MDX Fine Art Network

14/04/2026

Fixed-term job alert: GRADUATE ACADEMIC ASSISTANT School of Arts, Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Middlesex University London (NW4)

Closes: 26th April 2026
Interviews: 11th May 2026

Graduate Academic Assistants (GAAs) have an invaluable role at Middlesex, assisting and supporting academics in the facilitation of learning and teaching, dissemination of research and knowledge exchange, and enhancing student experience and employability.

You will join an established team of GAAs and work with experienced academics across all the subjects in the School.

This role is best suited to a recent graduate or postgraduate with a degree in a relevant subject, aiming at an academic or professional career within the HE and/or arts and creative sector.

An opportunity for an academic position as a Graduate Academic Assistant (School of Arts) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

13/04/2026

BA Fine Art Year 1 - end of year exhibition & open studios!

On top of independent studio practice, Semester 2 at was filled with inductions into our state of the art specialist facilities.
With the help of .fingers.mdx our students focused on to create about issues and causes they care about.
They learned and applied many diverse techniques with and recycled waste materials with at the and Small Metals workshop.

23/03/2026

Throwback to semester 1:
BA Fine Art first years created lots of collective light paintings 🎆
📸 Expertly shot by at our photo studios GB05...

13/03/2026

Gallery Trip #3
This time, we visited several commercial galleries between Old Street Station and Farringdon:

📸 1-4

📸 5-11

📸 12-18

+ (my malfunctioning phone glitched the last images - please check gallery profile & website)

We received very generous and insightful introductions to each exhibition!
👉 Lots of fodder for the Year 1 Art Ecologies 'learning journal'...

11/02/2026

📷 1. Oval on a misty day

📷 2-4. Uni Ishihara /

For her first solo exhibition in Europe, Umi Ishihara invites us to enter a world of nocturnal animals, where women come to life after dark, eyes glowing, long claws, climbing high. In the first gallery, the film Nocturnal Melody follows the experiences of Eri and Catalina, two dancers based in Tokyo whose lives are fuelled by music, nightlife and desire. They share their stories; of their childhood, growing up, dreams and politics as we join them in dressing rooms, dancing on stage and in the club all under a cloak of darkness. In this world, orthodox rules and societal codes become slippery. Performing, working, flirting and socialising merge into a continuous lived practice...

📷 5-17. New Contemporaries

New Contemporaries, the leading organisation supporting early career and emerging artists in the UK, presents its annual group exhibition showcasing 26 artists selected through an open call by Pio Abad, Louise Giovanelli and Grace Ndiritu.

The artists engage with dystopian futures; critical responses to the climate crisis, gentrification, experiences of displacement and systems of power. They explore our relationships and connections with each other, our ancestors, and digital technologies across time and geographical borders.

29/01/2026

Last week, our BA Fine Art first years visited and the

The Art Ecologies module introduces and encourages students to engage with the structures of the art world.
Visiting a variety of galleries and institutions contributes to the development and analysis of the individual voice, position and ethic as a professional artist.

📷5-9. 'House of Music', Serpentine South
👉 The exhibition continues - check the gallery website for various music events happening in the next weeks!

📷10. Adobe Residency exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum

📷 11-13. Design & Disability exhibition at V&A

📷 14. Jewellery at V&A (photo credit: )

13/01/2026

The Stanley Picker Traineeship, Matt's Gallery London

Fixed-term (5 months, March – July 2026, with possible extension)
2 consecutive days per week (preferably Thursday – Friday)
Bursary of £5,446.40 over 23 weeks (equivalent to London Living Wage)
The deadline for applications is Sunday 25 January 2026 at 11:59pm

Matt’s Gallery is an independent contemporary art gallery in Nine Elms, London. Its director, Robin Klassnik OBE, opened the gallery in 1979 in his studio on Martello Street, before moving premises to Copperfield Road, Mile End in 1993.

08/01/2026

Between Acts
A student exhibition exploring what happens in the in-between.

14–18 January 2026

Featuring undergraduate, MA & PhD work
Curated by Nunnery Gallery

Aleksandra Adamczyk
Shazia Ahmad
Rivkah Brooks
Susana Cerezuela
Alizah Fayyaz Choudary
Jamie Edler
Jodie Vieira Barros Gonçalves
Alfie Griffin
Lexa Hayden
Ralph Jacob
Amy Kaye
Janae Kuffour
Yizheng Liu
Cyneta Lopes
Venus Malaise
India Maqsood
Sinead McGivney
Christina Oyekan
Naymin Phyo (Kelvin)
Shunshun Qi
Mojgan Razmjou
Layne Scott
Paula Soower
Zahara Taranum
Luke Wilson

03/01/2026

During the Media Sites and Situations module, our second years created new work between analogue and digital realms. With the help of our dedicated technicians, they were introduced to a host of digital technologies for the creation of artworks. These included sound, AI image and video generation, digital scanning and modelling in ZBrush, Virtual Reality via MetaQuest Headset 4 and Unreal Engine..!
In groups the students created virtual exhibition spaces suitable to their concept and artworks, which were presented to the whole year group in the final week of term 1.

We were super impressed with the professional standard of these exciting individual and group outcomes - from virtual reality to a website archive with individual artist showcases that have the potential to live on far beyond this module's final event.
Congratulations on this successful project, Year 2!

All three group projects can be seen here:

1. Identity Loops: Sarah, Layla, Khate, Amanda, Aimee
https://webbmediasolutions.co.uk/exhibition

2. Rendered Realities: Ethan, Ees, Cristina, Ellis, Obinna, Nini, Ann
https://vimeo.com/1145730652?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

3. Traces: Shannan, Soha, Ash, Laura, Michelle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TviIDG95mQ

Please send me a message from your art Instagram profile to get tagged :>

05/12/2025

Graham Hudson is an artist working with ideas relating to fitness, wellness culture and the body as a psychological, cultural and physical subject.

In this talk Graham shared recent work and research focusing on the intersections between sculpture, health culture, embodied practice and artwork that falls over. The presentation explored how sculptural thinking can engage with contemporary fitness and wellness narratives, alongside reflections on process, collaboration, and interdisciplinary methods.

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At the RCA, Graham is based in the Sculpture Programme and the Health and Care research hub. Project partners have included The Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds; Film and Video Umbrella, London; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma; and The Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven. Graham is a regular collaborator with the Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, creating work in New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris and London

26/11/2025

Part two of this semester's open studios: BA Fine Art Year 3 students shared work-in-progress... ...as they prepare for their up-coming interim show in central London / the Nunnery gallery ✨