Self-portraiture is self-representation. It allows communication with one's own inner image, which is the base for self-knowledge and personal memory.

Self-portraiture also means storytelling and allows one to talk about one's inner world and

external world.

  
The workshop focuses on visual arts as a way of seeing and being seen through the body and the different forms that corporeality can have. Its purpose is to develop a method through research, focus on goals, and technical and aesthetic choices that will allow making a project based on self-portraiture.

  
6 online sessions on Zoom platform, 7 pm – 9.30 pm (CEST), from the 30th of March until the 4th of May.

  
We will look at contemporary practice and the evolution of the use of the body and self-portraiture in visual arts and performance practice. 

Body, sound, writing, memory, and movement will be at the centre of our work.

One of the sessions will be held with Dr. Manuela Stucchi, Psychologist, Psychoanalytic psychotherapist.

Each participant will develop a personal project and each meeting will have a theoretical and practical part.
  
  
Silvia Gentili is a multidisciplinary artist, independent curator, and workshop facilitator. Her practice explores stories that belong to the personal and political realm through the use of photography, film, performance, sound, and text. 

Her research investigates the concepts of trauma and memory in connection to the body, landscape, and storytelling. Recently, her research has moved into the field of Medical Humanities. 

She is vice director of CIDP (Centro Italiano Disturbi di Personalità www.centroclinicocidp.com) and director of MAGMA Hub ([www.magmahub.it](http://www.magmahub.it/)).
  
  

Through the Looking Glass online workshop 

ChoreoComp (dance Choreography & music Composition), August 21-26, is meant for young (pre)professional choreographers and composers. Royal Conservatoire Dance is awarding 3 scholarships to emerging choreographers who apply before June 1st 2023.

ChoreoComp is an intensive six-day course (21-26 Aug.’23) for choreographers and composers who are interested in (speed) creating movement and music with live musicians and dancers. Choreographers and composers who apply should be able to make fast decisions, able to improvise, able to work together/communicate clear with the musicians and dance ensemble and be practical when it comes to producing strategies.

After receiving an artistic assignment in the morning, The three composers and choreographers will pair up every two days to work out a concept. Composers will work independent on these concepts together with their musicians in their studios in Amare while the choreographers work with dancers in the dance studios. At the end of the first day a recording is made of the sketches so far by the composer so that the dancers can already start working with sound. 

The second day composers/musicians and choreographers finish their work and rehearsals take place for the presentation in the evening. Every second day there is a performance of three new pieces!

The ChoreoComp will be coached by Martijn Padding (Composer & Main subject teacher composition) and Jan Linkens (Choreographer & Head dance department).

ChoreoComp is an intensive six-day course (21-26 Aug.’23) for choreographers and composers who are interested in (speed) creating movement and music with live musicians and dancers. 

Participants will organize their own transport and accommodation in The Hague.

In our confirmation mail, we will provide a list of hotels that offer a special discount for our participants.

ChoreoComp Program Scholarships

The Carpenter’s Boat Shop Apprenticeship is a 9-month commitment from mid-March through mid-November.  The program is tuition-free: we provide on-campus room and board with the expectation that participants will work hard building boats, share in meal preparation, and participate in campus chores. We seek applicants of all backgrounds, age 18 and older. 

The Carpenter’s Boat Shop provides a rare opportunity to pause in the midst of life’s challenges and take stock. Boatbuilding is a key vehicle for our work of building greater understanding and compassion for ourselves and others.  Our hope is that by taking care in our work, we become more caring as individuals, and thus better community members.  Community is as central to our program as boats. By living together and through regularly providing service to each other and our greater community, we explore our impacts on the world around us. 

Whether your ambition is to work in the trades, start again after a setback, take time to heal from the loss of a loved one, transition into retirement, or simply evaluate the trajectory of your life, the Carpenter’s Boat Shop offers a supportive community within which to learn and grow. No previous woodworking, sailing, or community living experience is required to be accepted as an apprentice.

Over the course of nine months, each apprentice will learn basic power and hand tool use and participate in the build of many boats and multiple restoration projects.  Off campus we will have monthly service projects planned as well as field trips to explore the Maine coasts rich maritime culture and natural resources.  Also integrated into the curriculum will be weekly seamanship classes and two 9 day sailing expeditions!  

The Boat Shop and the apprenticeship experience are supported by the sale of boats built by apprentices and by the gifts of many generous donors. The Boat Shop also provides care for a regular clientele of boats, offering storage and maintenance services, and some repairs.

Tuition-free program

On-campus room with board

Wooden Boat Building Apprenticeship

The Drawing Year is a full scholarship postgraduate-level course offering up to thirty students the opportunity to focus on drawing from observation for one year. There are no tuition fees for The Drawing Year – all students are awarded a full scholarship and receive a free studio space. 

Every course offered at the School is taught at postgraduate level by distinguished artists and teachers from leading institutions including the Royal Academy, the Royal College of Art and The Slade. In addition to a minimum of 21 hours tutor contact time each week, students are also offered tutorials with visiting tutors. Recent visiting tutors include Celia Paul, Andrzej Jackowski, Deanna Petherbridge, Tom Hammick, Gus Cummings, David Dawson, Issam Kourbaj, Peter Oswald and Hurvin Anderson.

The Drawing Year is a full scholarship postgraduate-level course offering up to thirty students the opportunity to focus on drawing from observation for one year. There are no tuition fees for The Drawing Year – all students are awarded a full scholarship and receive a free studio space.

Post-Graduate Course | The Drawing Year

One full scholarship is available in the School of Design in 2023/24 for practice-based research. This scholarship is open to UK applicants and covers fees plus UKRI matched maintenance stipend for 3 years. 

The School of Design invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2023/24 for the School of Design Doctoral Scholarship. The award is open to full-time or part-time candidates (UK only) who have been offered a place on a PhD degree at the School of Design. 

This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research on a practice-based research topic within Art and Design. We especially welcome applications that connect to the School&rsquo;s strengths in research-led practice and align with one of these four research themes: Place-based and site responsive practice research, The archive as/in practice research, Contemporary painting as research, and Contemporary drawing as research. 

In the School of Design, we bring together academic research, creativity and technology to provide innovative, people-centred responses to contemporary issues in art and design. We have excellent relationships with a range of industry and community partners. We invest in advanced technologies to ensure our research is world-leading and has real-world impact. 

For those interested in engaging with immersive technologies, we offer standalone Android-based Virtual Reality headsets, enabling VR prototype testing and development of research and design projects. Other excellent research facilities include our eye-tracking measurement system including mobile glasses, which are used to understand how users interact with design. We also have EEG (electroencephalography) equipment to understand how users interact with the world. We have a lighting and colour lab with the latest colour measurement and communication tools to explore the role of colour in the design and retail industry and the effect of light on health and wellbeing.

**Information about the Award**

* We are offering 1 full-time/ part-time PHD scholarship in the School of Design for one UK candidate, covering matching UKRI maintenance stipend (currently £17,668 in 2022/23) and UK tuition fees for three years, subject to satisfactory progress.

**Duration of the Award**

* Full-time (3 years) or 5 years (part time). The award will be made for one year in the first instance and renewable for a further period of up to two years (full time) or 4 years (part time), subject to satisfactory academic progress.

  

Art and Design (Practice-based) Scholarship 2023

Summer holidays are ideal times to consider joining us at the Art Academy. For short courses lasting four to five days, we open our studios for classes across a range of disciplines. From introductory courses for the beginner, to masterclasses for the more experienced, our courses are taught by specialists in their fields.

Summer holidays are ideal times to consider joining us at the Art Academy. For short courses lasting four to five days, we open our studios for classes across a range of disciplines. From introductory courses for the beginner, to masterclasses for the more experienced, our courses are taught by specialists in their fields.

We also run a young artists’ course for teenagers interested in or are thinking about applying to art school. Aimed at young people doing GCSE or A-level art, the course is an ideal art school ‘taster’, a ‘no risk’ way for students to get a feel for what it might be like on a [Foundation](https://artacademy.ac.uk/foundation/) course.

Progressive discounts are available for **the same student** booking two or more 5 day **week-long** courses:

2 courses: 5% discount

3 courses: 10% discount

4 or more courses: 15% discount

If you are planning to book more than one course, please contact us directly to arrange the discounted booking.

Art Academy Summer School

The Academy’s Fine Art Foundation course is an internally awarded, proven route to the University or art school of your choice.

Art Academy London is a young and innovative art school, offering courses that are designed and delivered by expert, practising artists.

Fine Art Foundation

Embrace the diversity of contemporary art practices while learning the technical and creative skills needed to become a portrait painter in this one-of-a-kind specialist programme.

BA (Hons) Contemporary Portraiture

Our BA is designed for those aiming to establish an artistic practice. It gives you the freedom to pursue your own interests and aptitudes through a bespoke programme of study.

Our BA course transforms students into working artists with the highest tutor contact hours of any higher education art course in the UK, with experts who are practising artists themselves.
  
  

BA (Hons) Fine Art

The Miriam Waterman Memorial Scholarship was established through a generous donation from the Waterman family, to commemorate Miriam Waterman who tragically died of Covid-19 in 2021. 

The scholarship is awarded to a student of exceptional promise, covering 50% of their tuition fees to study BA (Hons) Contemporary Portraiture at Art Academy London, the only BA of its kind in Europe. 

 Applications are welcome from artists from varying visual arts fields with a desire to focus on Contemporary Portraiture.

“Miriam was a gifted artist and a wonderful human being who brought joy to everyone she met. Her children Becca, Nick and I feel that this scholarship is an appropriate way to remember her and to encourage the development of other talented portrait artists.” 
 – Greville Waterman 

The scholarship is awarded to a student of exceptional promise, covering 50% of their tuition fees to study BA (Hons) Contemporary Portraiture at Art Academy London, the only BA of its kind in Europe.

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