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Contemporary Art Practice at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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Open days

22May
The University of Edinburgh - Postgraduate Online Learning Open Days
Postgraduate

Course summary

This programme offers a constructive, critical environment for artists wishing to develop their practice. Our students produce artworks in a range of media, using:

  • paint
  • sound
  • performance
  • photography
  • video
  • sculpture
  • digital animation
How will I learn? Teaching is primarily by one-to-one tutorials and mixed year group critiques with a year-round programme of visiting artists. We emphasise the centrality of conversation and dialogue to developing innovative art. We also create a supportive environment to nurture risk-taking as fundamental to producing ambitious original art. Courses examine key contemporary art developments and ways in which artists can self-organise, collaborate and curate opportunities to exhibit. We emphasise the application of theory to practice and vice versa. You will collaborate on self-organised exhibitions at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and at our external gallery partners. Theory courses encourage creative and academic responses to key contemporary art debates and we insist on research projects that are connected to practice. Our graduates Graduates produce exhibitions internationally, and have been selected for major residencies, exhibitions and prizes, such as:
  • Bloomberg New Contemporaries
  • Saatchi New Sensations
  • Glasgow Film Festival
  • Edinburgh International Art Festival

Entry requirements

Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on our website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.

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Contemporary Art Practice at The University of Edinburgh - UCAS