Course summary

Overview Combining Fine Art and Illustration creates an opportunity to enhance your artistic abilities and apply them in storytelling contexts. You’ll work with a variety of mediums to create artwork ready to publish and exhibit. Each year you will explore new skills, re-evaluating your previous work as you grow and develop your own unique artistic voice. The joint honours course allows you to work using diverse processes and methods, supported by lecturers with years of professional experience. Students graduate with global connections and a portfolio of work relevant to roles across a wide range of creative industries. Key features

• Experience a variety of Fine Art making processes, contexts and media through innovative practice-based research

• Work with internationally recognised artist-lecturers whose own research interests and networks inform the studio culture

• Benefit from a vibrant programme of visiting lecturers and MA students and guest speakers

• Live brief collaboration with national publishers and publications

• Develop a diverse set of skills and leave with a professional portfolio of practice through work placements, collaborations and opportunities to study abroad

• Opportunity to travel to destinations in mainland Europe and introduced to exhibition practice through illustration fairs, card sales and exhibitions in the final year graduation show, as well as through an opportunity to showcase their work in London

• The University of Worcester has been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Quality Education in the Times Higher Education’s University Impact Rankings every year since its inception in 2019. The University has also been ranked in the top 5 in the UK for Gender Equality in all years of the rankings and currently holds the number one spot (2023).

• Worcester rose to become the number one English university (excluding specialist institutions) for sustained employment, further study, or both, three and five years after graduation in the 2022 Government-published Longitudinal Educational Outcomes survey, having been in the top 10 in 2020 and 2021. 96% of our graduates are in work or further study 15 months after graduating (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2022).

• Worcester is a leader in sustainability and has been awarded First Class Honours in the People and Planet Green League each and every year since 2009. In 2019, the University was named Sustainability Institution of the Year in the Green Gown Awards and was Highly Commended in the global awards at the UN.