BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
University of the Arts London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
BA Fine Art Painting offers you the opportunity and resources to develop your own practice as an artist.
Our studios are a site of production and community. They are spaces where discussion and exchange shape the work students make.
How will you learn?
- Through seminars, reading groups, interactive lectures, peer learning, group tutorials, student-led projects, workshops and technical teaching
- By going on off-site visits and college trips outside London. These have included Amsterdam, Margate, New York and Rotterdam
- You will have access to a specialist-painting technician. This will give you technical support and material knowledge
- Through diverse forms of teaching to suit a range of practices and groups
- By engaging with spaces off-site where art gets made and exhibited
- Through a program of panel discussions, artists' talks and screenings
- Via painting pathway initiatives such as artists in residence
- Via our yearly research theme - currently 'Painting as technology'.
- By using the shared workshops. These include woodwork, print, photographic and audio-visual workshops. There is also a painting methods and materials area.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
- Painting processes evolving from hand-driven, mechanical and digital modes of making
- Drawing as analytical thinking
- A problem-solving approach to making work
- Ways to imagine painting as a model for expansive fields and extending the discipline
- To find your own voice as an artist informed by critical enquiry
- How to engage and share the studio as a site of enquiry
- To work on your own and in collaboration with others
- How to work within a professional landscape of contemporary practice
- To take ownership of your own learning and practice
For more information please visit the institute website.
Program Outcome
This course prepares you for progression into a range of careers such as a practicing artist, arts manager, art writer, curator, gallery educator, teacher, arts educator and technician.
Recent painting graduates have successfully progressed to postgraduate study, as well as exhibiting in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition and The Saatchi Channel 4 New Sensations exhibition that included 5 Wimbledon painting alumni, out of a total of its' 20 exhibitors. Past and present students have also used the course placement to establish studio employment links with a variety of artists.
For more information please visit the institute website.