Fine Art and Film (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Key facts:

Your Fine Art and Film (Hons) modules will provide you with the opportunity to integrate Art Practice with Art History/Theory at a high level. Throughout your degree you will have the opportunity to develop creative and technical skills in painting, drawing, sculpture, digital art and their hybrids. They have a wide ranging view of what fine Art can be in the 21st century and have no ‘house style’. 

Your tutors will be professional artists and publishing historians/theorists and the mix of academic and creative skills gained at Lancaster makes you highly attractive for postgraduate study and employers.

Film at Lancaster University offers stimulating and intellectually engaging modules, which provide a framework for the close analysis of individual films. You will study cinema history and the social significance of films and will develop a detailed understanding of the techniques of film production. You will also have the opportunity to produce short films in all three years of your study. 

Career

A Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts combined degree gives graduates the opportunity to develop confidence and the capability to produce work for themselves. Graduates have become professional artists, while others have chosen to work as community artists and designers, arts administrators and managers.  Film graduates have gone into TV production roles, independent film production and jobs in advertising, marketing and media production.

The transferable skills gained through studying a Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts combined degree at Lancaster make graduates extremely attractive to a wide range of employers within different creative industries, including the media.  Some graduates pursue postgraduate vocational training in media-related professions, such as broadcast and print journalism, or take their skills into promotional and marketing roles. 

Many graduates also go on to further study often becoming academics, lecturers and teachers or further vocational training in film production, including the prestigious New York Film Academy and London Film School.