BA (Hons) Fine Art (with Foundation Year)

With more museums and galleries than any other UK city outside of London and the country’s largest contemporary art biennial, Liverpool provides a dynamic setting for the study of Fine Art. Through partnerships with renowned cultural organisations such as TATE Liverpool, you can experience an enriched curriculum with visiting lecturers and international artists contributing to your learning experience.At its core, Fine Art is about communication, innovation, challenge and application. It is about exploring your individual potential through visual possibilities and theoretical questions, with an awareness of the increasingly complex and media-saturated global arena. Our Fine Art degree is for those who have the desire to work hard and the ability to explore ideas through a wide range of media. The course is driven by its core aim; to encourage and enable you to engage with issues and practices across a broad Fine Art spectrum - from the historical to the contemporary.The Fine Art degree at Liverpool Hope is delivered through three main components: Studio Practice, Art and Design History, and Professional Practice. This combination of studies will equip you with the essential skills to establish yourself as a professional artist, or work in the wider creative industries. Study with us and you will have access to excellent dedicated studios and workshops, with a balance of traditional and new media.The programme is taught by professional artists who are actively engaged in research and also have a long history of exhibiting, curating, and engaging with contemporary practice and discourse. This wealth of staff experience will enable you to become aware of, and explore a broad range of approaches and methodologies within fine art. The Art and Design History element of the curriculum provides a systematic underpinning of Art and Design practices and theories with a strong emphasis on critical thinking.Based at Liverpool Hope’s Creative Campus, students are immersed in the city’s cultural activity, including at the University’s Cornerstone Gallery. The Gallery is used to underpin and inform learning across the curriculum, through a programme of exhibitions by visiting artists and students.CareersFine Art has an enviable record for graduate employment. 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.The degree 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.A significant number of Hope graduates successfully progress to postgraduate courses each year, with recent Fine Art graduates going on to study at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths and Chelsea School of Art