The Foundation Degree in Fine Art Practices combines opportunities to develop a personal creative identity together with real experience of a range of vocational opportunities. At the heart of the programme is an enduring passion for the development of your individual personal vision as a fine artist. At every point, you are encouraged to exercise and strengthen your own voice as an artist, whilst developing an impressive portfolio of specialist and transferable skills and experiences.
The Foundation Degree in Fine Art Practices offers a blend of traditional and innovative fine art media. Drawing, painting, 3D, installation, time-based, virtual and lens-based media from the core topics available. Additionally, the College provides an expanded menu to support a customised profile for fine art students. These include sonic art, glass processes, ceramics, curating, performance, virtual software, metals, from the very large scale architectural to the intricate techniques of jewellery making applied as a sculptural medium. The cross-college programme of visiting lecturers includes a diverse range of practitioners strengthening the cross-disciplinary opportunities through critical debate as well as through practice.
Throughout the Fine Art Practices programme you will be encouraged to identify and direct your own career pathway as a fine artist, and to gain appropriate work-related experience accordingly, whether it be in promoting and exhibiting your own work, or working to specific commissions; project management; group exhibition organisation and curating skills; sound and image editing in the media-related industries; event arts; teaching; web design; or working as part of in inter-disciplinary creative team.
During the first year of the Foundation Degree in Fine Art Practices you will receive technical inductions in traditional and new processes, developing new links and inspirations. You will be encouraged to explore and expand your creative abilities through themed modules that allow you to integrate new skills with your preferred mediums. You will gain real experience in all aspects of exhibiting, and increase your awareness of audience and interpretation of your work. You will also have the opportunity to expand your skills through a module that allows you to enhance your chosen career direction from a menu of distinctive options across the whole range of Plymouth College of Art Foundation Degrees.
During the second year of the Foundation Degree in Fine Art Practices you will be consolidating your professional skills and personal contacts through modules that allow you to continue to develop your own artistic vision and ambition. In addition to the college-wide team of arts professionals at the College, visiting artists, practitioners and arts managers will offer practical advice for professional success. You will be encouraged to experience a variety of placements in keeping with your own customised direction. You will organise your own exhibition, and will receive many offers of a great variety of placements, commissions and gallery opportunities through the College’s network of creative opportunities.
Recent high profile FdA placements include – Theatre Royal, Royal William Yard Art Fair, Devon Arts Culture Artist in Residence, The Big Draw, Sonic Postcards, Red Propeller Gallery, Brownston Gallery, Artframe Gallery, Art Spaces Public Art Placements.
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.
BA (Hons) Fine Art Practices >>
