Postgraduate scholarships worth £5,000 each are available for Home/EU taught MA students across the University of the Arts London.

The Rector’s Scholarships, funded by the University, are offered as a discount on course fee. They will be awarded according to the applicant’s likelihood of achieving academic excellence. Full time, part time and online MA students are eligible for the scholarships.

Rector’s Scholarship’s – Chelsea College of Art & Design

• MA Curating – 1 scholarship
• MA Fine Art – 2 scholarships
• MA Graphic Design Communication – 2 scholarships
• MA Interior and Spatial Design – 2 scholarships
• MA Textile Design – 2 scholarships

The deadline for applications is 26 April 2012.

You will hear if you have been successful by the end of July.

Rector’s Scholarships Eligibility

• Applicants must have an offer of a place on one of the eligible courses and take up their place in the 2012/13 academic year.
• Demonstrate academic excellence – full details of how you can do this will be on the application form.
• Ordinarily be resident in the UK or a European Union country.

If you apply for your course before 2 April 2012 we guarantee we will process your application in time for you to be considered by a scholarship.

Any questions? Try our Rector’s Scholarships Q&A (PDF).

Apply for a Rector’s Scholarship

An application form for Rector’s Scholarships will be available online in mid-March.

To register your interest and be alerted when the form is available, email funding@arts.ac.uk

Short film capturing the Chelsea College of Art and Design MA Private View 2011.

Filmed and edited by – www.pundersonsgardens.com

Music – Treasure Teeth

Selection of work from the Chelsea College of Art and Design MA Show. You can see more photos on Flickr.

The MA Show continues until Thursday 8 September. Full details can be found on our MA Show event page.

Images top to bottom: Dominik Lazi – MA Graphic Design Communication, MA Interior and Spatial Design, MA Textile Design.

A CCW Salon/Social Mixer organised by current MA students will be held at the Woodmill on the 3^rd December from 5 – 7pm. This event is the first of a series of student led Salons that will take place at the Woodmill throughout the academic year and builds upon last year’s events that took place at the South London Gallery, Auto Italia, Flat Time House and The Woodmill.

The Salon is an opportunity to present any artistic output, be it finished pieces or early experiments, to a peer group of fellow MA students and invited artists, curators and arts professionals. It is a forum for these groups to meet, share ideas, critique work and initiate discussion in a relaxed atmosphere outside of the academic institution.

To submit work and/or participate: email Josh at j.y-barbo1@chelsea.arts.ac.uk.

Event Schedule:
5pm Introduction to the Woodmill by Naomi Pearce and Alastair Frazer

5:15 – 6:15 pm Discussion and Show Reel exploring last year’s Salon series followed by Q&A and student feedback regarding structure of future events.

6:15 – 6:45 pm Past the Parcel at the Parallax Private View by Dirty Square Gallery – A salon proposal presented by Holly Stevenson, MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design including artists Jenny Pickert, Charlotte Patton, Leo Koivistoinen, Eilidh Short, Joe Stevens, Nicko Straniero, Trevor Kiernander, Charlotte Warne, Holly Stevenson, and Sunshine Frere

7:00 – 9:00 pm Woodmill private view: Mark Fell (solo exhibition) Coherence and Proximity in the Hangar and Pale Blue Dot (group exhibition) in the gallery including artists David Beattie, Anne Eastman, Jack Lavender, Damien Roach, Tim Steer and Angharad Williams

Where: The Woodmill -Project Space, Neckinger Depot, Bermondsey, SE16 3QN

For more information visit: http://www.woodmill.org and www.chelseasalonseries.blogspot.com

All MA Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Fine Art students are welcome.

Short clip capturing the Chelsea College of Art and Design 2010 MA Private View.

Short clip capturing the Chelsea PG Dip Fine Art Private View.

Chelsea College of Art and Design opens its doors this month, to welcome the public and individuals from within the arts alike, to its annual Postgraduate Diploma Summer Show.

The show celebrates work by students from Chelsea’s Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art and will take place at the college’s campus on Millbank.

The show will run from Saturday 24th to Tuesday 27th July with a Private view on Firday 23rd July from 6-9pm.

For opening times and visitor information go to www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/summershows2010

Jotta have interviewed MA Fine Art alumnus David A Smith. In the interview David talks about his work, what life has been like since graduating and what the future holds. Read the full interview here.

www.davidasmithart.co.uk

Image: David A Smith – ‘Thief’.

Chelsea MA Curating course leader Amanda Beech has a solo show at Spike Island in Bristol. The show runs from 23 January – 11 April 2010 and see her presenting a new body of work entitled ‘Sanity Assassin’.

‘Sanity Assassin’ is a three-channel video installation with a sculptural element; a spotlit mirrored plinth, which displays a series of polished chainsaws. Situated in a custom designed waiting area, this glamorous structure with subliminal horror movie overtones is homage to the corporate lobby of a real Los Angeles showroom. Shot on location in Los Angeles the work is part of Beech’s on-going investigations into the forceful rhetoric played out within neo-liberal narratives of freedom in philosophy, politics, literature and popular culture.

To accompany the show there will be a seminar with Amanda Beech, Mikko Cannini, Bridget Crone, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Marie-Anne McQuay entitled ’Imploded Action, Dissonant Affects’. The seminar takes place on Saturday 20 March and will address the relation or non-relation between space, image and sound as well as our expectations for art’s effective and affective potential.

For more information visit – www.spikeisland.org.uk

Image: Amanda Beech, ‘Sanity Assassin’ (2010), installation view. Photo: Stuart Bunce.

Chelsea MA Fine Art alumnus David A.Smith has been chosen as one of the Catlin Art Prize finalists.

“The prize is unique in providing the artists with the time and opportunity to develop their practice. They are each commissioned to produce a brand new body of work to be exhibited one year on from their respective degree shows, encouraging them to explore new ideas in a large and modifiable space.

As with The Catlin Guide, the chosen artists are considered to be producing high quality work which demonstrates their capacity to make a significant mark in the art world during the next decade. Based on this criteria, a panel of judges will award one of the artists with the prize of £3,000.” An exhibition of the eight finalists will take place at Village Underground, London in May 2010.

www.davidasmithart.co.uk

Image: Shuck, Anatomical canine skeleton, glow wire, enamel paint, 2009 – David A.Smith