Fine Art and Illustration

Overview

Combining Fine Art and Illustration creates an opportunity to enhance your artistic abilities and apply them in storytelling contexts. You’ll work with a variety of mediums to create artwork ready to publish and exhibit. Each year you will explore new skills, re-evaluating your previous work as you grow and develop your own unique artistic voice.

The joint honours course allows you to work using diverse processes and methods, supported by lecturers with years of professional experience. Students graduate with global connections and a portfolio of work relevant to roles across a wide range of creative industries.

Key features

• Experience a variety of Fine Art making processes, contexts and media through innovative practice-based research

• Work with internationally recognised artist-lecturers whose own research interests and networks inform the studio culture

• Benefit from a vibrant programme of visiting lecturers and MA students and guest speakers

• Live brief collaboration with national publishers and publications

• Develop a diverse set of skills and leave with a professional portfolio of practice through work placements, collaborations and opportunities to study abroad

• Opportunity to travel to destinations in mainland Europe and introduced to exhibition practice through illustration fairs, card sales and exhibitions in the final year graduation show, as well as through an opportunity to showcase their work in London

Why the University of Worcester?

The University of Worcester is a campus university, meaning everything you need is on site. We’re based in a vibrant cathedral city just 40 mins south of Birmingham and an hour north of Bristol, and our beautiful green campuses have plenty of parking and quality on-site accommodation.

At Worcester, small class sizes, supportive tutors, and professionally focused courses mean you’ll be prepared for your dream career. These are just some of the reasons why we’re first in the UK for both graduate employment and quality education.

• University of the Year finalist in the Times Higher Education Awards 2025.

• First in the UK for sustained employment, further study or both, from any multidisciplinary university – Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) 2017 to 2025.

• First in the UK for quality education – Joint 1st in the Times Higher Education’s University Impact Rankings 2025.

Join us at one of our regular Open Days to see if the University is a good fit for you: www.worcester.ac.uk/opendays