Bachelor of Design Arts - Visual Art

The Bachelor of Design Arts with a major in Visual Art is for the creative who refuses to be defined by a single medium. Rooted in the traditions of fine art and expanded through digital media, moving image, and photographic practice, this major gives you the tools, space, and mentorship to develop a confident, original creative voice — and the professional skills to sustain it.Visual Art at LCI Melbourne is built around the Design Laboratory — a studio-based learning environment where you apply research, technical skill, and creative thinking to develop original work within your chosen specialisation. Every trimester begins with a combined theoretical lecture shared across all four disciplines, before moving into discipline-specific studio practice where academic mentors guide you through lectures, tutorials, technical demonstrations, and self-directed studio time.Across six trimesters — Exploration, Foundation, Issues, Global, Industry, and Capstone — you'll progress from discovering your creative identity to producing a sophisticated, exhibition-ready body of work that reflects your artistic ethos. Along the way, you'll respond to real industry briefs, collaborate on global projects with LCI campuses internationally, and complete a professional placement that puts you inside a real creative organisation.The Visual Art major lets you work across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, digital media, and photography, giving you both the breadth to experiment and the depth to specialise. Purpose-built facilities — including individual artist studios, printmaking rooms, aerosol and spray workshops, and a public gallery for student exhibitions — support your practice at every stage. A dedicated photography studio with cyclorama, lighting equipment, and audiovisual production tools means lens-based work is fully integrated into your studies.Graduate not just as an artist, but as a working creative professional — with a portfolio, a network, and the business and communication skills to back it up.