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Fine Art (Placement Year) at Lancaster University - UCAS

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This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

Lancaster University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

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28Jun
Lancaster University Open Day
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12Jul
Lancaster University Open Day
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13Sep
Lancaster University Open Day
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Course summary

Unleash your ideas and develop your artistic expression through Fine Art at Lancaster. You will develop a unique contemporary art practice that engages with current ideas and issues to make valuable contributions to environment, culture and community. Through workshops and technical demonstrations, you’ll deepen your understanding of materials and techniques, ready to turn your ideas into impactful contemporary art. Why Lancaster?

  • Take a highly distinctive programme that combines fine art practice with the study of contemporary ideas and art movements
  • Take advantage of your own dedicated studio space available 24/7 from day one, with expert technical support on hand
  • Work with tutors who are practicing artists and scholars, exhibiting and publishing their work across a range of fine art ideas and mediums
  • Join a supportive community of staff and students committed to making art relevant today, helping you build connections that will shape your future in the art industry
  • Study in Lancaster, a vibrant and inspiring hub of award-winning arts festivals, events and places of cultural significance
Bring your vision to life Fine Art at Lancaster is about finding your voice and deciding what matters to you in today’s art landscape. With engaging seminars in art history and theory, we’ll support you in shaping your values and understanding the evolving role of art. As you develop these ideas in your own studio practice, discover how contemporary art can be bold, disruptive, and meaningful. You will be challenged to broaden your understanding of contemporary Fine Art, via a wide range of hands-on projects and skills-based workshops. Previously, students have worked on live briefs in partnership with arts organisations such as Deco Publique, Good Things Collective, Maritime Museum, FACT Liverpool and Lancaster Arts. Discover how experimenting with painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, digital art, and their many hybrids, can drive your creative impulse. Work with diverse mediums in our purpose-built studios that include high tech seminar facilities, a digital art lab, installation spaces, and fully equipped workshops. Tailor your learning experience by picking how you want to specialise, focusing on one or two art mediums or continuing to explore different mediums. Study cutting-edge techniques along the way and preparing to make an impact in your own way. A thriving creative community Your tutors are professional artists who are exhibiting, curating and writing across a range of art and ideas, including high profile residencies and commissions in museums, galleries and cultural industries worldwide. Your tutors have exhibited at the likes of the Henry Moore Institute, the Foreman Art Gallery Canada and Hong Kong Art Fair. Some have won awards such as The Royal Scottish Academy William Littlejohn Award 2024 and the John Muir Trust Creative Freedom Award for 3d work 2024, as well as commissioned work for organisations such as The National Trust, FutureEverything and the Dumfries House Royal Drawing School. You’ll join these experienced academics in a community of creative thinkers and makers, that is both highly creative and intellectually vibrant. Lancaster is a hub of art and cultural activity, home to award-winning festivals such as, Lancaster Words and Litfest literary festivals and the stunning Light Up Lancaster festival of art and light. Many art events take place on Lancaster’s inspiring campus, and the University regularly partners with independent theatre The Dukes and The Storey arts centre to host exhibitions. Whilst building lifelong connections with artists, external partners, tutors and other students in the School of Art, you’ll also develop your own distinct and independent style. Your Placement Year Sometimes known as a year in industry, your placement year will take place between your second and final year of study and this will extend your degree to four years.

How to apply

This course is not open to application until the 13th May 2025.

15Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W101
Institution code:
L14
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Applicants will typically be required to submit a portfolio before being made an offer. The department will contact applicants to request the portfolio. The portfolio should include imaginative, expressive and analytical work as well as objective drawing. Art Foundation Courses are not an essential requirement for this degree. We welcome applications for this degree from students who have or are in progress of completing an Art Foundation Course. These applications will be considered on a case by case basis and we would expect the applicant to have also achieved two grade B A levels.

Additional entry requirements

Portfolio

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For information on our fees, please see www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding.
Fine Art (Placement Year) at Lancaster University - UCAS