Think. Make. Create.

Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)

3rd

For Dance, Drama & Cinematics, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020

3rd

In the UK for Art & Design, The Complete University Guide 2020

4th

For Communication & Media Studies, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018

Professor Judith Mottram, Director of LICA, welcomes you to Lancaster University

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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

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.

Insight

Insight is a creative research centre with disciplinary bases in Fine Art, Theatre, Film, Dance and Sound. It focuses on making meaning in the arts.

Facilities

LICA Facilities

Lancaster Arts

News

Eric Morecambe statue holding the project flyer showing a Casio watch in a pair of hands

Make sure you find the time to take part in new community artwork

It’s time...to take time and join a public art project. Lancaster University's Lancaster Arts team have commissioned ‘Taking the Time’, a project to create an imaginative new artwork, and they are appealing to the community for help.

Ollie Bradley-Baker, Hannah Ferreira and Paula Kolar - back at Lancaster University

And it all started at Lancaster University…

Three former Lancaster University Fine Art graduates, who also graduated from the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford this year, returned to their stamping ground on Tuesday to speak about their work.

Blue, eco-friendly building surrounded by a pond

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity: Transnationalism, Mobility & Borders

This fully funded PhD provides an exciting opportunity to participate in a rich exchange of intellectual perspectives relating to the Institute’s disciplines, while focusing on the research theme “Transnationalism, Mobility & Borders”.

The image on the left is ‘Flood Story: Shanty Town’, by Gerry Davies, one of two drawings which won the ‘Wales Contemporary’ competition and the image on the right is ‘The Wood’, one of the charcoal on paper drawings, by Pip Dickens, acquired by the British Museum

University lecturers draw on their own successes

Four drawings by a member of Lancaster University’s Fine Arts teaching staff have been acquired by the British Museum and a Senior Lecturer in Drawing has just collected a prize in the ‘Wales Contemporary’ competition.

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