CLASS OF 2024
ABOUT THE FINE ART PROGRAMME
Our BA (Hons) Fine Art course promotes contemporary art practice in its broadest sense. We encourage an ambitious, self-directed and critically engaged approach to creative practice.
Our Fine Art students are ones who relish questioning and are comfortable with not always knowing the answers, they have a hunger to learn, and an ambition in their independent practices. This dynamic course is at it’s core a rigorous, questioning, learning and collaborative experience, - communication is key and this happens throughout the programme, from day one, in visual, verbal, physical, immaterial and material forms.
The course accelerates creative ideas, working in a multidisciplinary environment with access to a range of processes and hybrid practices. Students develop their individual practice within the supportive environment of an independent specialist Art University, with a focus on the intersection of creativity and social justice; exploring interdisciplinary modes of practice and gaining valuable experience of the creative sector creating lasting professional networks for the future.
We currently work with the Tate Exchange programme, with KARST gallery in Plymouth, and with a number of international collaborators such as OTIS College of Art and Design, LA and Alfred University, New York.
The course has an extensive input from visiting lecturers to guarantee a wide range of voices alongside a strong team. In addition to inviting individuals to enrich specific topics such as professional engagement for contemporary fine artists, the visiting lecturers also provide one-to-one tutorials and critiques.
The Universitiy’s on-site public exhibition space, Mirror, also draws a range of national and international artists and exhibitions, allowing students the opportunity to engage with artists through related workshops, talks and screenings.
Graduates from our Fine Art course regularly go on to secure residences and exhibition opportunities at some of the most exciting contemporary physical and digital art spaces – many continue to postgraduate study, take on roles as Art therapist, Curator, Lecturer, Director of arts organization, Community outreach, Archiver, Freelancer, and Producer.
The BA (Hons) Fine Art course teaches students to take risks, and not to be afraid of failing. This situates them in the world as active agents, and instils in them a sense of themselves as artists, thinkers and makers.
Sarah King
Senior Lecturer & Subject Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art
with the Fine Art team, Helen Billinghurst, Loiuse Fago-Ruskin, Joanne Dorethea Smith, Paul Hillon.
Our BA (Hons) Fine Art course promotes contemporary art practice in its broadest sense. We encourage an ambitious, self-directed and critically engaged approach to creative practice.
Our Fine Art students are ones who relish questioning and are comfortable with not always knowing the answers, they have a hunger to learn, and an ambition in their independent practices. This dynamic course is at it’s core a rigorous, questioning, learning and collaborative experience, - communication is key and this happens throughout the programme, from day one, in visual, verbal, physical, immaterial and material forms.
The course accelerates creative ideas, working in a multidisciplinary environment with access to a range of processes and hybrid practices. Students develop their individual practice within the supportive environment of an independent specialist Art University, with a focus on the intersection of creativity and social justice; exploring interdisciplinary modes of practice and gaining valuable experience of the creative sector creating lasting professional networks for the future.
We currently work with the Tate Exchange programme, with KARST gallery in Plymouth, and with a number of international collaborators such as OTIS College of Art and Design, LA and Alfred University, New York.
The course has an extensive input from visiting lecturers to guarantee a wide range of voices alongside a strong team. In addition to inviting individuals to enrich specific topics such as professional engagement for contemporary fine artists, the visiting lecturers also provide one-to-one tutorials and critiques.
The Universitiy’s on-site public exhibition space, Mirror, also draws a range of national and international artists and exhibitions, allowing students the opportunity to engage with artists through related workshops, talks and screenings.
Graduates from our Fine Art course regularly go on to secure residences and exhibition opportunities at some of the most exciting contemporary physical and digital art spaces – many continue to postgraduate study, take on roles as Art therapist, Curator, Lecturer, Director of arts organization, Community outreach, Archiver, Freelancer, and Producer.
The BA (Hons) Fine Art course teaches students to take risks, and not to be afraid of failing. This situates them in the world as active agents, and instils in them a sense of themselves as artists, thinkers and makers.
Sarah King
Senior Lecturer & Subject Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art
with the Fine Art team, Helen Billinghurst, Loiuse Fago-Ruskin, Joanne Dorethea Smith, Paul Hillon.
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