MPhil & PhD in Curating
Full-time or part-time.
Please submit with your application a statement of your research project outlining your research topic and methodology, together with a short bibliography. If appropriate, you can submit slides and supporting material. Please label these clearly with your name and address; Goldsmiths cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage. Please see Returning your work.
Please see How to apply.
You should normally have a Master’s degree in a relevant subject area.
AHRC
Students have been successful in many fields including media, museums, galleries, education, the music business and academia. Many have continued to be successful, practising artists long after graduating, and have won major prizes and exhibited around the world. The Turner Prize shortlist has consistently included at least one of our former graduates. Six of the prize winners have studied here – Grenville Davey, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing, Steve McQueen and Mark Wallinger.
Our Art programmes aim to equip you with the necessary skills to develop independent thought and confidence in your practice. In addition, these skills are of use in other career paths you may wish to follow.
Please see Tuition fees.
Art
The Curating research programme is for appropriately qualified curators who want to develop and explore the wider implications of their work. We are especially interested in research into innovative contemporary curatorial practices, particularly as they reflect upon representations of contemporary visual culture – above all those in which art practice forms a central element. We anticipate that your research project will have a close affinity to your continuing interests as a curator. We expect specific curatorial projects to become part of your thesis if they can be shown to be integral to your research project. Your curatorial activities will also explicitly inform your research methodology.
At research level, the Department’s aim is to support reflection upon its central concern with practice, both within the contexts of contemporary art and within our academic environment. The Department distinguishes practice at research level by its modality, which should be reflexive and contextualising. As a research student, you should be concerned to contextualise your practice in relation to other cultural production. Empirical research is understood as essential to innovative practice. Practice is also seen as a ‘primary source’ for analytical processes, both enhancing practice itself, and aiding the development of the text element of the thesis.
Please see more information about Starting your research, upgrading to PhD registration, and submitting your thesis. You meet your two supervisors regularly for discussion and guidance, and present your project to staff and students in the Department’s Research Seminar programme at least once each year.
Assessment
Thesis, including practice; viva voce. Or: thesis and viva voce.
Application enquiries
Please see how to apply for information on applying to this programme.