The emergent artists of this year’s MA Painting course at Camberwell view painting as a networked activity through which they can engage with a wide range of urgent subjects, including: the ecological catastrophe and our continued anthropocentric view of the natural world; the impact of social media in a post-truth era; the ways in which myths and religion can be used by authoritarian governments as instruments of state; the psychology of dreams; the significance of architectural heritage to our sense of collective identity.