BA (Hons) Fine Art Bachelor's degree at Loughborough University

Support the development of core digital competencies for the creative production of visual outputs. Introduce core industry standard digital production skills.

Introduce students to a range of contemporary fine art processes, practices, and contexts. Encourage the development of an individual studio practice through engagement with peer and tutor feedback, reflective practice and active participation in a collaborative learning community.

Introduce students to experimental fine art practice. Help students gain experience of iterative practice.

Develop upon the core digital competencies learnt in Creative Production 1 for the creative production of discipline-specific visual outputs. Introduce advanced industry standard and bespoke digital production skills.

Enable students to explore the creative possibilities within making, process, and materiality. Enable students to undertake and apply contextual research that examines contemporary fine art practices, materials, and concepts.

introduce students to methods of undertaking practical and theoretical artistic research individually and collaboratively.

Enable students to critically reflect on and identify the key themes and ideas in developing their individual practice. Enable the students to explore and develop new practical skills through media experimentation, the application of technical processes, and sustainable approaches to making contemporary art.

To be able to understand their own practice in its wider theoretical, historical and ethical sphere. To read art theoretical and historical texts and use these to develop their own academic writing and to communicate ideas about their own art contexts in visual and written forms.

provide information on a variety of professional career paths in the arts and creative industries and develop self-presentation skills for professional contexts.

Enable students to consolidate the development of their individual practice by locating it physically, contextually and professionally. Enable students to develop a coherent body of work containing outcomes ready for exhibition.

Introduce students to Fine Art curatorial practices within museums, galleries, and the wider public sphere. Enable students to curate, organise, and deliver coherent exhibitions of fine art.

Enable students to create preparatory and resolved works through self-directed experimentation with appropriate media and processes, critical reflection and analysis. Enable students to develop an appropriate independent methodology to prepare them for the development of their final project module in semester 2. Identify an independent practice with a defined area of investigation, which is situated within a relevant critically understood context.

Develop and present a professional standard assessment exhibition, which is the culmination of a sustained body of independent practice. Apply knowledge and understanding of relevant contexts, to construct a critical and contextual framework for the student's independent practice.

Give students the opportunity to select, design and conduct independent research on a topic relevant to their creative practice, degree programme or career aspirations. Equip students with the relevant skills, knowledge and understanding to embark on

Give students an awareness and understanding of arts management as a discipline, in the context of arts organisations and the creative industries. Provide students with a context in which to explore ideas and practices related to professional environments they may wish to progress to post-graduation. Present students with the opportunity to evaluate and apply information, resources and ideas to a scenario relevant to their career futures.

This module highlights the social production of art. It explores the extent to which art and cultural production contributes to protest movements and activates social and political transformation. Addressing historical and contemporary connections between art and activist practices, it will provide students with an understanding of the complex relationship between art, politics and wider social movements. In addition to facilitating the development and contextualisation of their own socially-eng

Explore how creative interventions can transform how spaces function. Develop theoretical and practical understanding of how creative practitioners can actively work to inform placemaking.

Raise student's awareness of identity and representation issues in character designs. Equip students with transferrable character design skills that could be applied to a wide range of creative arts subject disciplines.

Understand the core principles of human-centred design and fashion design, and how they apply to clothing and wearable products. Develop effective communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills in multi-disciplinary teams for the successful execution of fashion design products for a specific consumer. Compile a portfolio showcasing individual and team contributions to clothing/wearable product designs, highlighting the integration of human-centred design principles and fashion design p

develop the students' capabilities in co-designing products with generative AI (GenAI). Including project framing with Large Language Models (LLMs), using image-GenAI and other more advanced 3D model and video tools, and the ethical implications of their use. Upon completion of the module students will have gained an appreciation for what GenAI tools are available and which are currently popular in product and industrial design, foresight into how they are developing and what their future capabi

Introduce enterprise and entrepreneurial skills and practices for creative applications such as pitching, developing market insights and understanding a target audience. Build team working skills to collaboratively work with other creatives with different skill sets and backgrounds. Identify and realise an enterprise concept based on group research findings and personal reflection.

BioDesign and novel bio-material development are emerging growth sectors in creative industries, and are areas of inspiration and innovation across multiple fields, contexts, and applications- from product and packaging design to fashion, textiles and fine art. Explore key theories underpinning ethical and responsible design with and inspired by natural and novel bio-based materials and more-than-human stakeholders. Explore hands-on material innovation, experimentation, and development and build

To develop students' capacity for critical and contextual enquiry into objects as dynamic agents that convey meaning, function, and cultural sentiment across temporal and geographical contexts. To build self-directed, research-led practice in which students construct and communicate knowledge through an investigative framework of their own design. To sharpen critical awareness of the conditions, social, industrial, ecological, and discursive, through which objects are produced, circulated, and i

enable students to understand the capabilities and limitations of human performance from a cognitive, physiological and contextual perspective and how misunderstanding and misconceptions of these limitations can constrain design considerations.