A closer look at MA Fine Art 2021 

MA Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts promotes the idea of practice as research, offering students the opportunity to thoroughly investigate their chosen subject. Postgraduate Fine Art students study one of 6 pathway specialisms: drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. A computational arts pathway has been introduced as an option this year.

As part of the MA Graduate Showcase this September, MA Fine Art graduating students showed their work online, in college and in a special exhibition with our neighbours, The South London Gallery.

Here is a closer look at work by 2021 graduates from each of the MA Fine Art pathways.

Drawing is my technique of choice. A drawing that I start needs to lead me to new places. I try to bring it to a point when I cannot say where it begins or ends.

View more of Pawel’s work on the UAL Graduate Showcase

My practice is rooted in a longstanding fascination with people and painting the figure; specifically, I am interested in the tension that exists between the painting and the sitter, how the artist captures an essence of the subject, and the phenomenological presence of sensation in painting.

View more of Tom’s work on the UAL Graduate Showcase

My current installation, titled (Un)Becoming Monster(s): Lab, brings forth the parts of a Sci-Fi post-Frankenstein Trans Laboratory that reminds me of a kind of surgery, a symbolic space of ‘becoming’ which enables an imaginative investigation on the possibilities of queer post-human futures in combinations with new forms of life.

View more of John’s work on the UAL Graduate Showcase

The project started in the Fens in East Anglia but when Covid hit, the focus moved to a small brook at the back of my garden in London.

My practice involves working onsite, immersing myself in the environments I am researching. The research has focused on edges, unstable land/water grounds and disrupted weather systems, exploring ideas around human/non-human assemblage where the vitality and energy of the materials, natural processes and elements contribute to the making of the work, with minimal human intervention.

View more of Helen’s work on the UAL Graduate Showcase

The inspiration for Pavilion comes from the garden, a global cultural carrier. During human civilization, a garden has always played a significant role between nature and society. Stemming from nature, a garden is a fairyland elaborately designed by people. Inside the installation is a water circulation system. Water drips down from the top, falls through copper mesh, and drops into the basin.

View more of Long’s work on the UAL Graduate Showcase