Fine Art (with a Placement Year)

Do you see yourself exhibiting at the Tate or selling your work to collectors? Do you want to use your creative talents to engage with your local community? Our Fine Art degree lets you realise your creative potential and combine practical training with an understanding of creative contexts. This course will encourage your ambition and cultivate your talent.

Our Fine Art degree will allow you to realise your creative potential through exciting and challenging opportunities. The course provides experience of a wide range of arts media relevant to contemporary arts practice, this includes but is not limited to: painting, drawing, sculpture, video, photography, digital applications and performance.

You'll be supported to establish your own practice as an artist; working in our spacious studios, galleries and workshops, exploring your ideas through site specific contexts, professional external projects, and a yearly public exhibition.

Our teaching team are all professional artists, and are able to support you with a structured technical, theoretical, imaginative and practical approach to arts practice.

All applicants are individually assessed via a portfolio review.

On successful completion of study, we will issue the following award: BA (Hons) Fine Art

Course Modules

Year One: Studio Practice Introduction, Studio Practice and Exhibition, Creative Cultures: Making, Research & Reflection; Sustainability, Society and Impact

Year Two: Studio Practice Development, Studio Practice: Context and Exhibition, Collaborative Creative Industries Project

Year Two Optional: Art Trail; Colour + Surface: Print, Texture & Material Exploration; Creative Heritage; Digital Journeys: UX & UI Design; Experimental Formats; Experimental Music and Sound Art; Marketing, Branding and Cultural Production; Still Life Through the Lens; Surround Sound and Multichannel Audio; Visual Effects & Motion Graphics; Hybrid Production Methods

Year Three: Placement

Year Four Core: Final Major Project of Fine Art; Contextual and Critical Investigation; Professional Practice

You are assessed in this course by a range of different types of coursework and practical activities. The assessment task for each module will vary dependent upon its content but may include:

• A portfolio of completed artwork, professionally presented in the format required by the assignment, project or brief.
• Workbooks, sketchbooks etc., documenting the process of generating, developing and resolving thoughts/ideas, and demonstrating the influence of research on practical work.
• Research books, folders, dossiers, etc. documenting the gathering, sorting and presentation of research material.
• Written essays or reports, in which you are exploring the contextual or professional background to a specific project.
• An individual or group seminar presentation and/or the accompanying material which you have used to create the presentation.