BA (Hons) Fine Art
Norwich, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
GBP 17,500 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* we recommend that applicants apply by April of the year they are applying, but we will accept applications up until the end of August in exceptional circumstances
** non-UK students: £17,500 | UK students: £9,250
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Introduction
Explore your creativity, ideas and instincts in a vibrant community of artists, makers and thinkers at NUA, one of the UK’s longest-established Fine Art degrees.
Our BA (Hons) Fine Arts degree course encourages ‘thinking through making’ and you will explore the breadth of fine art with workshops in painting, print, sculpture, mixed media and video. You will use project spaces and external venues for performance, display and curation.
You will shape your own distinctive career path as an artist on our BA (Hons) course and join generations of graduates who have achieved national and international success.
Our graduates are renowned for their unique voice and vision, leading them to Turner Prize nomination and inclusion in the UK’s annual New Contemporaries exhibition.
Explore Fine Art
Whatever your choice of medium, we will encourage and support you to develop your own practice and develop a substantial portfolio.
Purpose-built studio spaces will provide the perfect environment to realise your creative direction.
You’ll have access to the tools you need to make and create, including:
- Printmaking facilities
- 3D studios and a foundry
- Our historic Munnings Life Drawing Studio
- Painting studios
- Augmented and Virtual Reality.
Admissions
Curriculum
Year 1
- An emphasis on 'thinking through making' using traditional and new media techniques will help you identify your artistic interests
- Comprehensive workshop inductions
- Grow your understanding of critical theories such as psychoanalysis and aesthetics
- Visit galleries and events nationally and internationally
- Contextualise your work and think more practically about the audience
- Exhibit in the NUA Project Spaces
- Explore collaborative, collective and socially engaged approaches
- Introduction to the 12 essential skills of the Fine Art innovative programme.
Year 2
- Workshops in either painting, print, sculpture, mixed media or video
- External exhibitions, publications or placement
- Learn advanced drawing techniques
- Opportunities to use project spaces and external venues for experimentation, collaboration, display, critique, curation, performance and discussion.
Year 3
- Prepare a comprehensive Research Report related to your practice
- Regular student-led presentations for sharing individual practice
- Professional practice conference
- Graduate Showcase, viewed by curators, collectors, buyers and gallery owners
Gallery
Career Opportunities
Professional Preparation
Your creative development will include gaining valuable professional skills related to promoting and selling your work, curation, contracts, costing and networking.
Opportunities will emerge through the course team’s close links with regional and national galleries like Tate Modern, Wysing Arts Centre, Firstsite, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and OUTPOST.
Graduates work in a broad range of careers including
- Practising Artist
- Community Artist
- Exhibition Organiser
- Arts Administrator
- Lecturer Art Consultant
- Gallery Manager
- Researcher
- Curator
- Teacher
- Image Retoucher
- Art Handler
You’ll also get specialist creative careers advice from our team in the Ideas FactoryNUA to help support you as you plan your career.