Fine Art BA (Hons)

Introduction Our Fine Art BA is a dynamic course that guides you in imagining, investigating, experimenting and communicating your creative ideas. You will work in dedicated studio spaces to create artworks where thinking is explored through making. Opportunities to present work in progress to your peers and staff in a project space allow the testing out of your ideas in a friendly, supportive environment. Access to specialist workshops, staffed by technical demonstrators, enables experimentation with a range of contemporary, digital and traditional materials and processes. Staff are experienced arts practitioners working in varied contexts. Whether working in collage, installation, sculpture, performance, text, or digital media you will enhance your creativity, and develop composition, communication, collaboration and critical skills. Professional skills are acquired through presenting your artwork in public exhibitions and producing proposal documents. You are encouraged to consider the context of your work through a university-located fine art placement or studio- based artist residency. The course supports you to research, self-motivate, communicate, collaborate, organise and plan – skills transferable to varied roles within the creative industries. Prepare for your career Across the three years of study, the Fine Art BA(Hons) will enable you to: turn an idea into something tangible, understanding that often through the process of engaging with materials, making gives rise to new ideas develop tenacity and self-motivation: one of the most fundamental aspects of art practice critically evaluate your own and others’ work with an open mind. be resourceful and resilient project manage – your time, resources and logistics collaborate and work as part of a team understand different audiences and contexts consider a proposal or brief from all angles, including its ethical aspects use professional practice skills to be entrepreneurial and enterprising.