Fine Art BA (Hons)

Fine Art is an exciting course that enables you to develop your creative voice, by exploring both, traditional and innovative approaches to contemporary art, reflecting the ever-evolving creative industries. <br/><br/>From day one of this practice-based course, the programme team will encourage you to develop your creativity, by challenging and inspiring you to cultivate your technical, critical reflective and enterprising skills to support you in forging a successful and sustainable career in contemporary art.  <br/><br/>On this studio-based course you:<br/>* Have the opportunity to experiment with digital, intermedia and traditional art forms, within our purposefully designed studios. <br/><br/><br/>* Have access to a range of professional workshops, industry-standard software, photographic and media resources*.<br/><br/><br/>* Will be taught by practising artists and creatives who have exhibited at several prestigious venues across the world. <br/><br/><br/>**Key Course Benefits**<br/>* Fine Art is a leading-edge undergraduate programme that is distinctive and innovative in its approach. It critically positions art practice as a catalyst within society, and artists as ‘activators and activists’ in global, social, cultural, political, economic, and civic contemporary and future contexts.<br/><br/><br/>* This practice-based course will challenge and inspire you to develop your creative, technical, critical, and reflective skills through 2D, 3D and 4D art practice. <br/><br/><br/>* You will gain valuable employability attributes to support you in forging a successful and sustainable career and you will learn how, as a graduate, you can contribute to and expand the roles assigned to artists to initiate cultural change.<br/><br/><br/>* Following the University’s major investment in art and design, Fine Art is located in our state of the art, city centre development. It benefits from a vibrant array of advanced facilities, including world class teaching spaces and technical workshops, innovative technology, multi-use, lens-based, immersive technology, and hyper studios as well as a public gallery space*.<br/><br/><br/>* You will become part of a community of artist practitioners, who taught by practising artists, art historians, and writers who have exhibited and published their work internationally.<br/><br/><br/>* The course offers you lots of different career paths in fine art, and across the creative industries. Past graduates have won the prestigious John Moore’s Painting prize and the ‘Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement; secured positions such as curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, editor of ‘Madame Wang’ an international journal for collaborative arts practice, Cultural Events Organiser for Coventry Cathedral, and had artwork selected for the International Neu/Now Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands. <br/><br/><br/>*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website