Fine Art
Teesside University, Middlesbrough
UCAS Code: W100 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Including a creative subject, from any combination of recognised Level 3 qualifications.
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About this course
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**Available for September or January intakes.**
**Course overview**: Do you dream of having your artwork presented in a gallery? Are you always making things, drawing, sculpting, printing or painting? Are you seeking a way to build a creative career?
This course is student-centred and practice-based. Our experienced team of artists and academics coach you to find and grow your creative voice, building on your distinct skills and motivations, and guiding you to experiment with new formats and media to develop your ideas. You collaborate with your peers to gain new perspectives, developing your voice and practice. Grow your resilience by producing a creative drawing and writing journal, capturing your challenges, milestones and reflections to see patterns in your thinking and linking reoccurring ideas. Alongside this, you learn how to thrive in the creative industries, from testing ideas and creative directions to understanding pitching etiquette and developing large-scale projects.
The course is supported by our very own international contemporary art gallery MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), a Plus Tate Museum and gallery with a permanent art collection. Through experiencing the behind-the-scenes working of a museum, you can better understand the work of artists, producers, curators, museum education officers and marketing teams. These interactions help you take the next steps in your career. You have the opportunity to put these skills into action through staging exhibitions of your work with partner galleries, and events in Teesside and beyond.
**Top reasons to study this course**:
1. Industry-standard facilities: you have access to our wood, metal, print, photography and fabric workshops, providing space to explore techniques that may be new to you. Our technical team support you to realise concepts that might have seemed impossible to achieve.
2. Personal space: you have your own studio for the duration of your studies - a personal space to make, experiment and think critically about your work in a supportive environment with your peer community.
3. Expert teaching: you learn from accomplished and award-winning practising artists and curators who have presented their work nationally and internationally.
4. Scholarships: you may be eligible for one of our scholarships. Visit our course page to find out more.
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**After the course**: Our students graduate as confident, creative practitioners. Graduates have gone on to establish successful galleries and studio spaces such as Gloam in Sheffield, undertake major national and international commissions, and work at galleries such as the Baltic, MIMA or as art therapists in the NHS.
Modules
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Assessment methods
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Quite a few students of fine art have already retired and are taking the degree for the excellent reason that they love art, and they're willing to pay to study it. You should bear this in mind if the stats you see feature particularly low employment rates. If you need to earn a living once you've finished your fine art degree, be aware that freelancing and self-employment is common - about one in six fine arts graduates were working for themselves. Also common are what is termed 'portfolio careers' — having several part-time jobs or commissions at once - and many courses actually help you prepare for freelancing. One in ten of last year’s fine arts graduates had more than one job six months after graduation — over twice the average for graduates from 2015. Graduates from these subjects are often found in arts jobs, as artists, designers, photographers and similar jobs, or as arts and entertainment officers or teachers — although it's perfectly possible to get jobs outside the arts if you wish, with jobs in events management, marketing and community work amongst the most popular options.
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