COURSE OVERVIEW

This is the part-time version of the BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art

• Full-time course length: 3 years
• Part-time (2 days per week) course length: 5 years

This course provides a stimulating creative environment where students can develop their own studio practice as professional artists.

Key features

• Supportive, challenging, creative environment
• Staff are practising artists
• Good progression to employment
• Excellent studios and facilities such as printmaking, life room, 3D crafts workshop, ceramics studio and darkrooms
• On-site and public exhibiting opportunities

During the first part of the course, students explore the range of specialist areas through practical workshops and inductions. For the rest of the course, students may specialise in painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, or use a range of approaches to fine art without specialising in one area.

The course includes workshops, crits and seminars, where students of all specialist areas meet to discuss their work and exchange ideas.

Through talks, discussions, gallery visits and their own research, students develop an awareness of the historical and contemporary context of fine art and the ability to critically evaluate their work and that of their contemporaries.

How will I be assessed?
Assessment methods vary between units but could include:

• presentations (of practical work)
• journals
• research proposal
• sketchbooks/drawings
• written assignments