Fine Art and Creative Writing (Hons) Lancaster University

Overview

Join our thriving creative community with events in the city’s Castle Quarter, multiple student-run literary journals, visiting authors, and opportunities to exhibit your art and present your writing live.

How will I develop my skills in Fine Art at Lancaster?

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.

How will I develop my writing?

Lancaster was one of the very first UK universities to teach Creative Writing. Today we continue to lead the way in the discipline with celebrated authors as tutors and students who go on to publish their work. Follow in the footsteps of writers such as Camille Ralphs, Andrew McMillan, Martha Sprackland, and Daisy Johnson, the youngest-ever author shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Careers

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.

Our creative writing graduates have published their own stories, novels, videogames, graphic novels, and poems with major publishers, and have had their scripts produced in national festivals and on national radio.

Providing valuable critical thinking and creative skills, this course will open up many opportunities across a range of sectors. Graduates of this degree may be interested in the following careers:

• Publishing

• Exhibition, Museum and Gallery Management

• Curating

• Professional Artist

• Artefact Conservation

• Video and Media Production

• TV and Film Scenography

• Journalism

• Copywriting

• Gallery Education Programmes

• Social media

Further postgraduate study can provide a pathway into careers such as teaching, law and social work.