BA in Fine Art
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 9,250 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* only for home students. We will continue to accept applications from international students after the 25th of January
** UK students: £9,250 per year | international: £16,500 for the first year
Introduction
Why choose this course?
This course enables you to experiment and explore your creative potential, preparing you for a career in the visual arts or wider creative industries. You will be able to work with a range of traditional and new technologies, developing your ideas through sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, film/photography, performance and sound.
Kingston School of Art consistently ranks amongst the highest in the UK for Art and Design in the Guardian League Tables.
All students attend a diverse series of professional skills lecturers, practice seminars and artist talks from staff and guest lecturers, sharing knowledge and advice to help you navigate a future career in the creative industries. You will learn how to develop and present your outward-facing profile using key strategic skills for planning, showing, recording and communicating your work.
Students have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of workshops and internal/external live projects, gaining valuable experience in the industry, and working collaboratively and across disciplines. Kingston School of Art has recently worked with organisations including Tate, Stanley Picker Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), William Morris Society and Goldsmiths CCA.
You'll be taught by practising artists, writers and curators in purpose-built, dedicated studios and stunning technical workshops. You'll have opportunities for national and international field trips and study abroad. In choosing to study Fine Art you will become part of an inclusive and progressive community that will support and nurture your progression through to graduation and beyond. Once you graduate, you'll have gained real-life experience and skills and completed a portfolio that will help launch your career.
Reasons to choose Kingston University
- You'll benefit from dedicated studios and stunning technical workshops where you can develop your individual and collaborative creative skills in a range of traditional media and new technologies.
- Professional skills modules will help identify and plan your future career, gain real-life experience, and build a portfolio, which will showcase your talents.
- Kingston is ranked in the top five in London for Art (Guardian University League tables 2022).
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Curriculum
What you will study
This course provides an integrated approach to fine art practice: you'll have the opportunity to study painting, sculpture, printmaking, lens-based media, performance and site-specific activity and new technologies, either in single, unchanging disciplines throughout three years or in combinations.
Modules
Modules focus on making, exhibiting and contextualising art. You'll be introduced to the importance of understanding the value of professionally sharing your practice through exhibiting work and organising exhibitions within the University and at external venues in Kingston and Central London.
Year 1
Year 1 encourages an exploratory approach to fine art. Subject workshops, talks and critiques introduce a wide range of media, technologies and disciplines. You'll undertake independent studio practice, test your ideas, and your use of media and collaborate with your peers. Critical and Historical Studies modules will explore the relationship between written and spoken communications to media and materials.
Core modules
- Introducing Studio Practice
- Professional Skills I
- Contextualising Contemporary Practice: Fine Art
Year 2
In Year 2 you'll develop your individual creative expression and build your interdisciplinary experience and collaborative skills. This includes optional live projects. You'll develop technical skills and explore a wide range of source material in a critical and analytical context.
Core modules
- Developing Studio Practice
- Professional Skills II
- Critical Issues in Fine Art: Research and Practice
Year 3
In Year 3, you'll continue your independent study. Your work will express increasingly subtle and complex visual arguments, reflecting current critical, conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic issues. You'll complete a dissertation, and final portfolio and exhibit your work.
Core modules
- Sustaining Studio Practice
- Professional Skills III
- Dissertation: Research and Reflection
Please note
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
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Career Opportunities
After you graduate
Our students progress to highly-regarded postgraduate and doctoral studies. Alumni develop careers as artists and work across a broad range of domains and institutions including curation, teaching and arts management. As well as exhibiting nationally and internationally, our alumni support their own practices by assisting renowned artists including Anish Kapoor and Ryan Gander or gaining experience with cutting-edge organisations such as ICA, Cell Project Space and Auto-Italia. Our alumni have been featured in the New Contemporaries over the past five years. Amongst our alumni, we can count renowned, prize-winning artists such as Fiona Banner (Tate Britain Duveen commission 2010), Kaye Donachie, Sarah Maple and Sarah McCrory, Director of CCA Goldsmiths and co-judge of the Turner Prize 2014.