Fine Art | Full-time BA (Hons) Degree

An introduction to the creative and technical use of a wide range of fine art processes within the disciplines of: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and broad based fine art practices.

You will be provided with practical inductions to techniques associated with these disciplines and will be encouraged to explore the potential inherent in a range of methods and materials enabling you to make choices about how to proceed independently in the creative production of your own studio based work.

This unit introduces you to the basic principles and skills of your chosen specialist or non-specialist area and enable you to develop observational, analytical and expressive skills within Fine Art. The development of ideas and concepts through drawing and visual research will be central to this unit and you will be encouraged to explore the relationship between the themes explored in your work and the processes undertaken.

A self-directed exploratory study that will enable you to further develop observational, analytical and expressive practical skills within a wide range of possible areas of Fine Art.

Exploring the relationship between the themes and processes, your work will be developed through a studio based project exploring formal and abstract issues within a contemporary artistic context.

This unit aims to integrate theory into practice through a series of themed lectures, seminars, study skills sessions, workshops and study visits. It addresses key theories relevant to your studio practice programme and supports the development of contextual knowledge of both Contemporary and Historical Art.

This unit is designed to help you to start to develop the knowledge and skills to promote yourself and your work in a professional context including the use of digital platforms and social media with regard to netiquette and the principles of General Data Protection Regulations.

You'll focus on acquiring knowledge and developing awareness of a range of specialised opportunities available to practicing fine artists by visiting local/national galleries and researching opportunities for future employment.

This unit will encourage speculative enquiry, creative experimentation and the exploratory potential of two distinct areas of fine art practice based on a self-written research proposal.

You'll develop creative and technical skills in two chosen fine art processes, demonstrating a questioning attitude to your own preconceptions and the existing conventions within your studio practice.

This unit allows for progression from the Exploratory Practice unit by encouraging you to focus on your chosen pathway within fine art. The Confirmatory Project allows for a greater certainty in the direction of your work for the final level of the course.

The translating of perceptual experience into visual constructs will continue along with research into the wider environment and resulting in the production of a body of work using the fine art processes you have selected.

You'll be introduced to a number of key theoretical approaches and critical perspectives, focusing on contemporary art and directly relating to your own developing studio practice.You will look at, think about, discuss, question, argue over, write about and share a developing understanding of a range of perspectives on contemporary art practice.

This unit is designed to encourage you to promote yourself and your work in a professional context online and using social media. You'll focus on acquiring knowledge of a range of specialised opportunities available to practicing fine artists and the development of digital skills crucial to self-promotion.

By taking part in and researching current exhibitions you will build on level 4 gallery research and consider opportunities for your own future employment.

The primary focus of this unit is for you to develop an expansive body of experimental and exploratory work together with extensive visual and contextual research which will inform, support and underpin the Major Project & Degree Show.

You will write a proposal which reviews and further extends your area of concern, refines your approach to research and outlines realistic objectives to be achieved chosen from a range of approaches to Fine Art, relevant to your ambitions for the final degree show exhibition.

The focus of this unit is to produce a coherent body of work that is informed and underpinned by the Minor Project. You will primarily focus on the resolution of existing aims and objectives rather than investigate new areas of concern.

You will write both a research proposal, clarifying your intentions for the unit and a statement about your work for public display.

You will make use of appropriate resources culminating in a coherent presentation of your work, selected from a wide range of possible approaches to Fine Art, for the final degree show exhibition.

A creative research project which provides an opportunity for you to develop a sustained critical and analytical investigation of an agreed subject area. It should demonstrate an awareness of issues and debates relevant to your studio practice and may develop ideas already raised in the Creative Research modules at Level 4 and Level 5.

This unit is designed to assist you in the promotion of yourself, your work and your degree show in a professional context online using various appropriate digital platforms and through the creation of promotional material.

You'll focus on the development of your online presence and the practical experience of a focused choice of specialised opportunities available to your particular practice as a fine artist by taking part in exhibitions, as well as consolidating opportunities for your own future employment.

It will also address the curatorial process, and reference it as a growing sector for fine artists to be involved in. There will be analysis and project planning workshops that will allow you to understand how your work will be subject to the curator and how the role of the curator is becoming a central consideration for the fine artist.