MA Art & Design

Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts

This flexible project-based postgraduate course is open to artists and designers wishing to develop fresh assumptions for their creative practice by means of innovative, practice-based, research-driven approaches to creative enquiry. Informed by a spirit of interdisciplinary experimentation, and underpinned by conceptual understanding, MA Art & Design promotes awareness of the value-informed nature of leading-edge contemporary art and design.MA Art & Design is open to applications from graduates from art and design subjects, as well as graduates from subjects other than art & design with an appropriate portfolio. In all cases, the course welcomes applicants desiring a transformative experience, who are excited by the prospect of examining disciplinary approaches in an interdisciplinary environment, and who are motivated by qualities of invention, discovery and enterprise.During the intensive 12-month programme in our central Cambridge studios and workshops, you will explore and advance subject specialist approaches at the same as exploring interdisciplinary perspectives for your practice. You will develop confidence in a range of skills and forms of communication and find inspiration and fresh directions for your practice by experimenting with methods, materials, processes and ideas, driving your creative practice and fuelling your professional ambitions.