Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

Fine Art with Contemporary Cultural Theory enables you to develop an independent art practice alongside skills in cultural theory and critical analysis. You will be supported to approach art as a way of critically thinking through and intervening in the contemporary world. You’ll explore cultural production and practices in national, transnational and global contexts and across subject areas including philosophy, literature, sociology, film, communication studies, art history and digital humanities.

As with all Fine Art undergraduate courses at Leeds, you will be encouraged to explore and challenge your idea of art, experiment across different media and undertake original research. You’ll have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and to exhibit your work regularly. You’ll be encouraged to investigate the interconnections between art and the larger social dynamics that shape our culture, such as ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, being human and our relationship to nature and the environment. We’ll prepare you to be a socially conscious graduate with an array of relevant and transferable skills. You’ll have opportunities to contribute to the creative community, to build networks in the city and to exhibit your work. Throughout the course, we’ll support you in discovering what kind of creative practitioner and cultural theorist you want to be.

Our exemplary Year in Industry programme has enabled students to undertake work placements in the UK and internationally, with some placements leading to permanent employment in the arts sector, while our Study Abroad programme has provided life-changing experiences for many in our community.

Our Fine Art courses are distinct, with art historians, cultural theorists and fine artists studying alongside each other within a Russell Group University. The School building provides purpose-built studio space, a project space, specialist technical workshops, and a shared student common room, with regular open studio and exhibition events, opportunities for student-led social events and access to the city’s artistic scene.