Our Programmes
Contemporary Fine Art Mentoring
Contemporary Fine Art Practice
Contemporary Fine Art Practice is a new remote learning programme designed to build, support and ultimately strengthen your artistic-practice through a bespoke and therefore individualised programme. The Contemporary Art Practice programme is a melting pot of minds and creative energy, an easily accessible and convenient platform designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the field of Contemporary Art Practice.
The course will introduce you to many of the issues, discussions and contextual nuances relevant to your practice by analysing your practice and offering advice and suggestions designed to help you to open up new pathways for investigation. You will be guided by thoughtful professional artists, cultural influencers and experienced academics who will discuss the conditions, questions and contexts appropriate within international art discourse and how these might relate to your work. We aim to build a dialogue and atmosphere that will push you to produce work that challenges the boundaries of fine art - ultimately building you as a practicing artist, helping you to forge connections between your practice and the channels and networks that will allow you to flourish.
The course is about receiving good quality and timely advice and acting on it. It is a one-year course both intense and challenging yet manageable. We aim to build a friendly and supportive, yet critically sensitive atmosphere.
This course is appropriate and relevant to artists looking for an alternative to MA studies as well as being relevant to candidates who are post MA, who want to either refresh their practice or re-establish discourse and connections.
The programme will provide you with monthly written emailed feedback correspondence from leading practicing artists, academics and cultural influencers. Our tutors will respond to the uploaded images of your work on our platform and give you a personal response that will focus on improving your work, your knowledge of the field and understanding of professional practice. They may also comment directly on how you might expand your research and offer bespoke technical and conceptual guidance.
For an additional payment learning can be enhanced by activating a "studio tutorial call-out" at an affordable rate. This option allows you to book a tutor to come and speak with you in your studio for one hour or more and provides face to face contact if required (*at present this is offered to students based in London, Glasgow and Brighton only).
*Skype tutorials are also available under a similar "call-out" scheme.
Contemporary Fine Art Mentoring
Contemporary Fine Art Practice
Contemporary Fine Art Practice is a new remote learning programme designed to build, support and ultimately strengthen your artistic-practice through a bespoke and therefore individualised programme. The Contemporary Art Practice programme is a melting pot of minds and creative energy, an easily accessible and convenient platform designed to encourage experimentation and innovation in the field of Contemporary Art Practice.
The course will introduce you to many of the issues, discussions and contextual nuances relevant to your practice by analysing your practice and offering advice and suggestions designed to help you to open up new pathways for investigation. You will be guided by thoughtful professional artists, cultural influencers and experienced academics who will discuss the conditions, questions and contexts appropriate within international art discourse and how these might relate to your work. We aim to build a dialogue and atmosphere that will push you to produce work that challenges the boundaries of fine art - ultimately building you as a practicing artist, helping you to forge connections between your practice and the channels and networks that will allow you to flourish.
The course is about receiving good quality and timely advice and acting on it. It is a one-year course both intense and challenging yet manageable. We aim to build a friendly and supportive, yet critically sensitive atmosphere.
This course is appropriate and relevant to artists looking for an alternative to MA studies as well as being relevant to candidates who are post MA, who want to either refresh their practice or re-establish discourse and connections.
The programme will provide you with monthly written emailed feedback correspondence from leading practicing artists, academics and cultural influencers. Our tutors will respond to the uploaded images of your work on our platform and give you a personal response that will focus on improving your work, your knowledge of the field and understanding of professional practice. They may also comment directly on how you might expand your research and offer bespoke technical and conceptual guidance.
For an additional payment learning can be enhanced by activating a "studio tutorial call-out" at an affordable rate. This option allows you to book a tutor to come and speak with you in your studio for one hour or more and provides face to face contact if required (*at present this is offered to students based in London, Glasgow and Brighton only).
*Skype tutorials are also available under a similar "call-out" scheme.
Contemporary Painting Mentoring
Contemporary Painting Practice
The Contemporary Painting Practice mentoring programme is a new remote learning course. The programme is a melting pot of minds and creative energy, an easily accessible and convenient platform designed to encourage exploration within the field of painting at an affordable rate. The course is friendly and supportive, yet critically intense.
The aim of the programme is to provide an opportunity to further strengthen your specialist painting practice and help you on your way to forming a career practicing as a contemporary painter by working with and responding to emailed guidance. This guidance will be provided by thoughtful professional painters, cultural influencers and experienced academics with years of exhibiting and teaching experience. We aim to guide you through many of the conditions, questions, contexts and techniques appropriate to international painting practice by analysing your practice and offering advice and suggestions designed to open up new pathways for investigation. We specialise in guidance aimed at improving techniques as well as providing contextual and conceptual understanding on the potential role of painting within contemporary art and the wider world.
The programme will provide you with monthly written emailed feedback correspondence from leading practicing artists, academics and cultural influencers. Our tutors will respond to the uploaded images of your work on our platform and give you a personal response that will focus on improving your work, your knowledge of the field and understanding of professional practice. They may also comment directly on how you might expand your research and offer bespoke technical and conceptual guidance.
*For an additional payment learning can be enhanced by activating a "studio tutorial call-out" at an affordable rate. This option allows you to book a tutor to come and speak with you in your studio for one hour or more and provides face to face contact if required (*at present this is offered to students based in London, Glasgow and Brighton only).
*Skype tutorials are also available under a similar "call-out" scheme.
Contemporary Painting Mentoring
Contemporary Painting Practice
The Contemporary Painting Practice mentoring programme is a new remote learning course. The programme is a melting pot of minds and creative energy, an easily accessible and convenient platform designed to encourage exploration within the field of painting at an affordable rate. The course is friendly and supportive, yet critically intense.
The aim of the programme is to provide an opportunity to further strengthen your specialist painting practice and help you on your way to forming a career practicing as a contemporary painter by working with and responding to emailed guidance. This guidance will be provided by thoughtful professional painters, cultural influencers and experienced academics with years of exhibiting and teaching experience. We aim to guide you through many of the conditions, questions, contexts and techniques appropriate to international painting practice by analysing your practice and offering advice and suggestions designed to open up new pathways for investigation. We specialise in guidance aimed at improving techniques as well as providing contextual and conceptual understanding on the potential role of painting within contemporary art and the wider world.
The programme will provide you with monthly written emailed feedback correspondence from leading practicing artists, academics and cultural influencers. Our tutors will respond to the uploaded images of your work on our platform and give you a personal response that will focus on improving your work, your knowledge of the field and understanding of professional practice. They may also comment directly on how you might expand your research and offer bespoke technical and conceptual guidance.
*For an additional payment learning can be enhanced by activating a "studio tutorial call-out" at an affordable rate. This option allows you to book a tutor to come and speak with you in your studio for one hour or more and provides face to face contact if required (*at present this is offered to students based in London, Glasgow and Brighton only).
*Skype tutorials are also available under a similar "call-out" scheme.
Portfolio Preparation
Portfolio Preparation
Securing a place on a fine art course at a traditional art school with a proven track record can be a big challenge. Our Portfolio Preparation course offers guidance and help in achieving that goal. Over the course of a year you will be set tasks to develop your skills and demonstrate your abilities to their fullest as you build up an art portfolio. You will receive personal feedback from a practicing artist with years of experience with the goal of developing a portfolio worthy of a successful application at the institution you identify.
Portfolio Preparation
Portfolio Preparation
Securing a place on a fine art course at a traditional art school with a proven track record can be a big challenge. Our Portfolio Preparation course offers guidance and help in achieving that goal. Over the course of a year you will be set tasks to develop your skills and demonstrate your abilities to their fullest as you build up an art portfolio. You will receive personal feedback from a practicing artist with years of experience with the goal of developing a portfolio worthy of a successful application at the institution you identify.
PhD Application Mentoring
Preparing for an Art PhD Application
In order to teach at university level these days you need a PhD. Therefore, the number of artists undertaking a PhD has sky-rocketed. One of our most subscribed to courses is the "Preparing for an Art PhD Application" course. Generating a research question and understanding how you might go about this is a tricky business. If you can't get your head around it then why not apply to be on the PhD prep course that we offer? This is a remote learning service designed to help you strengthen your application to an art PhD and get you acquainted with some of the terminology and ways of structuring an application.
You will be assigned a specialist to help guide you through the process and help you to establish a potential research question/area by undertaking specific exercises and tasks. You will be given monthly feedback and guidance on how to move the application forward and understand how your research area and application stands up to the examination of: Methodology, Literature Review, Ethics and Impact.
The support will be provided by an experienced academic trained in PhD support or a "Dr" who has gone through the entire process of obtaining an art-based PhD.
PhD Application Mentoring
Preparing for an Art PhD Application
In order to teach at university level these days you need a PhD. Therefore, the number of artists undertaking a PhD has sky-rocketed. One of our most subscribed to courses is the "Preparing for an Art PhD Application" course. Generating a research question and understanding how you might go about this is a tricky business. If you can't get your head around it then why not apply to be on the PhD prep course that we offer? This is a remote learning service designed to help you strengthen your application to an art PhD and get you acquainted with some of the terminology and ways of structuring an application.
You will be assigned a specialist to help guide you through the process and help you to establish a potential research question/area by undertaking specific exercises and tasks. You will be given monthly feedback and guidance on how to move the application forward and understand how your research area and application stands up to the examination of: Methodology, Literature Review, Ethics and Impact.
The support will be provided by an experienced academic trained in PhD support or a "Dr" who has gone through the entire process of obtaining an art-based PhD.
Programme Costs
Contemporary Fine Art Mentoring
£1,440
- Spend one year in regular direct contact with your assigned tutor. Develop your own unique working practice as you gain a thorough understanding of contemporary fine art production and learn how to apply it to your own work.
Contemporary Painting Mentoring
£1,440
- Spend one year in regular direct contact with your designated tutor. Develop your own unique approach to painting as you gain a thorough understanding of contemporary painting practice and learn how to apply it to your own work.
PhD Application Mentoring
£440
- This short course consists of three bespoke feedback reports or Skype tutorials from your personal mentor, made in response to your Research Proposal and examples of practical work.
Pre-Degree Mentoring
£1,440
- Spend one year in regular direct contact with an assigned tutor to develop your art making skills and build a portfolio suitable for application to an undergraduate course at a UK art school.
How Do I Apply?
Application is free and open to everyone. Courses begin all year round upon successful application and enrolment. Applications are now open.