This 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 allow you to test 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.
We offer two other undergraduate courses within our fine art subject area.
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Year 1
In the first year you are introduced to studio practice and explore the relationship between thinking and making in a supportive and friendly environment. An expansive approach to research enables you to explore different methods of articulating your ideas and documenting your work.
You'll develop your emerging fine art practice within the studio and in relation to a specific site or sites. There is an emphasis on material exploration and experimentation and work is challenged through critical discussions and debate, building confidence in articulating your practice.
You will be introduced to key institutions, roles and terms within the expanded world of contemporary art and learn to navigate and discuss complex ideas and issues which increases your understanding and builds a collective vocabulary.
Modules
Studio Practice 1: Thinking and Making
Studio Practice 2: Making and Site
Contemporary Art Institutional Roles and Terms
Introduction to Theories and Practices of Fine Art
Year 2
In your second year you'll continue to advance your fine art practice through explorative and practical approaches. You develop the visual, written and spoken communication skills to present your work to varied audiences. There is a greater emphasis on considering the context, form and cultural framing of your work and on the professional skills associated with proposal making, documentation of artworks and exhibition making.
The second-year public exhibition teaches you to present a resolved work in a group exhibition, to negotiate, to work as part of a team and to practice key roles associated with exhibition making. The fine art placement / residency provides opportunities to develop your thinking, planning and negotiation skills to work in new contexts.
The option module allows you to explore topics from across the School of Art.
Modules
Studio Practice 3: Proposals and Public Exhibition
Studio Practice 4: Practice-led Research
Theories and Practices of Fine Art: Contexts and Specialisms in a Post-digital World
School of Art option module*
*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.
Final year
In your final year you'll develop and consolidate your art practice and extend your technical skills base through the creation of a body of work. Research situates your practice in relevant contexts and professional skills are developed to support future ambitions.
You synthesise your previous learning, test your ideas practically, write proposals and work towards a final degree show exhibition. There is a strong emphasis on documenting your practice, writing a CV and artist statement, and on placing your work in critically informed contexts. This helps you to prepare for postgraduate study and careers within the creative industries.
Studio Practice 5: Consolidating and Situating Practice
Studio Practice 6: Public Exhibition and Professional Practice
Theories and Practices of Fine Art: Articulation of your critical position
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
