Course Overview

From the outset, Fine Art students work using diverse processes and methods, with critical and contextual studies, drawing, object making, and online and time-based media integral to learning. In your first year, you review your previous experience and engage with art-making through personal experimentation, workshops, and set projects. In your second year, ongoing critical inquiry develops your individual 'language'. This is consolidated in the third year through the development of work for public exhibition and of the curatorial skills required to present your own and others' practices. The course focuses, throughout, on individual progress and on supporting you to explore and articulate your own work and your aspirations for it: the aim is to enable you to become confident about presenting your practice and ideas to others - a vital skill when you graduate.

Graduates from the Fine Arts aspect of the course have had success in a variety of careers in the arts as well. Increasingly, graduates are undertaking a variety of freelance commissions. Often they progress to setting up their own creative businesses or undertaking postgraduate study at some of the UK's most prestigious institutions. Illustrators are in increasing demand as the media industries expand.

Options for the professional illustrator include newspapers and magazines, books, advertising, exhibiting independent work, television, and the internet. All these fields are potential showcases for graduates' work. Our interdisciplinary approach gives flexibility and a wider view of the world that is attractive to employers. Graduates will find career opportunities not only in illustration but also in television motion graphics, graphic design, story writing, studio management, and advertising.

General Eligibility

112 UCAS tariff points (single and joint honors), including a minimum grade C at A2 English

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• The IELTS score for international applicants is 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each component).