Fine Art - BA (Hons)

Year One

Curiosity: Introducing Fine Art Practice (120 credit points)

The emphasis is on developing self-directed study, beginning with a series of workshops to kick-start your practice and help you to settle into your studies, allowing you to meet staff and fellow students. Explore with a sense of curiosity, creating work quickly and developing your ideas into more focused, self-negotiated fine art practice.

Deepen your awareness of the critical and professional contexts of fine art, and through project proposals and planning you’ll be introduced to the skills required for professional practice. Record and reflect on your work throughout the year to assemble a research portfolio.

Year Two

Speculation: Developing Fine Art Practice (120 credit points)Continue to develop your art practice in a chosen medium or combination of media areas. You’ll work more independently than in Year One, selecting an appropriate work space and developing a studio culture that suits your practice. Seminars will provide opportunities for lively debate on your work and the contexts it relates to.

The public project will help you to develop skills relating to professional practice, developing networks and contacts outside of the University. As in Year One, you’ll continue to document and reflect upon your work, assembling a research portfolio for assessment.

Final year

Resolution: Final Practice and Reflection (120 credit points)You’ll work independently towards a deeper understanding and resolution of your own practice. Identify and critically apply the questions, problems, methods and processes that are uniquely appropriate to your practice. In this module, there is an emphasis on making and staging your work within a professional contemporary art context. At the end of the module, you’ll exhibit or platform your work in our final Degree Show.