Course summary

This new Level 6 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Fine Art Practice embraces a full range of disciplines, reflecting the diversity of studio-based creativity today. Whether you're driven by materials, making and physical outcomes or by more ephemeral activities, you have the freedom to work in the materials and methods of your choice, including: drawing, painting, ceramics, constructed textiles, printmaking, illustration, photography, installation, intervention, performance and digital technologies. This new course is currently subject to validation with our first intake of students planned for September 2026. About the course: This course has been designed to encourage you to develop your creativity through projects that stimulate and challenge, while allowing time and space to develop your own work. Practical workshops allow you to make creative media choices within your personal studio work, developing your own creative practices with an academic understanding of both historical and contemporary ideas and issues. On this multidisciplinary course, we'll teach you some of the skills and knowledge required to carve out a career as a practising artist or gain employment in a variety of arts-related jobs. There will be opportunities to explore professional practice through visits and contacts with professional creatives. You'll also take part in an exciting live external group project, gaining a real-world perspective on working with clients and exhibiting. The course culminates in a final exhibition showcasing studio practice. Our dedicated tutors are highly-experienced educators and active creatives with national reputations for excellence in their own field. Studio-based Modules We'll encourage you to work in the materials and methods of your choice - including: -Drawing -Painting -Printmaking -Illustration -Photography -Installation -Intervention -Ceramics -Performance -Sculpture To help evolve your artistic skills and grow an understanding of the critical position of your personal creative work. You will explore how what you do can contribute to life in the 21st Century in a world with ever-shifting subject boundaries. You will make, share and discuss art works and build your own creative voice as well as learn ways to collaborate and work with other creatives and organisations. Professional Studies Modules include: -Self-promotion -Portfolio preparation -How to exhibit and be shown as an artist in traditional and non-traditional art spaces -How to organise exhibitions -Applying for funding/grants -The law for visual artists -Professional practice Assessments: Assessment is continuous throughout the course. Work is organised into practical and written projects. These are then graded and fed back to students with written and verbal feedback. The course culminates in a final exhibition. There are no exams. Bursaries We want our courses to be accessible to students from any background, so we’ve put together a cash support package in the form of non-repayable bursaries to provide financial help where it’s really needed. Details for 2026-27 will be advertised once approved by the university regulator – the Office for Students (OfS). Please check our website - www.nottinghamcollege.ac.uk - for more information. Careers and progression: There is a wide range of career opportunities within the creative industries and an increasing proportion of our graduates now freelance and set up their own small businesses, both locally and online. Whilst some choose to venture into other sectors and are equally successful in gaining employment due to the transferable skills gained on the programme. Other graduates continue with their studies with higher degrees or teacher training, with more than 40% progressing to postgraduate MA courses.