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"Routes to Becoming" is the final exhibition of our journey with @maartsandlearning .Through practice based research, we questioned our connections to learning and education, exploring core notions of belonging, playfulness, memory, and nature.

We are incredibly grateful to all of our tutors, teachers, and technicians who made this exhibition possible after an incredible year (or two!) of learning and growing together. by @maartsandlearning

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Class of 2026 congratulations! A lovely evening with a beautiful bunch of people. Catch the exhibition until Sunday 19th at 5pm. by @maartsandlearning

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MA Arts and Learning Degree Show
Private View: 16th July 6-9pm
📍288NX taken in Goldsmiths, University of London by @maartsandlearning

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Join us to celebrate the 2026 finalists at their MA Arts and Learning exhibition: Routes to Becoming. Opening 16 July, 6-9pm.

After 20 years of the MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices (2006-2016) and MA Arts and Learning (2016-2026), artist, educator researcher master’s programmes at Goldsmiths, from September, Goldsmiths will be offering an Arts and Learning specialism within the new MA Education: Creativity, Policy and Society where artist educators will continue to develop studio practice and connections with schools, museums and galleries in London. by @maartsandlearning

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‘Traces’ @florencetrust by Melina Merlin Paesler, Ana Mastretta Yanes and Jorge Cantu traces Mexican cultural narratives in arts practice. @moxieravenstudio is studying for the PhD Art Practice and Learning at Goldsmiths, and @ana_mastretta for the MA Arts and Learning. They both have a practice research focus that explores ways of reinterpreting Indigenous Mexican artefacts and Mesoamerican culture with feminist lenses.

Melina and Ana are in several group shows this year, some of which - like Traces, are assisted by Melina’s artist’s residency at the Florence Trust.

Centre for Arts and Learning congratulates Melina and Ana for their innovative collaborations! by @maartsandlearning

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Trips to the showroom with @maartsandlearning earlier this year.

A thoughtful time spent with @theshowroomlondon. For me, the visits raised questions around what participatory community arts look like.

Slides 1-5: The exterior of the gallery is an exhibition in and of itself, it is a reflection of their dedication to engage their surrounding community. The artist here is Mandy El-Sayegh, and her work entitled, This Is a Sign Notes on Assembly.

Slide 6: Multidisciplinary Artist, Sojung Jun: I Do Nine Tailed Fox.

The last 2 slides: My student colleagues and I spend time collaborating with young curators in developing a response to a design breed: create design proposal for the exterior of the gallery. We based our ideas around our identities; Jamaica, Ghana and China.

#participatoryart
#theshowroomlondon
#nadinewalkerlondon
#maartsandlearning taken in The Showroom by @maartsandlearning

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In this workshop, we will explore our relationship with the archaeological past and present through the Venus of Tamtoc, a sculpture from the Huastec region of Mexico.

Very little is known about this sculpture beyond its discovery in fragments beneath a sacred water spring. Rather than attempting to fill these gaps, this session invites participants to embrace the unknown and to engage with questions of meaning, absence, and mystery.

Through drawing, writing, and collective sharing, we will reflect together on what it means to encounter an artwork that resists fixed interpretation.

Open to all Goldsmiths UOL students.

🌻 Registration link in bio

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15 May, 6:00–7:30 pm taken in Goldsmiths, University of London by @maartsandlearning

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‘Plural Horizons’ were envisioned in Molly Pardoe’s PhD Art Practice and Learning viva exhibition at @ampgallery.

@mollycpardoe’s cohesive body of work explores transnationalism through painting. @mirandamatthews has supervised Molly, with @esthersayers, since 2020. Centre for Arts and Learning is delighted with Molly’s developments in practice research.

@maartsandlearning students visited Molly’s exhibition to address questions about how and why artworks are curated for exhibition, on this atmospheric and fruitful occasion. #transnational #painting by @maartsandlearning

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The 2025-26 research theme ‘stories of change’ was addressed by Megan Lovett, Learning Manager at @bowarts and artist @esther_neslen , in the context of problem-posing the changes that happen in creative learning experiences, gathered at Bow Arts Trust and in Neslen’s range of participatory projects.

Megan Lovett said, ‘So many of the teachers who visit are actually frightened of the creative process, so having someone like Esther go in with some practical skills can enable them to be more confident in delivering art lessons…From a teacher perspective, you want this experience but then there come all the practicalities: We’ve created all this work and now how do we display it and evidence it?’.

The ‘resistances’ of differences in school and gallery contexts were raised. ‘We’ve been invited to do something open and creative as artists but now we’re coming up against all of these resistances.’ Meg said that Bow Arts projects encourage, ‘Having a mindset when you can keep people creative and free without sticking to a rigid curriculum.’

Esther Neslen shared the changes and adaptations made in discoveries and difficulties to work through in projects with schools and community groups. Regarding the ‘Monstrous Assembly’ project in which large clay sculptures were made at the Epping Forest Visitors’ Centre in 2019, Esther said, ‘I wanted to get people with all different ideas and get them together.’

Esther Neslen talked about how projects with schools can introduce more diverse artists for culturally relevant learning referring to David Drake aka ‘Dave the Potter’. While he was enslaved in 19th century America, he made clay pots, and wrote his name and poems on the pots. Esther said, ‘It was illegal for slaves to read and especially to write. What he was doing was public and radical, and I wanted to demonstrate the powerful possibilities of literacy - of writing your name.’

Esther also relates to culturally relevant contemporary artists such Sylheti artist Rana Begum, who lives and works in London, when working with school students with Bangladeshi heritage in Tower Hamlets. by @maartsandlearning

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This year we continued our formative assessment exchange with @raphaelvella and master’s students at @ummalta. Goldsmiths and University of Malta students reflected on recently assessed projects and assignments, towards gathering feedback for their ongoing work in progress from a range of international viewpoints.

@maartsandlearning students shared their reflections on a practice based inquiry connecting with experiences of working with a range of learning and participation curators at six museums, galleries and arts organisations. University of Malta students shared their recent project for co-designing and making a skate park in Malta with local skate groups and community members. by @maartsandlearning

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When @frankbowlingstudio visited @maartsandlearning this Spring we reflected on turning points in the life course of Bowling as an artist.

Ben Bowling and Susi Sahmland said that, ‘The things that lead people to change maybe only observed as moments long after the act.’

‘In New York in the 1960’s he saw light coming through the window onto his canvas that he thought looked like the map of South America, and this was a turning point in his career.’

Art also changes in the making.

‘Growing older has changed how he practices his work.. he needs help and that has changed how he paints.’

The group talked about significant changes in a person’s life, which could potentially be to do with people, illness, serendipity, personal identity, artistic identity, location or politics.

When Ben and Susi asked Frank about his stories of change, Frank said the biggest change in his life and influence in his career was Clement Greenberg who said, ‘It’s flat’, abstract art is flat. by @maartsandlearning

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Exciting #OpenDay to learn about postgraduate and undergraduate programmes at Goldsmiths! We look forward to welcoming you on campus and answer any questions you may have about how our courses can advance your future!

BA Education
PGCE Primary and Secondary
MA Children’s Literature
MA Children’s Literature: Children’s Book Ilustration
MA Arts and Learning
MA Social Justice in Education
MA Creative Writing in Education

Learn more about our education programmes here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/subjects/education-lifelong-learning/ by @maartsandlearning

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