From painting and sculpture through to performance and the moving image, there are lots of ways you can express yourself creatively. Our Contemporary Art BA(Hons) course gives you the opportunity to learn about current fine art techniques and practices in a stimulating environment. As the course is flexible, there’s plenty of scope to find the best route for you.
However you like to get creative, we want you to become highly skilled in your chosen approach. And no matter how complex or ambitious your ideas, we’ll give you the support and expertise to help you get them down on paper, film or whatever other media you’re using.
Our studios are inspiring places, where you’ll be encouraged to work both collaboratively and independently. We’ll give you the chance to experiment, to realise your ideas and to work on your professional presentation skills too.
By the end of the course you should have built up transferable skills to help you secure a great career.
We’ll encourage you to see your work in context. We’ll introduce you to the current debates and issues in the contemporary art scene and you might be able to go on field trips too. Art doesn’t happen in a vacuum after all! In recent years our students have visited The Whitechapel Gallery in London, Tate Liverpool, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Hepworth Wakefield.
The course is part of a suite of three courses that includes Contemporary Art and Illustration BA(Hons) and Illustration BA(Hons). Whichever one you enrol on, you can switch to any of the other two courses while you’re here, with the agreement of your tutor. We really are truly flexible, as we want you to develop your own path.
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Following the course you may opt for further study, or could consider a career as an artist, curator, or a role in community arts, the media or design for example. Our graduates have won awards and prizes such as the Northern Graduates Prize, The Alternative Turner Prize, and New Sensations (a joint venture between the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4). They've also gone on to work for companies such as East Street Arts, Leicestershire Craft Centre, Pyramid of Arts and Studio 116 Design.**
* Percentage of graduates from this course who are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 17/18, UK domiciled graduates)
**Source: GEMS
Insurance-Single: 300 GBP/year
