Fine Art
UCAS Code: W101
Duration: 3 years
Overview
At its core, Fine Art is about communication, innovation, challenge and application. It is about exploring individual potential through visual possibilities and theoretical questions with an awareness of the increasingly complex, media-saturated and context-aware global arena.
Fine Art is for those who have the desire to work hard and the ability to explore ideas through a wide range of media. The Department is driven by its aim to encourage and enable students to engage with issues and practices across a broad fine art spectrum.
The Single Honours Fine Art course at Liverpool Hope is delivered as an integrated curriculum combining theory and practice and will equip you with the essential skills to contribute to and engage with the twenty-first century discourse surrounding both the practice and theory of contemporary art.
The programme specifications for this subject can be downloaded below.
Fine Art
Why choose this subject?
- The opportunity to study in Liverpool, with its wealth of museums and galleries, which the department has excellent links with including the Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, FACT, National Museums Liverpool and Bluecoat Gallery
- The department provides an exciting programme of talks by visiting lecturers and you will encounter artists from around the world through the department’s International Artist in Residence programme
- The University has excellent facilities at the Creative Campus, including studio space, as well as our Cornerstone Gallery with visiting exhibitions.
- Studying fine art is both exciting and challenging, requiring research through practice as well as theory. Students are encouraged to explore ideas in the studio in an experimental, rigorous and contextually aware manner, extending their creative intelligence in a supportive environment, led by tutors who are practitioners in the international arena as well as experienced educationalists.
Curriculum
Single Honours students will study topics and courses including:
Level 1
- You will be introduced to the subject through a range of exciting and challenging studio projects in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and installation.
- To develop your skills you will undertake induction sessions with a range of materials and processes including for example: wood, metal, plaster, print-making, laser-cutting, video capture and editing, colour and mark-making.
- You will work with outside agencies to realise a live project, collaborating with Liverpool Biennial and West Everton Community Council.
- Lectures and seminars within Art and Design History are an integral part of the learning process, supported by regular tutorials to facilitate each individual’s creative potential.
Level 2:
- Level 2 begins with a series of projects designed to build upon your experience at Level 1 and diagnose your strengths and potential future direction in two or three dimensions.
- At the end of the first term, and in consultation with studio tutors, you will write an Independent Research Proposal, outlining the direction and focus of your studio practice for the remainder of the academic year. This is a statement of your intentions and has the potential to change as your work develops.
- Professional Practice becomes integrated with your studies at Level 2 and includes planning an exhibition. You will work as a group, setting up a bank account, organising the marketing and publicity of your exhibition as well as learning about fundraising strategies and curatorial decision making.
- The programme of lectures and seminars continues throughout Level 2 at the end of which you will identify an area of theoretical research for your Level 3 dissertation.
Level 3:
- Studio practice at Level 3 becomes autonomous, with regular support via one-to-one tutorials, group crits and indicative assessment.
- Professional Practice becomes a central component of study, preparing you for the outside world. This component is supported by a series of talks by external agencies from the creative industries and cultural organisations.
- Theoretical research for your dissertation is, wherever possible, linked to studio practice and supported by a member of staff from Art History as well as a studio lecturer.
- Level 3 culminates in an end-of-year degree show and a curated exhibition, external to the University, where you will present work to a professional standard in the public realm.
Combined Honours students will study topics including:
Level 1
- You will be introduced to the subject through a range of exciting and challenging studio projects in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.
- You will undertake induction sessions with a range of materials and processes including: wood, print-making, colour study and mark-making.
- Lectures and seminars within Art and Design History are an integral part of the learning process, supported by regular tutorials to facilitate each individual’s creative potential.
Level 2:
- Level 2 begins with a series of projects designed to build upon your experience at Level 1 and diagnose your strengths and potential future visual studies in two or three dimensions.
- At the end of the first term, and in consultation with studio tutors, you will write an Independent Research Proposal, outlining the direction and focus of your studio practice for the remainder of the academic year. This is a statement of your intentions and has the potential to change as your work develops.
- The programme of lectures and seminars continues throughout Level 2 at the end of which you will identify an area of theoretical research for an extended written Special Study.
Level 3:
- Studio practice at Level 3 becomes autonomous, with regular support via one-to-one tutorials, group crits and indicative assessment.
- Theoretical research for your Special Study is, wherever possible, linked to studio practice and supported by a member of staff from Art History as well as a studio lecturer.
- Level 3 culminates in an end-of-year degree show where you will present work to a professional standard in the public realm.
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Entry Requirements
2013-14 Entry Requirements
The standard offer level is a minimum of 300 UCAS points, including a minimum of two A/A2 levels or equivalent. In addition, applicants will preferably have Art Foundation (or equivalent in an arts related subject) and an A2 level (or equivalent) in an arts-related subject. All applicants will normally be required to attend an interview with their portfolio of work.
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Course Combination
Fine Art is available as a BA Single Honours degree, UCAS code W101
It can be studied as a combined honours degree with the following subjects:
All course combinations result in a BA Hons degree.
Fine Art is also available to study with Primary Teaching Honours degree (BA QTS), UCAS code X1W1.S.
Employability
Fine Art has an enviable record for graduate employment. The course generates autonomy, creativity and lateral and critical thinking as well as other highly desirable practical and intellectual transferable skills that genuinely prepare you for the world of work. The integrated live projects provide valuable experience of working in the professional arena and create professional contacts with potential future employers.
Many of our recent graduates have begun careers in lecturing, teaching, art therapy, gallery administration and curating, television, theatre, exhibition work, artist residencies, community and public arts. Graduates also go on to run their own successful businesses and studio workshops.
A significant number of Hope graduates successfully progress to postgraduate courses each year. Further study options available at Liverpool Hope include the MA in Creative Practice, MA in Art History and Curating and the PGCE.
