Fine Art (Hons) University of Northampton

Overview

You will build confidence with various media, informed by historical and contemporary references, cultural and social contexts and the professional requirements you will need to meet when you graduate. Students to engage in live projects, competitions and exhibitions throughout the course.

Whatever your ambitions, you will be helped to achieve them. You will be able to identify the skills you are learning during your course, find your strengths and secure practical experience so that when it comes to applying for jobs or further study you will feel confident in standing out from the crowd. The Northampton Employment Promise has been created so that if you focus on your studies and complete one of the awards you will be highly employable by the time you graduate. 

Key Facts

You will learn through studio practice, specialist media workshops, professional study components and a programme of lectures and seminars. The Fine Art (Hons) undergraduate course from University of Northampton will give you an informed and critical understanding of contemporary practices and debates, encouraging the development of your creative and critical intelligence and showing you how to integrate innovative thinking with practical ability. You will be able to explore and question the nature of any given medium and/or hybrid practices and you will have the opportunity to explore art as an instrument for social change and a way of improving our society and culture. You will benefit from spacious and well-equipped facilities and links to the Milton Keynes Gallery, NN Contemporary Art (Northampton), Corby Cube Gallery and Rugby Museum and Art Gallery.

All staff are practicing artists who publish and exhibit nationally and internationally. Throughout the programme, there will be regular visits from innovative arts organizations such as Artangel and internationally renowned artists including Richard Long, Ian Davenport, Mark Francis, Jenny Saville, Marcus Harvey, Dan Hays, Michael Landy, Richard Deacon, Ian McKeever and Richard Wilson.

Throughout this course, your ideas will be nurtured and developed by a close relationship with the team of specialists, visiting artists and other students. You will graduate with a unique balance of critical, practical and creative skills, thanks to the opportunities you will be given to move between media disciplines. There are also trips involved in the course, which have included France, Italy, Spain, India and the USA.

Career Opportunities 

• Graduates of our Fine Art course can find careers in arts organisation, gallery management, exhibition curating photography, joumalism, teaching art therapy, theatre, film and television or other roles that value creative thinking. 
• If you are interested in further study, you can also continue on to the Fine Art Postgraduate course or embark upon independent creative practice.