Fine Art, BA (Hons), with industry placement

This studio-centred fine arts degree promotes independent inquiry and is delivered by practising artists, featuring an outstanding programme of visiting speakers, exceptional academic and technical support in disciplines like painting, sculpture, printmaking, and digital media, as well as collaborative opportunities with partners such as Tate Exchange.The course fosters critical and reflective practice through tutorials, workshops, and lectures. In Year 1, students experiment with materials and processes; Year 2 develops conceptual strategies and external projects; and the final year emphasises ambitious work for a public degree show. Assessments include ongoing formative feedback and summative evaluations like exhibitions or presentations. A Professional Placement Year offers 9-13 months of external work experience, with bursaries for support.

In Year 1 experimentation with materials, techniques and processes are foregrounded. You’ll establish a way of working that is playful and analytical; through this process you’ll begin to recognise what themes are emerging in your work. Year 2 is a pivotal period of development in which you are supported to progress your ideas, conceptual strategies and processes. You are encouraged to develop an awareness of the debates that surround your practice and continually test its boundaries. Off site exhibitions, projects and other initiatives will support you to consider work beyond the studio. In your final year, you’ll build upon their ideas you explore in years 1 and 2. Greater emphasis is placed not only on a body of resolved, considered and well executed work, but also on work that is ambitious and takes risks. At the end of the year you’ll present work in a degree show that is open to the public.