In May 2023 Valerie was offered a place in the painting masters program
at the Royal College of Art
Ranked the world's number one art and design university for eight consecutive years (2015-2022), the Royal College of Art is the world’s most influential postgraduate university of art and design. There are over 2,100 masters and doctoral students from 75 countries and more than 1,000 professionals interacting with them including scholars, leading art and design practitioners, specialists, advisors and distinguished visitors. The RCA is the most concentrated community of artists, designers and communicators to be found anywhere. The College’s mission is to recruit talented students of great variety and complexity.
MA Painting at the Royal College of Art is a world-leading, studio-based masters programme with a successful record of turning out artists working at the forefront of the discipline and of international standing drawing on a wealth of diverse historical, material and conceptual disciplinary resources. Painting engages with current issues and the RCA includes debates around painting as both a medium with a deep and resourceful history and as a vibrant and invigorating contemporary art practice that brings a critical perspective to social and cultural issues that range across global cultures represented by the diversity of the cohort of RCA painting students.
Despite the great honor and rarity of this opportunity, it isn't easy to take full advantage.
The tuition cost for the year is £15,750.
A return trip to London costs £20.
A small room in London near college costs £200 to stay Monday - Friday.
An average £15 will provide food and sundries for a day.
Contact lenses help me see without getting a headache from wearing glasses. £27/month
For staying connected and photographing the artwork, the phone is vital. £20/month
To service & upgrade memory in the current computer £600.
Choose which cost you'd like to help with and send money to cover it. The account below is specifically set aside for this purpose, so only college living costs are paid for from it. From any account in the world use...
Account Number: 4242 0003
Sort Code: 04 00 04
Note what you're helping with.
Making art creates physical results needing physical materials and equipment to make with.
Here is a list of what's needed currently.
Also consider commissioning artwork for your collection.
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Thank-you for considering supporting my program at art college. If you'd prefer to show your support by purchasing artwork, contact me to dicsuss what might suit your collection.
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