Fine Art

The BA (Hons) Fine Art course is a long established subject in the Wolverhampton School of Art (est. 1851). As a student in Fine Art you will be able to engage with the diverse disciplines of contemporary Fine Art including painting, sculpture, printmaking, conceptual and social practice, film, video, photography, performance and installation. In addition to the broad contemporary Fine Art course the subject offers two specialist routes in ‘Painting and Printmaking’ and ‘Sculpture and Environmental Art’. Each area is supported by specialist tutors and facilities.

The Fine Art course is located in the purpose-built Wolverhampton School of Art. You will have a top floor studio space of your own in the spacious Fine Art facilities and join a stimulating community of fine art practitioners where you can test ideas and discuss decisions/motivations/media processes in relation to your individually negotiated themes and practices. Our vibrant, well used studio becomes the base for your increasingly independent and personally-focused learning.

The Fine Art course aims to offer an open ended and practice–led approach to learning with students working from conceptual ideas through to the tools and materials of studio production. The course aims to fuse practical and material led practice with critical and contextual exploration. This fusion will enable you to develop a sustainable model of practice as a professional artist and teach you a range of transferable skills relevant to careers in the creative industries. At all levels of the course you will work alongside practicing artists and researchers who aim to teach through their specialist fields.

The Fine Art course aims to:

Encourage you to explore different media relevant to the development of your own work.

Support you to acquire knowledge and practical experience of working in painting, sculpture, printmaking, conceptual and social practice, film video, photography, performance and installation.

Provide you with the opportunity to observe, discuss and take part in a sustainable model of studio-based practice alongside artist/practitioners who are engaged in their own work.

Enable you to develop an individually negotiated Fine Art practice informed by a relevant theoretical and contextual framework.

Develop critical and analytical skills in historical and critical research and writing.

Understand and locate your work appropriately within the broad and specialist contexts of your subject and research appropriate to your personal and career objectives.

This course is an intensive studio-based programme, supported by technical workshops, theoretical engagement and a wide range of study visits and opportunities to promote and exhibit your work along the way. The Fine Art team aim to: Provide you with an exciting and diverse introduction to contemporary fine art practice. Support you to acquire specialist knowledge and practical experience of working inpainting, sculpture, printmaking, conceptual and social practice, film, video, photography, performance and installation. Encourage you to test and explore different approaches to fine art practice and to critically evaluate the relationship between idea, media, method and outcome. Enable you to develop an individually negotiated fine art practice informed by a relevant theoretical and contextual framework. Produce informed, independent and reflective fine art practitioners who can adapt their knowledge, understanding and skills for a variety of professional contexts.