25 Oct
Important Group
London
This post is a fixed term 0.6FTE contract as a job share with the substantive postholder.
The MA Fine Art Chelsea is a 15 month course that is focused on conceptual, performative, new media, and light fabrication practices within professionalized and collaborative international contexts. The MAFA has a large, dynamic, and internationally diverse student community. The course supports an active-learning curriculum foregrounding the values of sociality, global citizenship, critical innovation and entrepreneurialism.
The Interim Course Leader will have a substantial professional profile outside of academia. They will utilize their expertise of global art contexts,
industry operations and dissemination streams across the international arts sectors, and draw from their established artworld experience and professional networks to develop a live MA Fine Art curriculum responsive to graduate futures and knowledge exchange priorities. The Course Leader will continuously enhance the course's world-leading curriculum design and teaching innovation, and further develop external partnerships to ensure industry-purposed pedagogies.
About you
You will have a substantial professional profile outside of academia, and your internationally established practice in the contemporary arts sector will demonstrate your recognised expertise in your specialist area. You will have an astute understanding of a broad range of art practices, histories, contexts, and graduate destinations globally. Your knowledge of contemporary art and theory from non-European regions is desirable.
You will have an established track record of teaching and management in the HE sector at postgraduate level,
and experience of working with very substantial and culturally diverse cohorts. You will have experience in team-building and excellent professional networks to draw from to design and deliver a course with dynamic international profile.
You will be well-organised, inspirational, have outstanding written and verbal communication skills, and be a confident and engaging public speaker. You will have an engaging approach to working with others that promotes inclusivity, initiative, and professionalism.
Interviews will take place on Friday 22 November 2024.
Should you have any questions about the role, please contact Patti Ellis, Programme Director Fine Art Chelsea / *********@chelsea.arts.ac.uk.
Should you have any questions about the application process or require reasonable adjustments for your application,
please contact Christine Crouch, Resourcing Advisor / ********@arts.ac.uk.
Working at UAL
University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities - UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.
We're made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world's creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world.
Because the world needs creativity.
We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2024 QS World University Rankings (for the sixth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.
▶️ Interim Course Leader ma Fine Art (Job Share)
🖊️ Important Group
📍 London