About your course
This is a brief overview of what you will study each year:
Year 1
In full-time mode, your first year focuses on understanding and working with different models as a fine artist, ensuring you have exposure to all the different workshops and facilities available to you.
- You will be supported towards establishing a self-directed practice, namely identifying, resourcing, and making work independently
- You will be introduced to a range of media, their capacities, histories, and implications
- You will be introduced to global visual cultures and their fruitful intersections with artistic practices
- You will begin to orient yourself within art’s complex ecologies.
Year 2
In your second year, you will diversify and expand your skills, developing a deeper awareness of the critical demands of contemporary art.
- You will develop your visual and material language as you experiment in your studio practice.
- You will explore key concepts and debates in global art, using research and writing to begin to consolidate your thinking and situate your practice in contemporary contexts
- This year includes options to study on the international exchange programme.
- You will gain hands-on experience of curating and exhibiting
- You will continue your investigation into art’s ecologies by undertaking and reflecting on a short placement.
Year 3
The final year of your degree enables you to consolidate and refine your art, developing your practice to a professional level.
- You will gain confidence in presenting your work professionally, using purposefully chosen platforms and media, in preparation for a career in the arts
- Your research into art and visual culture becomes self-directed, giving you the opportunity to research a topic of your choice under expert supervision
- You will continue to gain hands-on experience of curating and exhibiting, culminating in your degree show.
Modules