Master of Arts (eca) - Contemporary Art Practice

This program offers a constructive, critical environment for artists wishing to develop their practice. The University of Edinburgh students produce artworks in a range of media, using paint, sound, performance, photography, video, sculpture and digital animation.

Teaching is primarily by one-to-one tutorials and mixed year group critiques with a year-round program of visiting artists. University emphasize the centrality of conversation and dialogue to developing innovative art and 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 organize, collaborate and curate opportunities to exhibit.

The University of Edinburgh emphasize the application of theory to practice, and vice versa, and students will collaborate on self-organized exhibitions at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and at university's external gallery partners. Theory courses encourage creative and academic responses to key contemporary art debates and their insist on research projects that are connected to practice.