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 is 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.

Key Facts

UCAS code: W150

Full-time: 3 years

Entry Requirements

A-levels or BTEC

• A-level BBB–BCC (120–104 UCAS Tariff points) or BTEC Extended Diploma DDM–MMM. Our conditional offers typically fall within this range.

Art foundation diploma

• Pass. A foundation diploma is not a requirement for entry – it is just one of a range of qualifications that are accepted for admission to this course.

International Baccalaureate

• 30 points, with three subjects at a Higher Level.

Access to HE diploma

• Pass with 60 credits overall. Art and design courses preferred. At least 45 credits at level 3, and 30 credits must be at merit or above.

English language requirements

• IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each element.

Career

Our art courses are in the top 20 in the UK, Guardian University Guide 2021.

Across the three years of study, the Fine Art BA(Hons) will enable you to:

• think through making, turning ideas into tangible creative outcomes, understanding that often through the process of engaging with materials and processes, new discoveries are made
• gain skills in working with a range of materials and processes
• plan, organize, and execute exhibitions of artwork for the public audience
• communicate ideas in visual, written, and spoken forms
• develop tenacity, resourcefulness, resilience, and self-motivation: fundamental aspects of sustaining an art practice or working within the creative industries.
• discuss, articulate and critically evaluate your own and others’ artwork.
• plan organize and project manage, your time, your work, resources, and logistics
• develop professional proposal documents that communicate planned work in visual and text form and include ethical and health and safety considerations
• document artworks to communicate art practice to others
• work independently and work as part of a team, collaborate with others on shared tasks
• understand different audiences and contexts when presenting artworks
• use professional practice skills to be proactive, entrepreneurial, and enterprising
• research and analyze topics through practical and contextual inquiry