BA in Fine Art
- Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
- London, United Kingdom
BA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 9,250 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* UK students: £9,250 per year | international: £16,500 for the first year
Key Summary
Develop your ideas through sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, film, photography, performance and sound.
Prepare for a career in the visual arts or wider creative industries with the Fine Art BA (Hons) course from 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.
We also have excellent links with many London-based, national and international organisations, such as large publicly funded galleries, museums, private galleries, and artist-run spaces and collectives.
You'll also be part of a community which has produced 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.
Why choose this course?
This course enables you to work with a range of traditional and new technologies. You’ll be taught by practising artists, writers and curators, and have opportunities for national and international field trips and studying abroad.
Through exchanges, residencies, competitions, travel scholarships and live projects, we provide students with first-hand professional experience in the creative sector, often leading to ongoing partnerships.
All students attend a diverse series of professional skills lectures, practice seminars and artist talks from staff and guest lecturers. They will share 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 also have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of workshops and internal/external live projects. This enables you to gain valuable experience of the industry while working collaboratively and across disciplines. Kingston School of Art has recently worked with organisations such as Tate, Stanley Picker Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), William Morris Society, Drawing Room and Goldsmiths CCA.
We want to ensure anyone with potential and drive has the opportunity to study with us, no matter their background or financial situation. That's why each year, we provide a number of bursaries to help our undergraduate students gain their degree.
- The Kingston bursary
- Bursaries for care leavers
- Bursaries for estranged students
- Bursaries for young adult carers
- Bursaries for Sanctuary Scholars
- Chancerygate Foundation bursary
- Salutem scholarships
- AVSH scholarship
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.
Graduates from our Fine Arts BA (Hons) course are well-positioned to work as independent artists, curators, writers and beyond. Some are instrumental in setting up, and contributing to, new creative, cultural, and educational spaces. Others progress to postgraduate study and research, or go on to teach and provide technical support to others in galleries and museums, schools and universities.
Our Future Skills programme is embedded within the Fine Art BA (Hons) curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience. Its purpose is to help you to become a future-proof graduate by equipping you with the skills most valued by employers, such as problem-solving, digital competency and adaptability.
As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills. You’ll also understand how to demonstrate and articulate to employers how these future skills give you the edge.