Fine Art

Harness Falmouth’s renowned fine art expertise, which champions critical exploration.

Realise your artistic vision and ambition on our renowned Fine Art degree, which champions curiosity and encourages critical exploration of historical and contemporary art practices, cultural issues, contexts and debates. With access to studio space and facilities including 3D, printmaking and time-based media work- shops, you’ll evolve your own practice through a rich variety of mediums. By graduation you’ll have an industry-ready portfolio and the ability to effectively present your work to the world, building the foundations for an enduring career.

You will:
Work in a fine art studio space from day one, with access to excellent facilities including 3D, printmaking and time-based media workshops
Collaborate with industry partners such as Newlyn Art Gallery and Tate St Ives
Develop professional practice skills, learning to identify opportunities, take initiative and sustain a viable long-term career in the arts and beyond
Evolve your fine art practice through opportunities such as field recordings, voice laboratories, self-publishing projects, specialist workshops, guest lectures and performances
Collaborate with peers and staff to produce group exhibitions and an online arts festival
Build an industry-ready fine art portfolio

On this studio-based Fine Art degree you'll delve into culture and theory, evolve your practice and gain vital professional skills. Learning from experienced practitioners, you'll investigate contemporary and historical art practices, theories and debates. You'll also develop the skills to effectively present your work to the world. Throughout the course, you'll collaborate with staff and peers to plan and deliver public exhibitions.

Year One
In your first year, you'll join technical workshops and inductions to kick-start approaches to artistic practice. With a focus on co-creation, you'll collaborate with your peers to develop a range of ways to think about, self-initiate, and develop your practice. You'll also investigate contemporary and historical art contexts, developments and debates. At the end of the year, you'll go on to develop and deliver a group exhibition.

Modules
Press Play
Practice in Context 1
Initiating Practice
Practice in Context 2

Year Two
In your second year, you’ll expand your horizons of what art practice is and can be, and how this translates to professional contexts. You’ll further your understanding of research by exploring the relationships between sources, methodologies, themes, and ideas in support of your evolving practice. You’ll also continue to develop the academic and cognitive skills required to develop thoughtful and critical practice, in both visual and written forms.

At the end of the year, you’ll work in teams to produce a public-facing arts event. To do this, you’ll utilise vital professional practice skills including collaboration, team working, negotiation, persuasion, liaison and project management.

Modules
Situating Practice: Studio
Situating Practice: Art Discourses
Testing Ground: Art Encounters
Testing Ground: Collaboration
Testing Ground: Studio

Year Three:
In the third year, you’ll work to establish a professional level of agency over your own creative practice. You'll complete an extensive research project that addresses the question of ‘research as practice’; providing an opportunity to scope the embedded methodologies and theoretical frameworks of your practice. You’ll then mobilise this research to produce a professional, public-facing final exhibition.

Throughout the year, you’ll be supported to develop your professional practice skills, expand your industry and research networks, and find opportunities to test your practice in the real world.

Modules
Practice as Research
Entrepreneurial Practices: Agencies & Audiences
Realisation
Sustaining Practice

As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. Any students affected will be informed of any changes made directly.

You'll be assessed with practical exams and coursework.

Assessment methods
Practice-based modules will be assessed on the presentation of visual work, including preparatory work
Critical studies modules will be assessed on written assignments
In the final year you’ll be assessed on your dissertation and your studio-based module - culminating in an exhibition of your final-year work