Your studies will be a combination of studio practices, theory, critical involvement with culture, society, and artistic practices. As well as  developing your critical and creative skills, you will graduate with a range of transferable skills preparing you for a wide range of careers. Many of our graduates have gone on to work as curators, art therapists, researchers, writers, photographers, and many more.

Benefit from the teachings of cutting-edge and multi-disciplinary artists, theorists and curators, including artist Keith Piper, (founder member of the ground breaking BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students), Alexandra Kokoli author of the Feminist Uncanny, artist Ergin Cavusoglu and others. Our outstanding facilities in The Grove, our specialist building for art, design, media and performing arts, are among the best in the country.

You will be given the freedom to explore different types of arts to follow your interests and to shape your own degree. After the first year, you’ll be able to attend specialist seminars leading to one of our distinct pathways:

• BA Fine Art,
• BA Fine Art Social Practice,
• BA Fine Art Multimedia Practice,
• BA Fine Art Critical Practice.

Internationally recognised and respected, BA Fine Art is a broad degree that develops your creative and critical abilities and is a route into a rewarding career as a professional artist. This course also aims to help you develop an extensive range of valuable transferable skills that can lead you in any number of directions after graduation.

The course supports you to develop your independent thinking and problem solving skills, highly useful when entering the job market. Bespoke professional practice modules allows you to gain the skills you need for your chosen field and information about pathways into them.

Our Fine Art graduates are able to think strategically, work flexibly, be highly organised and use their initiative, as well as having excellent written and verbal communication skills so they are highly employable in a broad range of careers. Many students will also have undertaken internships or placements in their chosen fields.

Past graduates have gone on to be successful in a number of fields for example working as an artist, curator, photographer, digital media professional, art therapist, teacher, lecturer, designer, researcher, writer, community art worker, performer, media professional, and entrepreneur.