BA Fine Art
Entry requirements
A level: ABB BTEC: DDM IB: 34 points overall including 16 at Higher Level with 4 in English
About this course
BA in Fine Art, a fine art degree focused on studio practice and visual culture. Core topics include Historical Research. Students have access to a dedicated studio space, specialist workshops, and an exhibition space for their work. The first year establishes fundamental skills through Introduction to Practice, Developing Practice, Ways of Seeing, and Ways of Thinking Seeing. The second year refines methodologies with compulsory modules such as Defining Your Practice and Practice into Public Contexts, alongside optional choices exploring global art histories and markets. The final year centres on the transition to professional exhibition through Practice towards exhibition, supplemented by options investigating photography, postcolonial perspectives, and material culture.
Modules
- Introduction to Practice
- Developing Practice
- Ways of Seeing
- Ways of Thinking Seeing
- Defining Your Practice
- Practice into Public Contexts
- Seeing in Asia
- Variant Modernism
- The Grand Tour: Travels, Excavations, Collections
- The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings
- African Art I: Context Representation Signification
- Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts
- Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe
- Towards the Future
- Practice towards exhibition
- Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study
- Anthropology, Art and Representation
- Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance
- Critical Approaches to Photography
- Postcolonial Feminisms
- Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro
- Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts
- Movies, Migrants and Diasporas