Why choose this course?

Ranked 16th in the Guardian League Tables 2025. Fine Art, covers painting, sculpture, printmaking, conceptual and social practice, film, video, photography, performance and installation.

Each area is supported by specialist tutors and facilities. The Fine Art course is located in the purpose-built George Wallis building, which opened in 1970, however there has been an Art School in Wolverhampton since 1851 and we are very proud of this heritage. We are situated on the 6th and 7th floors in studios recently refurbished for British Art Show 9. You will have studio space of your own and join a stimulating community of fine art practitioners where you can test ideas and discuss decisions/motivations/media processes in relation to your individually negotiated themes and practices. Our vibrant, well used studio becomes the base for your increasingly independent and personally-focused learning.

What happens on the course?

The Fine Art course aims to offer an open ended and practice–led approach to learning with students working from conceptual ideas through to the tools and materials of studio production. The course aims to fuse practical and material led practice with critical and contextual exploration. This fusion will enable you to develop a sustainable model of practice as a professional artist and teach you a range of transferable skills relevant to careers in the creative industries. At all levels of the course, you will work alongside practicing artists and researchers who aim to teach through their specialist fields.

The course aims to:

Encourage you to explore different media relevant to the development of your own work.

Support you to acquire knowledge and practical experience of working in painting, sculpture, printmaking, conceptual and social practice, film video, photography, performance and installation.

Provide you with the opportunity to observe, discuss and take part in a sustainable model of studio-based practice alongside artist/practitioners who are engaged in their own work.

Enable you to develop an individually negotiated Fine Art practice informed by a relevant theoretical and contextual framework.

Develop critical and analytical skills in historical and critical research and writing.

Understand and locate your work appropriately within the broad and specialist contexts of your subject and research appropriate to your personal and career objectives.