Fine Art today is an exciting, controversial and challenging subject open to people from all walks of life. An education in Fine Art can lead to a variety of career paths and offer rich opportunity for personal development. In parallel with contemporary art practice, the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Plymouth offers a unique opportunity for students to follow their own path through a range of subject areas. We describe ourselves as ‘broad-based’ which means we are especially supportive of students who wish to work across or between areas, at the cutting edge of art practice.
Students can draw upon a range of disciplines including:
- Painting
- Sculpture (including Textiles/Fibre arts)
- Video, Sound and Performance work ('time-based' art)
- Photography
- Printmaking
- Site-based work
We offer our students the opportunity to study on a full or part time basis. We also offer the opportunity to study a joint honours programme in Fine Art/Art History.
A dedicated and experienced teaching staff are on hand to advise, support and challenge students throughout the entire course. Here are some of the key aspects you will be encouraged to examine:
- Personal responses - Yourself Your experiences Your world
- Content - Looking at the subject of the work
- Form - Looking at the formal elements
- Process - How the work has been developed and made
- Aesthetics - Looking at the communication of mood, emotion, and other dimensions of experience
- Context - Taking a wider view
We strongly support, in partnership with studio practice, the development of theoretical and research skills, empowering our students to place themselves and their work in the cultural context of today.
Students have the opportunity to experience a range of visiting lecturers - people who are directly involved in the arts or engaged in relevant cultural debates (recent examples include: the nature of consciousness; issues of genetic manipulation; the politics of performance).