BA (Hons) Fine Art

Duration

3 years

Institution code

L28

UCAS Code

W100

Amelia Clamp
Amelia Clamp

Amelia Clamp

Amelia Klein
Amelia Klein

Amelia Klein

Hannah Conway
Hannah Conway

Hannah Conway

Immie Tuit-Sterling
Immie Tuit-Sterling

Immie Tuit-Sterling

Isa Walker
Isa Walker

Isa Walker

Jordan Smith
Jordan Smith

Jordan Smith

Nikhita Satchell
Nikhita Satchell

Nikhita Satchell

Rebecca Cardwell
Rebecca Cardwell

Rebecca Cardwell

Sophie Heldt
Sophie Heldt

Sophie Heldt

Tracy Law
Tracy Law

Tracy Law

The Course

This course has studio communities and facilities for painting, sculpture, and performance and digital practices. Led by an experienced team of practising artists you will learn how to explore, navigate, and define your own specialism. 

You are encouraged to pursue your individual interests through tutorials, seminars, workshops, and group critiques; while engaging in wider social, political, cultural, environmental, economic, technological contexts and contemporary issues.  

Located in our purpose-built studios and aligned to painting, sculpture, or performance and digital, you will develop a strong artist identity shaped by your specialism and any interdisciplinary approaches you take. Access to workshops and facilities, specialist staff, mixed discipline and cross year critiques, and opportunities to collaborate ensure that you can challenge the boundaries of your practice.

Throughout the course there is an emphasis on technical skill and critical thought that synthesises thinking and making. You will acquire a range of creative and technical strategies to support the development and sustainability of your creative practice. Through exhibition proposals, projects, and collaborations you will develop the essential skills and experience you need as a practicing artist, expand your networks, and make lifelong contacts.

We have several cultural institutions on our doorstep and make regular visits to galleries and exhibitions which have included Leeds Art Gallery, the Henry Moore Institute, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and The Hepworth. National and international trips have included events such as the Venice Biennale. We also have a programme of visiting practitioners who engage in a range of arts practices and roles within arts organisations.

The Structure

Your first year focuses on community building, making, and experimentation. Through a range of introductory workshops, seminars, and critiques you will explore materials and processes alongside developing your critical thinking.

Course Facilities

BA (Hons) Fine Art students are based in our purpose-built studios in communities aligned to painting, sculpture, or performance and digital and are given their own dedicated space in which to work.

Students will have access to a wide range of resources with a drop-in facility so work can be undertaken, provided resource inductions have been completed. For Fine Art students this will include 3D resources housed in dedicated workshops providing students with a hands-on experience over five main areas; wood, metal, laser-cutting and plastics, casting, ceramic and glass; print resources which provide excellent facilities for bookmaking and paper-based printmaking using a range of processes; and professional-standard, large-format digital printing and print finishing and a vinyl cutter enabling designs to be cut from many types of vinyl.

Fine Art students will also be able to borrow a range of photography equipment including digital SLR cameras for still and moving image, lighting, and a range of support equipment, which can be used in our lighting studios or off-site. Computer suites house networks of Apple Mac computers featuring regularly updated, industry-standard software for a wide range of creative applications that support all our courses and a purpose-built specialist library which includes including special collections of artists’ books, photobooks and illustrated books as well as the University archive. Self service facilities are available throughout, supported by a dedicated and experienced team of library staff.

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Study Abroad

Studying abroad can help Leeds Arts University students gain valuable experience, broaden their horizons, develop international networks and experience their practice from a different perspective. Leeds Arts University has a global network of international partner universities in 15 different countries. Students can apply for a semester abroad in their second year of study.

Accolades

Our students win many prestigious awards and prizes. Recently, these have included:

  • Associate Artists for Yorkshire Sculpture International

  • Winner Ingram Collection Purchase Prize

  • The Kenneth Armitage Student Sculpture Award

  • The British Art Medal Project Award

  • Aon Community Art Awards

  • Winner of The Northern Art Show Award Bursary

  • Winner of The Drawing Year at Royal Drawing School

Our students have also been shortlisted for the Royal British Society of Artists Rome Scholarship, John Moores Painting Prize, The Lynn Painters and Stainers’ British Painting Prize and the Royal Academy Summer Show.

Career Opportunities

Graduates go into a wide variety of careers including independent art practice, community arts, curating, arts management, arts therapies, and teaching. Graduates also continue to postgraduate study.

Academic Staff

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Dr Jo Neil

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Course Leader

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Gabi Boiangiu

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Senior Lecturer

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Dr Paula Chambers

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Subject Leader

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Liadin Cooke

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Lecturer

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Amelia Crouch

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Lecturer

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Nicola Dale

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Senior Lecturer

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Dr Ralph Darbyshire

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Subject Leader

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April Virgoe

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Senior Lecturer

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