HE, three years, full-time, day-time
Higher Education
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Course Validated by the Open University.
Course Contact
Sheila Gaffney
Telephone
0113 202 8000
UCAS code
W100
About
This broad-based course will help you to develop your work with an informed professional awareness. Thanks to the distinctive design of the core course modules, it offers an expansive and critically informed approach to fine- art practice, encouraging a crossover between the making of art and the ideas which inform it. Throughout the programme, the emphasis is on learning to work professionally as artists.
Embracing the diversity of twenty-first- century art practices, this course explores drawing, painting, sculpture, lens-based media, printmaking, installation and performance, with an emphasis on professional, public-facing experience.
As part of our growing creative community, you’ll be based in studios and workshops at our Blenheim Walk building, and will have the opportunity to work with professional artists. You will also receive ongoing support from staff who have a wide range of practical and academic expertise.
First year
Here, you will have the opportunity to acquire and develop new techniques, processes, skills, approaches and understanding. As well as advancing your art practice, these will prepare you for developing your work in response to different contexts and environments.
Modules include:
• Fine Art Practices 1
• Fine Art, The Individual & The Social
• Materials & Processes
• Fine Art Practices 2
• Fine Art & Place
• Personal & Professional Practice 1.
Second year
You will reinforce the development of your studio practice through tutorials and critiques, developing your professionalism with supporting modules focusing on artists’ strategies and exhibition practice.
Modules include:
• Thinking through Practice 1
• Thinking through Practice 2
• Personal & Professional Development
• Material Processes
• Responsive Project.
Third year
You will establish a critical position as an emerging professional artist, undertaking an agreed project in the form of a public exhibition and an extensive research project.
Modules include:
• Context of Practice 3
• Personal & Professional Practice 3
• Extended Practice.
Working with industry
In addition to their own course-driven projects, previous groups of students have created exhibitions and taken part in arts initiatives outside the College as part of live professional practice.
Study visits
Students are invited on cultural visits to galleries, exhibitions and events of interest appropriate to the course. These have included visits abroad and one-day excursions within the UK.
Resources
You will have access to our specialist workshops after the appropriate induction. These workshops include print-making (including textiles), ceramics, clay/plaster, photography, computers & multimedia, wood, metal and plastics.
Progression & career opportunities
Graduates in Fine Art undertake a variety of careers, including independent art practice, community arts, curatorship and teaching as well as further study at master’s and doctorate level.
Awards
Kenneth Armitage Award 2009/2011
Bursary winner, Princess Drawing School
Departure Gallery Art Prize 2011
Finalist, Woolgather Art Prize 2011
Finalist, “Show Me the Money” BBC2 2011
Winner, Art Idol 2010
Winner, Northern Design Competition photography category 2010
Best in Show Award, Leeds Art Fair 2010
Northern Art Show 2009.
Mature students (21+)
We welcome applications from students who are returning to education. We offer many opportunities for adults even if you don’t have conventional entry qualifications. We’re interested in your motivation, your potential, and your ability to follow the course successfully.
Course fees & costs
See course fees page and find out if you qualify for any support. Additionally, you should allow for further costs throughout the course which will vary according to your own approach and your own chosen media. There are also costs each year related to educational trips and visits; these vary, but are planned well in advance and plenty of notice is given.
Find out more
- Contact our Student Advice Team
- Visit the College at one of our open events
- Contact our Marketing department on 0113 202 8000
How to apply
UCAS code W100
The closing date for applications is Saturday 15 January 2012. Visit our how to apply section.
The College is currently unable to accept direct entry onto Year 2 of this course
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