Fine Art - Placement Year (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Through the Fine Art - Placement Year (Hons) course from Lancaster University course from Lancaster University hands-on workshops and technical demonstrations, you’ll deepen your understanding of materials and techniques, ready to turn your ideas into impactful contemporary art. Join our thriving creative community, working with experienced artists, and build connections to shape your future in the art world and beyond.

Fine Art at Lancaster is about finding your voice and deciding what matters to you in today’s art landscape. With engaging seminars in art history and theory, we’ll support you in shaping your values and understanding the evolving role of art. As you develop these ideas in your own studio practice, discover how contemporary art can be bold, disruptive, and meaningful.

You will be challenged to broaden your understanding of contemporary Fine Art, via a wide range of hands-on projects and skills-based workshops. Previously, students have worked on live briefs in partnership with arts organisations such as Deco Publique, Good Things Collective, Maritime Museum, FACT Liverpool and Lancaster Arts.

Discover how experimenting with painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, digital art, and their many hybrids, can drive your creative impulse. Work with diverse mediums in our purpose-built studios that include high tech seminar facilities, a digital art lab, installation spaces, and fully equipped workshops. Tailor your learning experience by picking how you want to specialise, focusing on one or two art mediums or continuing to explore different mediums. Study cutting-edge techniques along the way and preparing to make an impact in your own way.

Career opportunities:

This degree supports you in developing the ambition, confidence, and skills to produce fine art at a professional level. You will understand the key entry points into the diverse pathways that artists' careers can take, from your first experiences of installing and documenting your work, to the construction of portfolios, presentations and high-quality applications.

Graduates of Fine Art go on to pursue careers in the following:

• Professional Artist

• Curating

• Gallery Education Programmes

• Exhibition Management

• Digital Communications Manager

• Museum and Gallery Management

• Teaching

• Artefact Conservation

• Video and Media Production

• TV and Film Scenography

• Arts Event Management

With a deep understanding of fine art and a diverse skill set, you’ll also be well-prepared to pursue a broad range of postgraduate study, with some graduates branching into fields such as material engineering, design, advertising and marketing.