Contemporary Art Academy

Contemporary Art Academy is an online art educational initiative offering courses to practicing artists, co-founded by Zavier Ellis & Mathew Gibson.  

CRIT PROGRAMME | LIANE LANG_05 | WED 10 SEPT | 10:00

Start Date: 10 September 2025
Time: Wednesdays @ 10:00 BST | 05:00 ET | 02:00 PT
Duration: 4 weeks
Location: Online
Fee: £95
Capacity: 8
Interest-free instalment payments available with Klarna


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. 

“Good value, very helpful, insightful mentoring and great to link up with other artists” Helen Scalway

TIMETABLE

Wednesday 10:00-11:30-Introductions followed by 40-minute Lead Artist Talk on own practice. Open question session
Wednesday 10:00-12:00-1-2-1 Crit with Lead Artist. 20-minute individual tutorial with Lead Artist
Wednesday 10:00-12:00-Peer Led Group Crits. 15-minute artist led group crits facilitated by a moderator in a cohort of 8
Wednesday 10:00-12:00-Tutor Led Group Crits. Each artist has 15-minutes to discuss their work with peers and Lead Tutor

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: Liane Lang

Nominated to the Royal Academy in 2025, Liane Lang is a mixed media artist with a focus on the conversation between sculpture and photography. She frequently prints images onto objects to explore the tension between the narrative and historical and the texture, scale and presence of the object. Lang takes a particular interest in monuments, statues and historic spaces. She studied at National College of Art and Design in Dublin, took a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, and an MFA at the Royal Academy Schools, London graduating in 2006. She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts, Musée de Beaux Arts Calais, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, PS1 New York, Kunstwerke, Berlin and Kunstverein Heidelberg. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, such as Royal Academy of Arts, MoMA, V&A, The Art Institute of Chicago, Arts Council England, the Saatchi Collection, Deutsche Bank, Kunstverein Bregenz, Ernst and Young and the Collection of the Kunstamt Spandau, Berlin.

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  • Interest-free instalment payments available with Klarna