With no access to studios, vital resources or physical degree shows, this year's graduates are frustrated. But, pandemic aside, many believe the problems art students are facing have been mounting for years.
In light of the COVID-19 crisis, many art schools across the UK decided to cancel their annual degree shows and replace them with online ‘showcases’ of students’ work., but in an act of protest — after months of difficulties with management at the school — almost all students graduating from its prestigious Masters in Fine Art refused to show their work in the digital space allocated to them.
“I would have expected some sort of support,” says Ragini Chawla, another recent graduate of the GSA Masters of Fine Art degree, “even if there was some attempt at continuing education in any way, like lectures or reading groups.” But students were told they’d be assessed on work submitted before the 16th of March, essentially ending their education four months early without any kind of compensation.
Even so, the students have become, as Ed Compson, recent graduate of the Painting MA at the Royal College of Art describes, “non-consensual donors”. They had entered into a contract as a consumer of a certain kind of education but, on not receiving it, were being told they had to pay up anyway., formed by students at the Royal Collage of Art in London, who teamed up to apply pressure on university management after claiming treatment not dissimilar to students at the GSA.
The Action Group are still in a long, drawn-out internal complaints process regarding their right to compensation for their lack of learning, but through issuing this vote of no confidence have managed to gain some traction on other issues. According to Ed, the RCA has agreed to put aside £200,000 for physical degree shows for students who have graduated in 2020, which will take place early next year.
“The UCU strikes happened largely because staff feel that the environments being created are bad for the students,” Juliet Jacques, writer, filmmaker and casualised staff member at the RCA explains, “the students noticed that and tended to join us on the picket line.”
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