Fine Art BA (Hons)
Teesside University, Middlesbrough
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

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**Available for September or January intakes.**To apply for January 2024 intake, amend the cycle filter to 2023-2024, select the option for January and remember to use point of entry 1. If you experience any issues adding your course choice, please contact UCAS Customer Services on 0371 468 0 468.**Course overview**: A fine art degree course at Teesside University provides studio-based learning that allows you to specialise in painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and/or new ...Read more


Available for September or January intakes.

To apply for January 2024 intake, amend the cycle filter to 2023-2024, select the option for January and remember to use point of entry 1. If you experience any issues adding your course choice, please contact UCAS Customer Services on 0371 468 0 468.


Course overview

: A fine art degree course at Teesside University provides studio-based learning that allows you to specialise in painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and/or new media.Develop your work as an artist from drawing to digital media, bookbinding to printmaking, screens to sculpture, canvases to community projects. We support all art forms – you have access to industry-standard technical workshops and are taught by practising artists and curators.By studying a fine art degree here at Teesside University, you have your own studio for the duration of your course - a personal space to make, experiment and think critically about your work in a supportive environment with your peer community. Working both on your own and in teams, you can specialise or cultivate multimedia exhibitions. You gain insight from visiting international artists, and learn effective research and reflection techniques.You study at our School of Arts & Creative Industries, led by Teesside University and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), an international contemporary museum and gallery. You gain a full artistic experience, learning in a social space that inspires dynamic ideas, fuels collaboration and allows you to build local, national and international networks with industry professionals for your future fine art career.


Top reasons to study this course

:1. As an art gallery and a university, our students contribute to making a museum, not just taking a degree course.2. You are taught by accomplished and award-winning practising artists, writers and curators.3. You work in your own individual studio with lots of space to develop your ideas.


After the course

: This fine art degree develops your artistic and professional skills, preparing you for a career as an artist, curator, primary or secondary teacher, or art therapist. You can work in roles across the cultural sector - museums and galleries, community wellbeing and education projects, creatives businesses of all kinds. Fine art graduates move forward into an increasingly broad range of professional futures including postgraduate study in visual art at Teesside University and education through Graduate Teacher Training and Recruitment, acquire sponsored fellowships and arts-based residencies (facilitated by DigitalCity and Tees Valley Arts), develop independent practice through locally based studio groups (Saltburn Artist Projects, Navigator North and Platform Arts), work as curators for gallery-based exhibitions (The Heritage Gallery and Python Gallery), take advantage of local and regional opportunities for additional professional development (a-n and Arts Council England, North East) and, as self-employed artists, become professional cultural practitioners.

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41st
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92nd
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Drop-out rate
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Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 80 = 20% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
20%
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95%
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Art graduate salary at this uni
£18,000
UK Art graduate salary
£17,000
What students say
SR
Student Reviewer
02 Mar 19

I’m overall happy, just wish said things could be better. Wish uni could provide more materials so we don’t have to burn our wallets. But I like the support and..Read more

SR
Student Reviewer
28 Feb 19

Overall uni experience has been good. Been rocky but good. Tutors are great. Theres plenty of things to do in your spare time. I look forward to my last year next..Read more

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96 - 112 Grades / Points required

Including a creative subject, from any combination of recognised Level 3 qualifications.

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£9,250 per year

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£17,000 per year

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SR
Student Reviewer
02 Mar 19
Fine Art BA (Hons)
I’m overall happy, just wish said things could be better. Wish uni could provide more materials so we don’t have to burn our wallets. But I like the support and...
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SR
Student Reviewer
28 Feb 19
Fine Art BA (Hons)
Overall uni experience has been good. Been rocky but good. Tutors are great. Theres plenty of things to do in your spare time. I look forward to my last year next...
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Teesside University, Middlesbrough
Teesside University, Middlesbrough , Tees Valley

Based on its vibrant campus in the heart of Middlesbrough in North East England, Teesside University is a friendly, modern...

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Teesside University, Middlesbrough
Borough Road Middlesbrough Stockton-On-Tees TS1 3BX United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Middlesbrough  0.4 miles away

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