BA (Hons) Fine Art (Chelsea)

Course detail

Content: what students can expect

• A studio-based and practice-led course that brings together a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, film and video, digital media, sound, print, performance and drawing
• Practice and theory are integrated, helping students understand the contexts and conditions that shape and frame contemporary art practice
• To be allocated a tutor group that they’ll meet on a regular basis to discuss each other’s work
• Significant control over what they learn, the pace they do this at and how they might demonstrate this. Students will be helped in these decisions through on-going dialogue with their tutors as well as fellow students
• To receive inductions into the processes and facilities available in the college’s studios and workshops, with specialist technicians on hand to offer support
• To have access to Chelsea's shared workshops including ceramics, casting, laser cutting, photography, metalwork, woodwork and audio visual editing suite. View the Chelsea facilities section

Structure

Year 1

• Unit 1: Art practice - Exploration
• Unit 2: Art practice - Exploration, part 2
• Unit 3: Introduction to Fine Art
• Unit 4: Induction to Theory

Year 2

• Unit 5: Territories of practice
• Unit 6: Practice in context - exhibition
• Unit 7: Theoretical Contexts
• Unit 8: Theoretical Contexts, part 2

Year 3

• Unit 9: Studio practice 3 - Consolidation
• Unit 10: Dissertation and research portfolio

Work experience and opportunities

Opportunities to work with external partners have included projects and commissions with The Discovery Channel, Frontier Economics and Hitachi Consulting.