Kingston University London - Fine Art BA (Hons)

Kingston University London

Fine Art BA (Hons)

This course enables you to experiment and explore your creative potential, preparing you for a career in the visual arts or wider creative industries. You will be able to work with a range of traditional and new technologies, developing your ideas through sculpture, painting, printmaking, installation, film/photography, performance, and sound.

Kingston School of Art consistently ranks amongst the highest in the UK for Art and Design in the Guardian League Tables.

All students attend a diverse series of professional skills lecturers, practice seminars, and artist talks from staff and guest lecturers, sharing knowledge and advice to help you navigate a future career in the creative industries. You will learn how to develop and present your outward-facing profile using key strategic skills for planning, showing, recording, and communicating your work.

Reasons to choose Kingston University

  • You'll benefit from dedicated studios and stunning technical workshops where you can develop your individual and collaborative creative skills in a range of traditional media and new technologies.
  • Professional skills modules will help identify and plan your future career, gain real-life experience, and build a portfolio, which will showcase your talents.
  • Kingston is ranked in the top five in London for Art (Guardian University League tables 2022).

Entry Requirements

  • UCAS tariff points:

     

    120-136
  • Level 3 qualifications in art and design subjects (A-levels, BTEC Diploma, Access Diploma, IB Diploma, etc.). The preferred entry route is to first take a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design or a recognized equivalent course.
  • IELTS of 6.0 overall, with no element below 5.5.

Career Prospects

Our students progress to highly-regarded postgraduate and doctoral study. Alumni develop careers as artists and work across a broad range of domains and institutions including curation, teaching and arts management. As well as exhibiting nationally and internationally, our alumni support their own practices by assisting renowned artists including Anish Kapoor and Ryan Gander, or gain experience with cutting-edge organisations such as ICA, Cell Project Space and Auto-Italia. Our alumni have featured in the New Contemporaries over the past five years. Amongst our alumni we can count renowned, prize-winning artists such as Fiona Banner (Tate Britain Duveen commission 2010), Kaye Donachie, Sarah Maple and Sarah McCrory, Director of CCA Goldsmiths and co-judge of the Turner Prize 2014.

Course Details

the First year Encourages an exploratory approach to fine art. Subject workshops, talks, and critiques introduce a wide range of media, technologies, and disciplines. You'll undertake independent studio practice, test your ideas, and your use of media and collaborate with your peers. Critical and Historical Studies modules will explore the relationship between written and spoken communications to media and materials.

Year 1

Introducing Studio Practice
Professional Skills I
Contextualising Contemporary Practice: Fine Art

Year 2

Developing Studio Practice
Professional Skills II
Critical Issues in Fine Art: Research and Practice

Year 3

Sustaining Studio Practice
Professional Skills III
Dissertation: Research and Reflection

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