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BA (Hons) Fine Art
- Duration: 3–5 years full-time
- Placement year: Optional 1 year
- Course code: W100 (UCAS)
- Institution code: A66 (UCAS)
Meet our Industry Patron – Visual Arts South West
Meet the Industry Patron for BA (Hons) Fine Art – Visual Arts South West (VASW).
BA (Hons) Fine Art has collaborated with VASW to create new career advice resources. These resources begin with a lecture and then provide helpful web-based employment advice; provided by several artists who've been there, done that and got the T-shirt.
Career destinations
Our students go on to a broad range of destinations, which include:
- Artist
- Educator
- Entrepreneurial business activities
- White Cube Gallery – Intern
- PULSE commercial art fairs New York and Miami director
- Artworks artists studios – Founder
- Goldsmiths College – PGCE study
- Curator – BALTIC Gallery
- Tate Gallery – technical installation leader
- Slade School of Fine Art – studio co-ordinator
- HackelBury Fine Art – Gallery Manager
- The Pineapple Group Ltd – Creative Project Manager
- SpearWorks Jewellery – Jewellery Designer/Maker
- James Glancy Design Ltd – Production Fabricator
- Picture Production Company – Head of Editing
- White Cube – Client Registrar
- Adidas – Project Manager
- Seen Displays – Senior Creative Project Manager
- Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) – Associate Director
- The Arts of Change – Art Therapist
- Pinewood Studios – Prop Maker
- Gloss – Gallery Manager
- V&A – Internship
- Digital Arts Organization – Assistant
- Damien Hirst and Ian McKeever – Studio Assistant
- ArtSway – Research Assistant as part of a Knowledge Transfer Catalyst Scheme
Alumni
Our graduates go on to a broad range of artistic and creative careers. Find out from the profiles below what some of our alumni have got up to since graduating.
Life as Curator at Somerset House – a catch-up with Kinnari Saraiya
After apprenticing at the University’s gallery, she went on to work at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and now serves...
Rachel Mortlock – BA (Hons) Fine Art
Following a successful graduate exhibition in London, Rachel was selected for the Graduate Platform Award at Aspex Gallery...
Daniel Armstrong – BA (Hons) Fine Art
I helped my friend set up a cycle café in London called Cycle PS and we created this community of cyclists...
Dan Broadbent – BA (Hons) Fine Art
The Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe (BEAF) was established in 2014 by Bournemouth council to provide a platform for local artists and...
Aaron Peever – BA (Hons) Fine Art
Aaron Peever has a passion for oil painting and has had his work displayed in online galleries, magazines, and physically in...
Awards
Our BA (Hons) Fine Art students and graduates have gone on to win great things.
- Nominated – Annwn Prize – Kinnari Saraiya, In the Eye of a Dream (2025)
- National ‘Lynne Stainer Painting Prize’
- Solo exhibition at Aspex Gallery Portsmouth
- Two graduates selected for inclusion in the Dangerous Women exhibition
- Two-week long artist residency in Milan
- Five students selected for Hans Brinker Painting Prize exhibition in Amsterdam
Guest lectures
This year, we invited a number of industry experts professionals into our classes to give our students a valuable insight into Fine Art and industry. Guest lecturers have included:
2024–25: Robert Hollyhead, Naomi Frears, David Blandy, Elizabeth Price, Jasmina Cibic.
2023-24: Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Vivien Zhang, Andrew Carnie, Amy Steel, Permindar Kaur, Linda Stupart.
2022–23: Goia Mukalli; Ilona Sagar; Flo Brooks; Melanie Jackson; Florence Peake; Adam Chodzko.
2021–22: Doug Fishbone; Tai Shani; Anne Tallentire; Sean Edwards; Teresa Solar; Lucy Stein; Prabhakar Pachpute.
2020–21: Otobong Nkanga; Jasmina Cibic; Ingrid Pollard; Caragh Thuring; Jennet Thomas; Robert Holyhead; Hardeep Pandhal; Becky Beasley.