Fine Art and Material Practice

This Degree is awarded by the University of Gloucestershire, based at Bristol School of Art in the heart of Bristol. We aim to provide a learning environment that enables you to explore and define your creative identity as artists or makers at professional level. Our belief is that through engagement with art and material practice you will develop a methodology of understanding and responding to your lived experience. You will have the opportunity to experiment and specialise in a range of different techniques including drawing, printmaking, painting, 3D processes (sculpture, ceramics, small metal and textiles) and digital processes (Adobe Suite, photography, moving image), which will contribute to your own sense of an individual creative identity.
We embrace diversity in every form and take pride in our inclusive and supportive college environment. Our concerns for equality, ecology and sustainable practice, collaboration and a nurturing attitude to creativity and study are fundamental to this programme.
We promote a learning culture of curiosity, skills building through experiment and practice, critical reflection and debate, rooted in knowledge of historical and contemporary practices of artistry and making.
You will engage with current debates, research and historical discourses which will help contextualise your understanding and develop your ambition and how you choose to define your practice.  Alongside the continuing development of your own studio work, you will undertake modules that require you to research and engage with examples of practice within social, community and other contexts. You will experience taught workshops, independent studio/workshop activities, seminars, tutorials and lectures.
Later studio practice modules will build upon your skills encouraging you to be increasingly autonomous and independent. You will research the ways in which artists and makers, both in the past and now, contribute to the wider cultural, commercial, and social environments. 
A key focus of the course is employability and transferable skills to help ensure you secure meaningful employment post study. Creative and critical thinking is at the heart of the programmes deign, which you will be supported to develop alongside wider skills in terms of technical ability and interpersonal skills and collaboration.  These will be supported through professional practice activities and assignments including an off-site exhibition. Your artistic output is the focus for assessment throughout the degree, which is enhanced through sector-based opportunities such as funding applications and curation of exhibitions. There are no exams with assessment framed around portfolio work, presentation of practical work and formal presentations.

Part time routes are available. For more information, please email HEadmissions@sgscol.ac.uk

Open Days Why not visit Bristol School of Art at an Open Day? You will have the opportunity to meet tutors and Student Ambassadors. To register interest please go to our website: https://uni.sgscol.ac.uk/open-events

GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES:
• Fine Artist/ maker
• Curator
• Museum/Gallery work
• Artist Residencies
• Education
• Postgraduate study, such as PGCE or Masters. This could be in Fine Art/ Arts Practice/ Design or Art Therapy.