Communication MFA

Royal College of Art

Candidates are selected entirely on merit. We welcome applications from all over the world, as well as from mid-career artists and career changers. The selection criteria will consider creativity, imagination and innovation as demonstrated in your portfolio or equivalent professional experience, as well as your potential to benefit from the programme and achieve high MFA standards.You will need to demonstrate that you have the ability to engage in the study of Communication at Master's level, including existing technical skills to produce work at Master's level within a creative arts discipline.Portfolio requirementsWe recommend reading the below guidelines carefully before compiling your portfolio and making your submission. MFA Communication requirements are different to those of the MA programmes.ContentYour portfolio or showreel should demonstrate an established practice in a field relevant to Communication.Please include links to any; galleries, magazines, museums, journals, edited volumes, book fairs, publishers, film festivals or similar. We are interested in where and how your work has been made public.Experimentation, work in progress and speculative projects are encouraged. Please accompany with a reflective commentary.Your portfolio or showreel should not consist solely of work that you have completed as part of a program of study (BA/MA). The main focus should be work that you have produced independently after graduation. This may include both professional work and self-initiated projects.We encourage applicants with equivalent, professional knowledge. If your career has developed via a professional path rather than a formal educational route please tell us about this. If your current practice is not directly aligned with the creative arts, your commentary should show that you have considered how your previous work has prepared you for study on the programme.We are interested in why you are choosing to undertake an MFA. What do you want to achieve How will this enable you to reconsider your practice? Do you know how you plan to do this yet We are interested in the questions you are asking, so do not feel you need to have all of the answers yet.You should aim to demonstrate a knowledge of and engagement with contemporary communication, practice, theory and debates. Please clearly label and credit all work and include accompanying texts, quotes or commentary alongside each project.We are interested in; How and why you work as well as who and what your work is for and where it can be encountered.Please include a bibliography of relevant references including texts, moving image, art works, interactive work, artists and practitioners etc.Your portfolio should be an easily accessible, well edited and thoughtfully presented account of your work and ambitions.Personal statementPlease provide a 300-word written personal statement that addresses the following points:Introduce yourself, your interests and your motivations for applying to the Royal College of Art, and to this programme in particular.Briefly summarise any educational background and professional experience to date that will support your application.Tell us what you want to do in the future.Video requirements