Fine Art

Fine Art is an exciting course that enables you to develop your creative voice, by exploring both, traditional and innovative approaches to contemporary art, reflecting the ever-evolving creative industries.

From day one of this practice-based course, the programme team will encourage you to develop your creativity, by challenging and inspiring you to cultivate your technical, critical reflective and enterprising skills to support you in forging a successful and sustainable career in contemporary art.

On this studio-based course you:

• Have the opportunity to experiment with digital, intermedia and traditional art forms, within our purposefully designed studios.

• Have access to a range of professional workshops, industry-standard software, photographic and media resources*.

• Will be taught by practising artists and creatives who have exhibited at several prestigious venues across the world.

Key Course Benefits

• Fine Art is a leading-edge undergraduate programme that is distinctive and innovative in its approach. It critically positions art practice as a catalyst within society, and artists as ‘activators and activists’ in global, social, cultural, political, economic, and civic contemporary and future contexts.

• This practice-based course will challenge and inspire you to develop your creative, technical, critical, and reflective skills through 2D, 3D and 4D art practice.

• You will gain valuable employability attributes to support you in forging a successful and sustainable career and you will learn how, as a graduate, you can contribute to and expand the roles assigned to artists to initiate cultural change.

• Following the University’s major investment in art and design, Fine Art is located in our state of the art, city centre development. It benefits from a vibrant array of advanced facilities, including world class teaching spaces and technical workshops, innovative technology, multi-use, lens-based, immersive technology, and hyper studios as well as a public gallery space*.

• You will become part of a community of artist practitioners, who taught by practising artists, art historians, and writers who have exhibited and published their work internationally.

• The course offers you lots of different career paths in fine art, and across the creative industries. Past graduates have won the prestigious John Moore’s Painting prize and the ‘Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement; secured positions such as curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, editor of ‘Madame Wang’ an international journal for collaborative arts practice, Cultural Events Organiser for Coventry Cathedral, and had artwork selected for the International Neu/Now Festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website

This course has a common first year

The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn.

If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements).

Year One Modules
Inspiration
Process
Play
Narrative
Audiences

Year Two
In year two, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your:

Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge
Study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner
Professional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your career
Global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen

In year two, you will develop more advanced knowledge and skills to do with: considering the role of an artist in a contemporary society, engaging with global audiences, and environments, amongst others.

Modules
Chance
Society
Global Audiences
Locating Research
Environments
Interruptions

Placement Year
There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement can often be beneficial. Work placements* usually occur between your second and final year of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.

If you choose to do a work placement year, you will pay a reduced tuition fee* of £1250. For more information, please go to the fees and funding section. During this time you will receive guidance from your employer or partner institution, along with your assigned academic mentor who will ensure you have the support you need to complete your placement.

Final Year
Your final year aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from years one and two.

Modules
Critical Connections
Dialogues
Communities
Consolidations
Launch

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content. For full module details please check the course page on the Coventry University website.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website