Fine Art (with placement year) BA (Hons)

Our Fine Arts BA (Hons) degree offers an exciting way for you to investigate, participate in, and contribute ideas to, the field of contemporary art.It uses both practical and theoretical classes to develop your unique and individual artistic abilities, and fosters your creative skills by developing your critical and analytical insight.The Fine Arts degree emphasises the relationship between thinking and making, enabling cognitive skills to be intrinsic to studio-based practice, where exceptional facilities and expertise supports a range of fine art practices, ranging from drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, moving image, installation and photography to performance practices.With particular focus on the connections between art, culture and politics, in relation to the public sphere, sustainability, environmental aesthetics, and identity in a global community, a degree in Fine Arts provides you with a wide array of transferable skills and employment opportunities within a wide sphere of the creative industries.Alongside the freedom to express your imaginative ideas using a variety of media, the Fine Arts degree is fully supported by practising artists and research intensive staff who help develop your thinking, respond to your work and challenge you to understand the wider cultural and critical fields within which it resides. We have strong connections with LU Arts, Loughborough University’s arts programme, who work closely with the Fine Art course, offering opportunities to participate in events, artists’ talks and exhibitions.