Over 100 MA students from one of the UK's longest established postgraduate fine art courses will show their work in a unique, two-part exhibition at Chelsea College of Art and Design during April.
In Two Parts showcases students on Chelsea's prestigious MA Fine Art. The intensive, 45-week taught masters boasts many famous graduates, including Anish Kapoor, Mike Nelson, Rebecca Warren, Kimio Tsuchiya, Mariele Neudecker and Andreas Oehlert.
The course covers the whole fine art spectrum, and work on show includes installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, film, print and performance art. According to current student Nickolai Ishchuk, it is the relationship between these different disciplines that makes the MA so attractive. "What is great about Chelsea is that there's a painter sitting to your left, and a sculptor to your right, and a photographer behind you," he says. "You're in constant conversation, which gives you more insight into your own practice. You also help others to achieve the same."
As an interim show, In Two Parts represents the midpoint of the MA Fine Art course, and offers a unique snapshot of students' work, often in progress, at a key moment in their academic careers. Instead of seeing finished, polished pieces, visitors to the exhibition will gain an insight into the process of producing an artwork, and discover what it's like to study fine art as a postgraduate at Chelsea.
"This exhibition documents the atmosphere and process of re-evaluation, risk and exploration that takes place on the course," says course director Brian Chalkley. "The diverse cultural interaction is central to this experience."
Chelsea College of Art and Design is one of six colleges that make up University of the Arts London. The world's leading specialist creative university, UAL also hosts the largest postgraduate arts and design community in Europe.
Chelsea offers its postgraduate courses through the CCW Graduate School. Fine art courses there include an MFA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art and MA Fine Art Digital (Visual Arts) at Camberwell College of Arts, which explores what art is in the digital age. The university's other prestigious centre for fine art teaching and research is Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, which offers an MA Fine Art and a pioneering MA Arts and Science, part of Central Saint Martins' Postgraduate Art Programme.
Peter Doig another renowned graduate of Chelsea's MA fine art, also studied at Central Saint Martins. Students at the university are able to develop their fine art practice at different levels across UAL's six colleges, which all offer courses from foundation to PhD.
Chelsea College of Art and Design MA Fine Art Interim Show: In Two Parts takes place from 11-13 April and 18-20 April 2013 at Triangle Space and Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design. Visiting times and further information are available online.
You can view some of the work of Chelsea MA Fine Art students on the UAL website.
UAL's degree shows (April to July and in September each year) feature the work of final-year students at all six colleges. Browse degree show work of recent graduates, and find out 2013 summer show dates when they become available, at UAL's online Showtime gallery.
For course descriptions by college, level and subject, and for the application process, videos and online galleries across the university, visit the UAL website. Scholarship information is also available online.
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