1,800 Hours of Creativity on Display at Cambridge School of Art Graduate Exhibition
The culmination of 1,800 hours of study, experimentation and artistic expression will go on public display at Cambridge School of Art this summer.
A standard Master's degree in the UK requires 1,800 hours of study. That's 108,000 minutes - or more than 6.4 million seconds - of dedication, risk-taking and creative labour.
From 24 July 2026, visitors will be able to experience the results firsthand in an exhibition showcasing the work of the 2026 MA Fine Art cohort. Set within ARU's renowned Ruskin Gallery and Cambridge School of Art's historic Victorian studios, the exhibition continues a tradition of creative exploration dating back to the school's foundation in 1858.
Only in an art school with a reputation for radical experimentation would you find uncanny printed dolls houses; a life-sized action figure and body parts; 'Frankenstein' paintings; visualisations of quantum theory; biomorphic tufted textiles; hundreds of corn dolly fragments; monumental hand-woven nests and rusted steel forms.
After 1,800 hours of questioning, critiquing, making and re-making, these works mark not an ending, but the beginning of what comes next. The 2026 cohort includes those with established professional practices seeking to push their work into new territory, emerging practitioners writing the new chapter of their creative practice, and individuals who have made dramatic career changes in pursuit of artistic expression.
For more information, contact Veronique Chance
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