Painting

Course Structure

Year 1

The focus is on equipping you with both technical and conceptual vocabularies. You will be introduced to key thinkers and ideas as well as to historical and contemporary processes and media. You will make, think, write and speak about your practice and gain an understanding of different methodologies for researching and making. You will begin to set an agenda for your work and to reflect on and evaluate your progress.

A series of key ideas lectures will introduce you to several important debates and theories that underpin contemporary art and design. You will be introduced to a range of strategies to help you develop a research methodology and reflective approach to your studies.

Year 2

This year looks outward, at how work is received in different contexts, and how questions of authorship and reception affect what is made. You will also present and debate your work within the public arena.

Electives - This programme is undertaken by all 2nd year BA students and offers a menu of complementary studies that allows you to broaden your enquiry both in practical terms and in relation to critical and professional contexts. There is the opportunity to strengthen your practice, deepen a particular seam of critical enquiry and expand technical skills in specific media or processes. For example: sound, animation, philosophy, curating, performance.

Year 3

You will be planning, developing and realising your individual, self-initiated programme of study. You will be carrying out sustained practical and contextual research. Through a choice of dissertation, work placement or live project you will explore your practice in depth. You will develop your ideas using an appropriate research-based methodology and work towards a completed body of work, which will prepare you for ongoing study and professional practice.