Fine Art (including Foundation Year)

As a developing artist, our Fine Art degree course will provide you with a dynamic and inspiring environment with which to explore, practice, expand, develop and deploy your creative potential. You’ll be supported and encouraged to engage with painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, lens-based and time-based media to expand the possibilities and opportunities inherent to your individual practice. The course is designed to cultivate your technical expertise and creative thinking, and to equip you with the necessary skills to excel as a Fine Artist in the Creative Industries.

You will develop your unique visual language making use of specialist techniques and processes whilst being informed by the contextual concerns and interests that are individual to you. At Chester, we support you in fostering a critical understanding of art's role in contemporary society; what you think, what you say, what you make, how you make it and how it is received are all questions you will consider and navigate.

Our studio projects ask you to visually experiment and innovate, and you will gain increasing autonomy and confidence in the development of your ideas and your practice. You will be supported and guided by expert academic and technical staff in social learning studio spaces and workshops. You will produce work that challenges perceptions and speaks to both personal and global issues making work that is significant to you and to your audience.

As you learn and collaborate with students across Art, Design & Innovation, you'll not only widen your social and professional network but also learn new skills that will underpin your success as a World Ready graduate.

For the latest example of curriculum availability on this degree programme please refer to the University of Chester's Website.

The Fine Art course employs a broad range of assessment methods that are applied to a variety of assessment tasks and outcomes. You are assessed through coursework, there are no written exams.

Studio practice projects and modules will see you developing both supporting artwork and resolved artwork in two and three dimensions, work that is time-based or performative or that is site-specific, site-responsive or installation based.

A Studio Journal (Level 4), Reflective Journal, (Level 5) and Contextual Research Journal, (Level 6) will accompany the Studio Practice, enriching and informing the conversation that surrounds it.

Written work will include essays, journals and reports and some modules have components which are assessed through student presentations.

Assessment is embedded, continuous and authentic. Continuous in as much as formative assessment occurs at regular intervals, whether that be at the end of a project or simply during a tutorial in the studio, with summative assessment at the end of a series of projects or the completion of a module. Assessment is authentic in as much as the premise, language, task, timeframe and output asked of the student replicate those experienced by Fine Artists working professionally.