Course options
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Qualification
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Location
Newcastle, Main Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
15-SEP-25
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Duration
4 Years
Course summary
Our Fine Art degree is a practice-based course in contemporary visual art for ambitious, motivated and imaginative artists.
Course overview
This unique four-year fine art degree focuses on developing your professional, practical and theoretical skills alongside your own exciting body of work. You'll graduate ready for a career in the field or progression to postgraduate study.
You will have space and time to experiment and develop your ambitious ideas in the studio, as well as forming a deeper understanding of art history and contemporary art through taught modules.
Throughout your degree, you can choose from more than 20 specialist workshops, such as ceramics, photography, 16mm film, oil painting, performance and experimental printmaking.
You'll become a confident fine art professional, with the skills and knowledge of what it takes to thrive in the contemporary art world through live projects, placement opportunities, exhibitions and your final-year degree show. Your degree show gives you the chance to display your work to hundreds of visitors.
Teaching methods
Teaching is focused around you and your practice, and is driven by making in the studios and workshops. You will develop an increasingly self-directed studio practice across the four years.
This will be supported and developed through regular one-to-one tutorials with your studio tutor, group crits, taught workshops and strands introducing you to new working methods.
You will also benefit from visiting artists, critics and curators who contribute to tutorials and workshops, alongside Newcastle University staff.
Your future
Graduates have gone on to work as artists and curators, and take up a variety of roles across the cultural and creative sector, such as:
- setting up and running art galleries
- establishing studio projects
- local council arts and cultural teams
- visual arts officers
- teachers
- community arts specialists
- art therapists
- critics and writers
- art directors and technicians
- graphic designers
- illustrators
- set designers
Tuition fees
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£ 25,000per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
Entry requirements
Choose a qualification
QUALIFICATION TYPE
- A level
- Scottish Higher
- Access to HE Diploma
- Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
- Extended Project
- International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
- Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
- Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
A level : BBB - AAB
A key feature of our selection process is the inspection of a portfolio of artwork. We may consider lower offers for candidates where the portfolio is exceptional.
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University information
Newcastle University
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University League Table
26th
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Campus address
Medical Student Office, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE2 4HH, United Kingdom
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Graduate prospects
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Student satisfaction
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