BA (Hons) Fine Art (3 year) at Plymouth College of Art

Fine Art BA (Hons) encourages you to develop an energetic and inquisitive approach to your practice. The programme of studies supports the development of your critical skills through an integrated programme of study into your own practice, contextual knowledge development and the role of the artist as curator. The aim is to ensure that Fine Artists can sustain a viable creative practice in the twenty-first century, using the range of creative practices, knowledges and professional skills developed on the programme. Fine artists need to be acutely aware of current and emerging issues that inform the debates and events within contemporary creative culture. This diversity of modes of contemporary activity and discourse provides a rich and complex field for investigation and action. Having encountered a variety of approaches during year one, students can then opt for a Pathway – Studio-based or Critical and Curatorial Practices Pathway. In either pathway, there will be seminars, group discussions and interdisciplinary activity, energising and inspiring your own creative practice. Within the Critical and Curatorial Practices Pathway, you may chose a more theoretical or a more practical approach to your study of curatorial practices, which will allow you to increase to proportion of theory to practice, according to each individual’s preferences and aptitudes.
Career possibilities, artist – artist in residence, commissions, publicly funded arts projects, curation and exhibition industries, education (including formal teaching situations, gallery and outreach education, community workshops), creative events industries, web and interactive design (including virtual gallery design, e-commerce, interactive technologies), arts management, marketing and promotion, media and sound industries, science and art collaborations, creative consultancy, academic research.

Validated by the Open UniversityFine Art BA (Hons) encourages you to develop an energetic and inquisitive approach to your practice. The programme of studies supports the development of your critical skills through an integrated programme of study into your own practice, contextual knowledge development and the role of the artist as curator. The aim is to ensure that Fine Artists can sustain a viable creative practice in the twenty-first century, using the range of creative practices, knowledges and professional skills developed on the programme. Fine artists need to be acutely aware of current and emerging issues that inform the debates and events within contemporary creative culture. This diversity of modes of contemporary activity and discourse provides a rich and complex field for investigation and action. Having encountered a variety of approaches during year one, students can then opt for a Pathway – Studio-based or Critical and Curatorial Practices Pathway. In either pathway, there will be seminars, group discussions and interdisciplinary activity, energising and inspiring your own creative practice. Within the Critical and Curatorial Practices Pathway, you may chose a more theoretical or a more practical approach to your study of curatorial practices, which will allow you to increase to proportion of theory to practice, according to each individual’s preferences and aptitudes.
Career possibilities, artist – artist in residence, commissions, publicly funded arts projects, curation and exhibition industries, education (including formal teaching situations, gallery and outreach education, community workshops), creative events industries, web and interactive design (including virtual gallery design, e-commerce, interactive technologies), arts management, marketing and promotion, media and sound industries, science and art collaborations, creative consultancy, academic research.

Validated by the Open University