BA (Hons) Fine Art Experience artistic freedom by keeping your options open or developing a hybrid artistic practice Course in Islamabad || Registration Open
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Overview
Develop your technical skills and artistic direction while growing your passion for art
Our BA (Hons) Fine Art degree will introduce you to new ways of working, help you to develop new ideas and discover new processes so that you can grow as an artist. You will have complete artistic freedom and develop skills and knowledge in a wide range of disciplines before choosing your specialism.
This extensive programme is built around the key areas of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and textiles. It is supported by technical workshop provision to enable you to achieve the highest quality art production. This variety of options allows you to commit to one of these discipline areas or to work across these areas in a hybrid manner. We will encourage you to develop intellectual curiosity and a sense of adventure, with an ability to deal with the unpredictable.
Main studio, workshop skills and activities include:
- Painting: oil, acrylic, construction, mixed media, collage.
- Printmaking: etching, screen-printing, relief printing, mono-print and combined media, block print and photo based processes
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Teaching and Assessment
Learn in a student-centred environment and thrive as an artist
You will be taught through small lectures and seminars along with peer group critiques in the studio which will support your independent, self-directed work. You will learn to create your own negotiated pattern of work as you move towards an exhibition for your degree show in your final year.
You will experience a wide variety of approaches to learning through core and optional modules that build to form an incremental approach to fine art practice. The development of knowledge and skills is encompassed through the use of a wide range of materials, media and processes in studio and workshop activity to develop your practical skills and subject knowledge. The integration of the cultural, critical and theoretical debate and inquiry provides you with the ability to contextualise your work within academic frameworks.
You will experience a combination of practical assessment (including a public degree show at the end of year three), report writing, essays and presentations, using clear assessment criteria that reflect achievement.
your skills, talent and potential
St Michaels’ House
Based on the Bognor Regis campus, the Fine Art department is situated in the beautiful St. Michaels’ House, a building comprising specialist studio and workshop facilities. It is an exciting place to study, providing a dynamic and supportive learning environment for the production of original new art work. Here you’ll be dedicated your own personal studio space so you have the freedom to explore a range of contemporary media whilst developing your personal style.
Tech Park
You will also have access to the £35 million Tech Park which houses new specialist & digital equipment and incredible open-plan workshop spaces which will provide you with environments where you can create experimental, inventive and ambitious work. The workshops reflect the range of options across the key disciplines of the Fine Art programmes, as a BA (Hons) Fine Art student, you will have access to all workshops where you can create experimental, inventive and ambitious work.
Workshops
You will have access to all workshop areas:
- Sculpture: you will have access to specialist wood and metal/casting workshops, a dedicated ceramic space with electric kilns and glaze area. If you would like to develop large scale installations there is a large teaching space for video, light and sound projections.
- Textiles: you will have access to a specialist textiles workshop with machines for embroidery, hot press as well as a printing table, weaving and tapestry, constructed textiles, felt-making and Batik.
- Painting and drawing: you will have access to the life room which doubles as a large painting workshop space and to the wood workshop for making stretchers for canvas.
- Printmaking: you will have access to a specialist print workshop with silk screens and etching tables, a flat press bed for relief prints, and light box for photo etching and screen print.
Placements
We are committed to ensuring our students are prepared for entering the art industry with confidence once graduating. In your second and third year, you will be enrolled on a specialist programme that focuses on aspects of professional practice and vocational experience. This experience is invaluable in terms of working to time and budgetary constraints, and in working with the public.
Our experienced team will arrange placements tailored to your long term aims. Previous placement projects include:
- Teaching
- Community arts projects
- Site-specific commissions
- Working in local galleries and museums (admin, marketing and gallery education)
- Residencies in schools
- Creating their own virtual gallery
- Art sales
- Exhibition and event development
- Business plans for self-employment
Interviews and Portfolio Advice
Everything you need to know
You will have a choice of having a face-to-face interview with a physical folio or an online interview with a digital folio. We try to make your interview experience as pleasant as possible. We want you to be relaxed since this is when we are most likely to see the ‘real you’.
We want to find out about your art practice, your artistic preferences and your opinions about art but we will not be trying to catch you out with obscure questions. Be prepared, but don’t panic!
Read our Fine Art Interview and Portfolio guide for more information.
Degree Shows
Degree shows are organised each year and provide all Fine Art students with the opportunity to professionally exhibit their work to the public. With over several hundred visitors and much of the work sold, the overall atmosphere is second to none!
Careers
Turn your passion for art into a career
As a Fine Art student, you will undertake external projects and receive careers advice so you are prepared to pursue your desired career or to undertake postgraduate study. This course prides itself in embedding creativity (in all it’s components) and communication skills centrally within the degree programme. The course offers students further key skills that are both useful for artists but, more importantly, are life-skills that will help them in varied employment situations.
This course will provide you with the opportunity to develop skills across a broad range of areas and become resourceful, reflective learners, finding creative solutions to new problems with the ability to be self-disciplined and able to work independently. Creativity, thinking ‘out of the box’ and good communication skills (visual, verbal, and written) are all key skills that employers are seeking, and these are fundamental skills developed.
- Illustrator
- Painter
- Art therapist
- Arts administrator
- Animator
- Commercial art gallery manager
- Museum/gallery exhibitions officer
- Art teacher or art technician
- Artist
- Design, photography, marketing and communications
- Community based artist
- Graphic designer
You may decide to continue your study at the University of Chichester and undertake a postgraduate degree. Our postgraduate courses offer you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge and greatly improve your career prospects. Postgraduate study options available at Chichester include PGCE and PhD:
- PGCE Primary
- Postgraduate Research (PhD)
Drawing: drawing is seen as an important element in the development and realization of ideas and is the basis of the initial studio work.
Why Study Fine Art?
Undertake a degree at the forefront of creativity and artistic vision
7 Reasons to choose the University of Chichester:
1. Chichester and Bognor Regis
A city full of Art & Culture, a busy Student Union, the dramatic landscape of the South Downs, with the seaside at Bognor Regis and West Wittering. A free inter-campus bus is available to take you back and forth between each campus.2. The course
The structure allows you to choose which skills to develop, which aspects of Critical and Cultural Theory to focus on, and to self-determine the direction of your own practice. You will learn to create your own negotiated pattern of work as you move towards an exhibition for the degree show in your final year. The result is that you will become knowing, versatile and highly creative. Work placements and final year career advice leads to jobs.3. Your studio space
As a full-time Fine Art student you will have personal studio space throughout the year.4. There’s no house style
Abstract, Landscape, Figure or Conceptual – Traditional, Contemporary or Avant Garde – Painting, Textiles, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video, Photography, Installation, Performance Art etc – you decide what to do and we support you in working out how to do it with panache.5. The facilities
Home for the Fine Art Department is the St. Michael’s building comprising studio and workshop facilities, to enable you to make the best use of your talents and potential and high-tech 3D workshops in the Tech Park, giving us access to digital technologies like 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, and a variety of creative software for still and moving image. It is open from 8.00am to 8.30pm, Monday to Saturday, with First year students having sessions programmed on 4 days out of 5.6. Our staff
As well as supporting student development, our Fine Art staff are active practicing professional artists and researchers who regularly exhibit or publish their work; their research leads the BA programmes. On most weeks there’s a visiting professional artist. Each student has an Academic Advisor and we have an excellent Disability and Dyslexia Team to ensure that ALL students are able to pass their degrees at the appropriate level.7. Your interview
We are inclusive and welcoming; we judge you on your folder, not your background. If you are invited for interview you will have a choice of it being face-to-face with physical folio OR online with digital folio, always friendly and non-intimidating.The Course
This list is indicative and subject to change.Select a year
Studio Practice One
Studio based learning is by one-to-one or group tutorial, small group discussion and cross level peer group. There are visiting lectures most weeks who do a talk about their own work and offer you tutorials. You will be set a series of experimental research and drawing based activities that will challenge your ideas about 2D and 3D art and gently drive you towards the beginnings of a self-directed material practice and greater independence
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