Our degree mixes new and traditional technologies to reflect the evolving world of contemporary art. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary and international practice, we will encourage you to become a highly skilled and self-sufficient practitioner with good working habits and a clear understanding of the placement of your work within historical and contemporary social, political and cultural contexts. We offer a rich experience of guided assignment briefs, self-initiated projects, national or international competitions, ‘live’ projects, and both internal and external exhibition opportunities. Typical graduate portfolios include: painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, digital media, moving image production and socially engaged practice. Socially engaged practice is work such as Ai Wei Wei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ installation exhibited in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall or the activist, community work of the collaborative art group Assemble. Helping to prepare you for graduation and the world of work, from the outset we aim to develop the professional skills associated with evaluating, exhibiting and distributing your work, which will become more visible to the outside world as the course progresses and your confidence grows. We have strong links with many regional arts organisations, for example, the Mead Gallery at the Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry ArtSpace Projects, Coventry Collective//Pod, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry Contemporary Art Biennale and New Art West Midlands. Our commercial partners currently include Warwickshire NHS Trust, the Coventry Building Society and Severn Trent Water, which runs an environmentally-themed tri-annual student art commission with the chance for six students to display their work in the company’s state-of-the art Operations Centre in Coventry (subject to availability, competitive application and additional costs). Our FACeTS (Fine Art at Coventry Talk Series) aim to provide an opportunity to hear direct from some of the most innovative contemporary artists and creative practitioners from the UK and beyond – recent topics have explored current changes in cultural opportunities across Eastern and Western Europe, post-object art practices in the context of digital media and the impact that artists can have on their environments. You may also be invited to take part in study trips to exhibitions and events. Past events have Britain, Tate Modern, White Cube, Saatchi Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Birmingham Ikon Gallery, Digbeth First Friday, Liverpool Biennial and British Art Show and many others. Key Course Benefits; - Workshop facilities for print, wood, metalwork, photo-studio, ceramic, laser cutting and computer labs. - Access to specialist photographic and media resources, including digital audio recorders and manual/digital still/video cameras via our dedicated Media Loan Shop. - A thriving studio culture with dedicated workspaces for all students in purpose-built studios with permanent exhibition displays, supported by wide-ranging technical facilities in both traditional and new technologies. - Research expertise in a broad range of areas pertinent to contemporary Fine Art including the changing relationship between art and society, hybrid practices, trans-local/transnational dialogues and the relevance of the image in painting. - Guest lecture programme.

Your main study themes are: **Exploring Art** We will give you an understanding of the principles of developing a fine art studio practice. You can explore a number of disciplines within 2D, 3D and 4D fine art studio practice, experimenting with drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, spatial approaches, fine art performance, video, photography and intermedia. You will learn to appreciate the importance of context and precedence in the evaluation of your own work, that of your peers and of nationally and internationally known practitioners. As the course progresses, you will focus in one or more areas of art practice, developing your ideas and approaches, building up to a body of work and professional experience that reflects a resolved and focused application of ideas. **Art in Context** We consider the theoretical, professional and historical frameworks that underpin the visual arts. You will begin by examining the history of art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century, including Romanticism, the Baroque, Impressionism, Surrealism and Constructivism. Lectures introduce you to the work of numerous historical artists from Valesquez to Vermeer and from Picasso to the Pop Artists, for example. You will analyse the relationship of art to audiences and critics, building your own confidence in critiquing visual arts and expressing your opinions. We will introduce you to professional contexts for showing work and the many roles that exist to support the making, critiquing, exhibiting and disseminating of work. You will have opportunities to test out and explore your conceptual understanding and practical skills relating to writing, curatorial and educational roles, putting theory into practice with a ‘live’ end-of-year exhibition. From the second year of the course, we switch a more in-depth study of contemporary fine art, examining a broad range of work by contemporary practitioners, such as Marcus Coates, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jane and Louise Wilson, Ian Kaier, Jessica Stockholder, Kerry James Marshall; key movements and ideas such as Postmodernism, Feminism, Globalisation, Queer Theory and the Anthropocene; and key writers/critics and theorists including Nicolas Bourriaud and Slavoj Zizek. Students will be expected to develop their research ability and engage with relevant debates. **Art Consolidations** During the final year of your degree, having already outlined your creative intentions, you should be strongly engaged in studio practice, honing your creative identity, revising and developing your ideas in preparation for the final degree show. We aim to generate an energetic approach to studio practice and will provide you with the experience of how to maximise your productivity in the studio. For example, using any techniques, media or combination of media of your choice, you will be tasked with undertaking a series of swiftly generated, highly experimental and thematically-related works within the first 6 weeks. This is followed by a period of critique, reflection and then an extensive period of further research, development and production. For more information about what you will study, please visit our website.

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26 January 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.

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All applications are considered on an individual basis and the whole application is reviewed which includes previous and predicted qualifications, experience, reference and your motivation to study the course. The University also accepts the BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate / BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma and BTEC Level 3 National Diploma / BTEC Level 3 Diploma for entry onto degree programmes, provided that they are studied in combination with other qualifications that total the equivalent of three A2 Levels. This may include subject specific requirements where necessary. If you are successful in receiving an offer, you will be invited to attend an Applicant Visit Day to discover more about the course and studying at Coventry University.

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