CRIT PROGRAMME | JOANNA WHITTLE _10 | WED 10 SEPT | 18:00

Start Date: 10 September 2025
Time: Wednesdays @ 18:00 BST  | 13:00 ET | 10:00 PT
Duration: 4 weeks
Location: Online
Fee: £95
Capacity: 8
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Course Description

CRIT PROGRAMME is an intensive 4-week course for artists who want to receive incisive analysis and feedback on their practice in a critically supportive online environment. Led by prominent contemporary artists drawn from our award-winning Faculty, each cohort is capped at eight participants—ensuring depth of analysis and individual attention. The programme offers artists a unique opportunity to evolve their practice, gain insight into the Lead Artist’s critical approach, and form powerful peer bonds that extend beyond the course. Open to all disciplines and artists at any stage of their career, CRIT PROGRAMME is designed to be revisited — artists are encouraged to return for future cycles with different tutors, or with new work. 

“This short course was incredibly valuable as it really made me focus on trying to understand the direction my practice was moving towards. The conversation with Jo gave me really strong flashes of insight.” Fiona Richmond 

TIMETABLE

CRIT PROGRAMME includes: 

• Talk from Lead Tutor on own practice 
• Open question group discussion  
• Moderated peer group crit
• Individual 1-2-1 crit with Lead Tutor
• Group crit with Lead Tutor  and peers 
• Peer group chat forum 

CRIT PROGRAMME is for: 

• Practicing artists
• Those working in all contemporary art disciplines
• All nationalities (sessions conducted in English)
• Art College graduates and self-taught artists
• Ages 18+ and at any stage in their careers

LEAD ARTIST: Joanna Whittle

Shortlisted for the first prize at John Moores 2025, Joanna Whittle is a practising painter based in Sheffield, UK with a BA (Hons) in painting from Central St Martins (UAL) and an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art (2000). She is Vice Chair of Contemporary British Painting and a member of the Archives Research Community; the Landscape Research Group; and the Guild of St George (Ruskin Collection). Jo has been a visiting lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, Leeds Arts University, Lancaster University, Hallam University and Camberwell College of Arts (UAL). She was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2018 and 2023 and was winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2019. Jo has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Whitaker Museum, Welbeck Estate and Museum of London; and group exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery, Freelands Foundation, Site Gallery, Collyer Bristow, Royal Academy of Arts.

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£95 for access until 11 September 2025

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