculation and enquiry and this takes place through materials, processes of making, dialogue and criticality. Theory and practice are understood in relation to one another, integrating both studio and contextual studies contexts.

second explores how making is informed by contemporary culture, politics and social forms as much as by questions of the image and abstraction. It considers the screen, the picture plane and surface as fundamental aspects of visual product. Technical inductions are positioned in terms of these questions. In the studio, we discuss how diverse disciplines, practices and forms of thought can be mixed.

3D explores matter, scale, product, material and immaterial form in relation to place and audition. Students are inducted into a range of traditional and new 3D technologies, and to the debates surrounding hybrid production processes. The studio is a place where the reading, writing and creation of spaces can take identify and exist questioned. 3D challenges a conventional understanding of the studio, the exhibition and institutional spaces.

4D explores time-based, durational performative and interdisciplinary practices. Critical and philosophical positions are explored in relation to exercise and current ideas such equally the post- medium condition, the apparatus of technology and temporality are considered. The Studio is experimental in approach and explores how this might challenge conventions of practice. In this context, the 'open up piece of work' is engaged every bit a site where collaboration and production take place.

XD explores the possibilities of not only 'what does art mean?' but also 'what tin fine art do?' and 'where can art exist?' The implications of working beyond dissimilar sites and placing art in particular situations and communities questions the rights and responsibilities of the artist in relation to audiences and the environment. The studio is considered as a laboratory where ideas for interventions in the practise of everyday life can exist generated.

Phase ane

Unit i: What and Where is an Art School? (Introduction to Written report in College Didactics)
Unit of measurement 2: What is a Studio?
Unit of measurement 3: What is Practice?
Unit 4: What is an Exhibition?

Phase 1 asks you to consider; Where do we brand work and what is practice?

Starting with an introduction to Art School in which you will exist guided through the various instruction methods and events deployed on the course. You lot will experience learning through each other, staff practice, staff networks, tutorials, lectures, disquisitional discussion, seminars and self-directed study. Through this, you volition actively shape and inform the pedagogy environment of the form.

The nature of the studio shifts in relation to what the studio community choose to practice with information technology. You lot volition be inducted to a wide range of workshops. Studio and Disquisitional Studies staff will support you in starting time to identify interests and concerns that will attend your practice as an creative person.

By the cease of Stage 1 y'all will have established means of making in the studio appropriate to your interests. With the back up of tutors, you will be able to confidently self-direct the development of your own piece of work.

Stage 2

Unit v: How Do We Brand?
Unit of measurement vi: How Do We Retrieve?
Unit 7: How Tin We Write?
Unit 8: How is Piece of work Encountered?
Unit 9: Artistic Unions: Socially Engaged Practices for an Ethical World

Phase two is nigh how nosotros brand work public.

Yous will continue to establish and develop your practise with an added emphasis on how and where to exhibit your piece of work.

The year-group will have the opportunity to nowadays work inside the university in a number of cross programme curated exhibitions and in 2 open up studios where the art plan opens its doors to the general public. You will likewise select from a range of external projects designed to further question the many ways in which y'all might brand elements of your do public.

In Critical Studies you volition brainstorm to focus on concerns specific to your practice and kickoff to plant a habit of enquiry that straight supports your studio work, forms a part of information technology, and generates new ideas or thinking.

By the end of Stage 2, y'all will take identified a range of strategies for making your piece of work public and begun to contextualise your practise exploring how your piece of work might exist publicly encountered.

Phase iii

Unit 10: Are There Any Questions? (Dissertation)
Unit 11: What is Art?

Stage 3 is nearly how you extend your practice across CSM.

Stage 3 will requite you the tools to theoretically, culturally, politically and socially contextualise your work. You will exist supported to place strategies for establishing a sustainable do beyond the course and empowered to plan your own career trajectory inside the cultural industries.

There are only two units in this year, culminating in your dissertation and a serial of end of year events. These events are developed by students with the support of your staff and tin can take place both within the academy and external locations.

The dissertation and end of year events are strategically placed side by side to each other to give you both the bureau and resources to address relevant public and professional realms.

The working week

The edifice and studios are vibrant and busy working environments where students acquire together by beingness active and giving time to their studies. The course team will offering structured teaching and breezy learning through events and projects. Students learn the best and are most productive when they are fully committed to their practice and to each other.

You should wait to spend forty hours per week on independent and collaborative do and in teaching events such as workshops and discussions.

Disquisitional studies

Critical Studies tutors are primal in the commitment of theory within the course. Writing and presentation skills and the ability to articulate practice are a key focus and are essential for the practicing artist.

Critical Studies supports a student's theoretical exploration and provides the methodologies and a conceptual framework for developing practice. This takes the form of; lectures, seminars, tutorials and presentations.

Through Stages 1 and 2 there are a number of different forms of written submission leading up to the dissertation in Phase 3. Teams of critical studies and studio tutors jointly supervise this.

Diploma in Professional Studies

Between Stage two and Phase 3 of the form there is an option to take a year out and complete a Diploma in Professional Studies. This separate qualification (rated at 120 credits) involves researching, undertaking and reflecting on a 20-week (minimum) placement related to your professional person interests and aspirations. The Diploma provides a valuable opportunity to make professional person contacts and to develop your personal employability skills. In contempo years BA Fine Art students take had placements at Tate Modern, the Royal Festival Hall, Anthony Gormley's studio and the National Theatre.

Exchange opportunities

Students enrolled on BA Art take the opportunity to spend time studying outside of the United kingdom at a partner institution. Studying overseas allows yous to experience a new culture, an alternative perspective on the course's subject discipline, and different learning and teaching methods. The application process for these opportunities is competitive. Alongside this, BA Fine Art is actively engaged in the Academy's Report Abroad scheme, with the incoming international students bringing an important additional dynamic to the course.

Fashion of study

BA Fine Art runs for ninety weeks in full-time style. It is divided into 3 stages over 3 academic years. Each stage lasts 30 weeks. You lot will be expected to commit 40 hours per week to report, inclusive of teaching time and independent written report.

Credit and honour requirements

The course is credit-rated at 360 credits, with 120 credits at each stage (level).

On successfully completing the course, you will proceeds a Available of Arts with Honours (BA Hons caste).

Nether the Framework for College Education Qualifications the stages for a BA are: Stage 1 (Level 4), Stage 2 (Level five) and Stage 3 (Level 6). In lodge to progress to the next stage, all units of the preceding stage must unremarkably be passed: 120 credits must be accomplished in each stage. The classification of the award volition be derived from the marks of units in Stages 2 and 3, or only Stage 3, using a dual algorithm.

If you are unable to go along on the course, a Document of Higher Education (CertHE) volition normally exist offered following the successful completion of Level 4 (or 120 credits), or a Diploma in Higher Education (DipHE) following the successful completion of Level five (or 240 credits).

Should yous choose to extend your study through the Diploma in Professional Studies, betwixt Stage 2 and Stage 3 of the caste, your success will gain you an boosted Diploma honour.

Learning and instruction methods

During your course you will engage with learning and educational activity that includes both online and face-to-face modes.

Your principal ways of learning volition exist through studio practice. This is supported past:

• Unit of measurement briefing: guidance around what each unit involves and the purpose of the activity for the student
• Inductions and workshops: specialist instruction that is necessary so that you tin understand the range of possibilities in technical workshops and the limitations that have to be imposed to ensure safe exercise.
• Teaching events: taught projects with academic staff both within the studio grouping and in cross programme activities.
• Off-site work: Specific projects with publicly facing outputs or working with external organisations
• Exchange opportunities: Opportunities for students to report abroad in semester2 of their phase 2
• Personal and group tutorials: both ane to ane and group activities in which students discuss their work, ideas and receive constructive feedback
• Seminars: led past a member of staff at that place is a focus upon particular themes or questions in this group activity.
• Critical reviews and presentations: students present a body of work to their peers and a member of academic staff.
• Lectures and guest speakers: Artists and central figures from the fine art world introduce and discuss their practise in a lecture theatre
• Recommended reading, viewing and visits: a range of references available to students from which to select those most appropriate to your piece of work.
• Independent study: Outside of taught consequence you will develop your work in the context of your studio with the support of your peers.
• Peer and self-evaluation: y'all will develop the skills to critically reflect on your own piece of work and that of your peers
• Cess feedback: as well every bit the feedback you are given throughout each unit of study you volition receive formal written feedback at the end of every unit in relation to your class.

Assessment methods

• Studio work: a torso of piece of work presented within the studio or as documentation
• Research and preparatory work: the development of your ideas and the contexts of work (theoretical, technical, political)
• Documentation of piece of work: a body of work digitally presented and submitted online
• Verbal and visual presentations of the work produced for the unit with staff and students present
• Written work: Essays, statements, dissertations that explore your ideas and the context of your work.
• Participation in debate: group discussion with beau students and staff in which piece of work and are discussed and debated
• Peer and self-critical evaluation: verbal and written feedback on your own work and that of your peers.

How to apply

Information for disabled applicants

UAL is committed to achieving inclusion and equality for disabled students. This includes students who have:

• Dyslexia or another Specific Learning Difference
• A sensory impairment
• A physical damage
• A long-term wellness or mental wellness condition
• Autism
• Another long-term condition which has an impact on your day-to-day life

Our Disability Service arranges adjustments and support for disabled applicants and students. Read our Disability and dyslexia: applying for a course and joining UAL information.

Entry requirements

The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:

Ane or a combination of the following accustomed total Level 3 qualifications:

• Laissez passer at Foundation Diploma in Art and Pattern (Level iii or four)
• Merit, Pass, Pass (MPP) at BTEC Extended Diploma (preferred subjects include Art, Art and Pattern or Design and Technology)
• Pass at UAL Extended Diploma
• Access to College Education Diploma equivalent to 64 UCAS tariff points (preferred subjects include Art, Fine art and Design or Design and Technology)
• Equivalent European union/international qualifications, such as International Baccalaureate Diploma (24 points)

And three GCSE passes at form 4 or in a higher place (course A*–C).

Entry to this course volition also be determined by cess of your portfolio.

AP(E)50 – Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning

Exceptionally applicants who practice not meet these grade entry requirements may still exist considered. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative bear witness. This might, for case, be demonstrated by:

• Related bookish or work feel
• The quality of the personal statement
• A potent bookish or other professional reference

Or a combination of these factors.

Each application will exist considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offering in each case.

English requirements

IELTS score of six.0 or in a higher place, with at least v.5 in reading, writing, listening and speaking (delight check our principal English language requirements webpage).

Selection criteria

Applicants are selected according to their demonstration of potential and electric current ability to:

Work imaginatively and creatively in visual media:

• Appoint with experimentation and invention
• Show imagination and ambition in their visual work

Demonstrate a range of skills and technical abilities that:

• Prove personal commitment to skills development
• Engage with materials and processes.

Provide bear witness of intellectual enquiry within your piece of work:

• Demonstrate curiosity and a willingness to research effectually themes and practices relevant to your interests
• Reverberate critically on your learning.

Demonstrate cultural awareness and/or contextual framework of your piece of work by:

• Identifying a range of historical and contemporary art practices
• Identifying social and/or cultural influences on your work.

Demonstrate an ability to articulate and communicate your intentions with clarity:

• Brand use of advisable and effective communication and presentation skills

Point the relevance of this grade to your personal evolution through discussion around:

• Your own ideas across set up project briefs
• Your willingness to work both collaboratively and independently
• Your knowledge of this grade.

What we are looking for

We are interested in students who are prepared to question and to have a critical perspective and who testify potential to develop as innovative artists.

Making your application

We are no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry to this class. Applications for 2023/24 entry volition open in autumn 2022.

You lot should apply through Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and you will need the following information:

University code:          U65
UCAS Code:                 W100

Transfers

If yous are currently studying somewhere else on a course in an equivalent subject field area and would like to transfer to this course, y'all tin can transfer to:

Year two, if you've completed 120 credits in Year 1
Year 3, if you've completely 240 credits in Years ane and 2

Apply via UCAS and choose Year ii or 3 for your POE (Betoken of Entry).  Please check our Pupil Transfer Policy for more important information and be ready to provide us with your current course handbook and Twelvemonth 1/Yr two unit transcripts.

Please be prepare to provide an official document (translated into English) from your current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you lot take completed.

Deferred entry

Cardinal Saint Martins does not have applications for deferred entry. Y'all should therefore apply in the year yous wish to report.

Application borderline

We recommend you apply past 26January 2022 for equal consideration.  Still this class will consider applications after that date, subject to places existence available.

Communicating with you

After y'all have successfully submitted your application, you will receive an e-mail confirming nosotros have successfully received your application and providing y'all with your login details for the UAL Portal.  Nosotros will request whatever additional information from yous, including inviting you to upload documents / portfolio / volume an interview, through the portal.  Yous should check your UAL Portal regularly for whatever important updates and requests.

Please add csm.ukeu@arts.air conditioning.united kingdom to your contacts to ensure that you lot exercise not miss any important updates re: your awarding to UAL.  Besides consider altering your spam or junk mail filter to ensure that emails from @arts.ac.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland get through to you.

We are no longer accepting applications for 2022/23 entry to this course. Applications for 2023/24 entry will open in autumn 2022.

There are two means international students can apply to an undergraduate grade at Fundamental Saint Martins:

• Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) online application organization
• Through i of our official representatives in your country who can support you with your UCAS application

You tin only use to the same class one time per year.

When applying via UCAS you will need the following information:

University lawmaking:          U65
UCAS Code:                 W100

Transfers

If yous are currently studying somewhere else on a course in an equivalent subject area and would like to transfer to this class, you tin can transfer to:

Year 2, if you've completed 120 credits in Year 1
Twelvemonth three, if you lot've completely 240 credits in Years 1 and 2

Apply via UCAS and choose Twelvemonth 2 or 3 for your POE (Betoken of Entry).  Delight cheque our Pupil Transfer Policy for more important data and be ready to provide united states with your current grade handbook and Yr 1/Yr 2 unit of measurement transcripts.

Please be fix to provide an official document (translated into English) from your electric current university, explaining the learning outcomes of the units you have completed.

Visas

Read our visit our immigration and visa advice page to observe out whether you lot need a visa to study.

Deferred entry

Central Saint Martins does not accept applications for deferred entry. You lot should therefore apply in the twelvemonth y'all wish to written report.

Application deadline

We recommend you apply by 26 January 2022 for equal consideration. However this grade will consider applications subsequently that date, bailiwick to places being available.

Immigration history check

You volition exist asked to complete an clearing history check to establish whether you are eligible to written report at UAL.  We will non be able to continue with your application until yous have submitted your completed Immigration History Class.

Communicating with you

After you lot accept successfully submitted your application, you volition receive an email confirming nosotros have successfully received your application and providing you with your login details for the UAL Portal.  Nosotros will request whatsoever boosted information from you, including inviting you to upload documents / portfolio / book an interview, through the portal.  You should check your UAL Portal regularly for any important updates and requests.

Delight add csm.international@arts.ac.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to your contacts to ensure that y'all practice not miss any important updates re: your application to UAL.  Besides consider altering your spam or junk mail filter to ensure that emails from @arts.ac.united kingdom get through to you.

Subsequently you apply

What happens adjacent

Initial application check

We cheque your application to see if you run across the standard entry requirements for the course.  If you do, you will be invited to submit a digital portfolio through UAL'due south online portfolio review system.

Digital portfolio

Your portfolio should be no more than than 15 pages comprising your best piece of work showing your skills and thinking. You can create the pages in any layout (For instance: presentation boards) but they should be uploaded as jpeg images. It should include:

• a range of work – finished works or works in progress
• how you take engaged with experimentation and how well you may accept pushed appetite through proposals and perhaps through making
• how well yous take developed your skills with materials and processes
• how you may have practical any relevant inquiry to your ideas and making – perhaps through the utilise of sketch books and study books
• briefly outline – in one judgement - the ideas and interests behind the works every bit a championship to each folio.

Pathway choices are considered during the admissions process. We therefore advise applicants to describe whatsoever specific interest they have in their personal argument, taking into account the descriptions of the programme pathways we offer. These interests or preferences will also inform the option and presentation of their work.

For more portfolio advice please visit our portfolio communication page .

Interview

Following the review of the portfolio nosotros select a pocket-sized number of applicants to move on to the next stage of the process.  These applicants will be invited to an online interview lasting 15 to xx minutes.

How we notify you of the event of your application

You will receive the terminal result of your application through UCAS runway.

Feedback

This course receives a high number of applications, and unfortunately we cannot provide feedback to anybody who is unsuccessful. Nosotros tin can only provide feedback later you lot have had an interview.

Fees and funding

Dwelling house fee

£9,250 per year

This fee is correct for 2022/23 entry and is subject to alter for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students.

Home fees are currently charged to United kingdom nationals and UK residents who meet the rules. However, the rules are complex. Find out more than well-nigh our tuition fees and determining your fee status.

International fee

£23,610 per year

This fee is correct for 2022/23 entry and is subject area to alter for 2023/24 entry. Tuition fees for international students may increase by up to five% in each future twelvemonth of your course.

Students from countries exterior of the U.k. volition generally be charged international fees. The rules are complex so read more well-nigh tuition fees and determining your fee condition.

Careers and alumni

BA Fine art students leave with a broad and valuable agreement of fine fine art do. Skills caused enable graduates to go versatile practitioners in exciting and diverse contexts.

Many BA Fine Fine art graduates work as artists, or pursue art-related careers as curators, critics or teachers. Others work in graphics, Information technology, media, pic, fashion and advertising.

BA Fine Art graduates often become on to postgraduate study, progressing to a wide range of Masters subjects that include art, philosophy, moving picture, communication, landscape architecture, art history, gallery and museum studies, literature and broadcast journalism.

BA Art alumni activity demonstrates the breadth of pupil activity within the subject:

• Contempo graduates chosen for New Contemporaries: 2020: Rene Matić, 2019: Maria Mahfooz, 2014: Nicole Coson
• Morisha Moodley joined PEER Gallery as their new Gallery Trainee
• Alex Ball: Winner of Catlin Art Prize
• Joshua Alexander & Siobhan Wanklyn: Film screenings, Camden Arts Centre, London
• Tamarin Norward: MFA Art Writing, Goldsmiths
• David Stearn: Bloomberg New Contemporaries
• Rosanna Manfredi: Installation banana to Anselm Kiefer
• Richard Milward: published novel 'Apples'.

For details of the broad range of careers back up provided for students, please visit our Careers back up page.

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Source: https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/fine-art/undergraduate/ba-hons-fine-art-csm

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