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Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

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Undergraduate Study

Our specialist degree courses are characterised by close links between practice and theory. We offer opportunities for an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach, which blurs traditional boundaries.

Degrees in Fine Art

Degrees in Design

Degrees in Theatre

Degrees in Film

Degrees in Architecture

Postgraduate Study

LICA offers discipline-oriented or interdisciplinary masters that blur traditional boundaries and explore links between theory and practice. We also provide opportunities to undertake doctoral study supported by world-leading researchers and active arts practitioners.

Masters Study

PhD Study

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Research

Research

LICA is committed to leading interdisciplinary and international research in contemporary arts and rigorous enquiry into the relationship between creative practice, theory and criticism.

Imagination

ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory design research lab which conducts applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.

Cultures

Creative Cultures and Contexts (Cultures) features scholars who carry research into the history and theory of Fine Art, Dance, Theatre and Performance, Film, Digital Art and Design.

Practices

The Centre for Practice features scholars pursuing research-based practice across the disciplines of Art, Design, Film, and Performance.

Facilities

LICA Facilities

Lancaster Arts

News

A selection of the work on show (left to right) from fine art student Niamh Evans, wall collages and sculptures by Micol Muratori and a clip from ‘A Year And A Day’, a choreographic work filmed in bedrooms, alleyways, woods and waterways in Lancaster capturing the fantasy of meeting friends and loved ones

Lancaster University Degree Show captures ‘YOUR PERSPECTIVE’

The LICA Degree Show - art, design, film and theatre - will go live online on Thursday (June 24) at 6pm. View the students work across all four subjects and download the free Fine Art catalogue. All links to the show are accessible from 6pm.
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Widening Participation: two BA Fine Art graduates discuss their Lancaster University-funded residencies

Skye Williams and Rachel Doughty, recent graduates of LICA's BA Hons Fine Art scheme, were interviewed by contemporary arts publication Corridor8 about their experiences in undertaking residencies with The Eden Project and Liverpool Biennial.
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Bibliotech “the future of the library” show to visit Cyprus and Liverpool

Dr Nathan Jones has been awarded £10,000 funding by Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, and an invitation from NeME gallery in Limasol, Cyprus to take a new exhibition of reading and archival technologies Bibliotech to Eastern Europe in Autumn 2021.
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Rethinking Symposia

Dr Nathan Jones is currently carrying out consultation for Dundee based art organisation NEoN Digital Arts, rethinking what symposia can be in the context of today’s new media art, particularly in the post-covid situation. 

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