Art and Ecology

The MA Art & Ecology is a 15-month studio-based post-graduate programme for emerging artists who want to engage in meaningful and transformative ways with the most pressing ecological questions of our time.

- This is a unique programme that seeks to develop new ways in which contemporary art practice can make interventions in a wide range of ecological contexts, and extend the ways in which ecology is understood.

- We support artists to develop innovative and experimental art practices in diverse sites and scales dedicated to imagining and shaping liveable futures.

- Students develop a wide range of artistic and professional skills showcased in the postgraduate Degree Show and on the programme’s digital platform The Journal of Art & Ecology.

Link art, ecology and social justice
The Masters invites artists to develop innovative art projects grounded in rigorous artistic research and a profound understanding of how ecological challenges such as climate breakdown, pollution, and biodiversity loss are inseparable from questions of social justice.

Alongside media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation, performance, art writing, textiles, digital media and video, this course supports artists who engage with forms of practice such as food production, sustainable data, citizen and expert science, re-wilding, inter-species care and co-dependence, somatic work, and ritual.

This is one of very few postgraduate degrees specialising in art and environment, or art and nature. We actively encourage applications from students interested in working in all manner of ecological contexts, from rural settings to ocean habitats, and from social movements and to scientific institutions.

As this programme is taught in South East London, there is also a unique opportunity to focus on urban ecology.