• MA Textiles, based at UCA Farnham, is built around developing their individual research into textile art, culture, craft, and design and will enable students to combine the previous experience of textiles practice with a personal project. Students will be encouraged and supported through the process of exploration, transformation through to resolution.
  • Challenging their own conventions, students will innovate with materials, processes, techniques, and ideas and emerge with a renewed sense of personal vision.
  • Students will benefit from the links with established artists and designers drawn from the UK and international cohort. The team comprises eminent professors, visiting scholars, academics and associate lecturers, experienced practitioners, designer-makers, artists, and researchers, who work in the industry, produce commissions, and regularly exhibit and are published internationally.
  • The course program includes opportunities for live working projects with established galleries. The content of lectures and seminars focuses on professional practice, including high-profile guest speakers from art, craft, industry, and design practices.
  • University curate the own Textile Collection, which provides students with an enviable on-site archive of historical and contemporary material objects to study. Also located in the Farnham campus is the internationally renowned Crafts Study Centre, UCA’s purpose-built museum, research center, and gallery dedicated to crafts.
  • University has a long list of alumni who set up as designer-makers and practice as textile artists and many work in education as academics and researchers.