Overview

The MA Illustration and Visual Media course at University of the Arts London (UAL) provides a critical space in which traditional definitions of this field can be challenged, deconstructed and reconfigured to provide a unique platform from which our graduates can move into professional practice as autonomous artists.

What can you expect?

MA Illustration and Visual Media is distinctive in its emphasis on students developing their own bodies of work. We do not believe that illustration is a philosophy of practice or self-contained discipline in the contemporary visual world - moreover it is one of many contexts in which images may exist on or offline.

Through experimental practice-led research, you will develop an independent and critical relationship to the contemporary image, with the potential to work across a broad range of specialist visual media.

You will have access to LCC's significant resources in digital and time-based media alongside printmaking, 3D and photography. This environment encourages experimental and reflective practice and the opportunity to work alongside your peers in technical workshop and studio environments.

The course begins by helping you to position yourself with a critical understanding of working as an artist-researcher at postgraduate level. Through studio and seminar sessions you will be introduced to a range of critical and theoretical ideas, and explore the ways in which artists use research, which will develop your ability to contextualise your own practice.

As you progress through the course you will be supported in generating bodies of self-authored creative work that extend your personal visual language and approach to the made image.

Throughout the course you will be asked to produce reflective writing that helps you to position your work in a critical context that relates to contemporary thought in visual culture, culminating in a Final Major Project and Thesis.

The course supports you in progression to research at MPhil/PhD level as well as to advanced self-directed experimental practice.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Emergent Image
The Critical Image

Collaborative Unit

The Authored Image
The Contemporary Image: Final Major Project and Thesis

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 15 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-04-03 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

6.5

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Required

English requirements

IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

Entry requirements

Honours degree in either illustration, visual communication or graphic design or closely related subjects

Possession of equivalent qualifications

Prior experiential learning, the outcome of which can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required

Or a combination of formal qualifications and experiential learning which, taken together, can be demonstrated to be equivalent to formal qualifications otherwise required
If your first language is not English, you can check you have achieved the correct IELTS level in English

CV

Personal statement

Portfolio

Study proposal/project proposal

Tuition Fee

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International

29990 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 29990 GBP per year during 15 months.
National

14000 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 14000 GBP per year during 15 months.

Living costs for London

1137 - 2157 GBP /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

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Available Scholarships

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