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

This module introduces you to contemporary global visual cultures and artistic practices. You will critically explore intersectionality and interdisciplinarity through specific instances of how vision, knowledge and power intersect. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills to locate yourself between history and the present, as you begin to negotiate your own place within the social and political realities that surround the making of art. It will support you towards developing your own r

This module introduces you to the art world as an open system of interdependent structures and agents, in which you are already participants. It will: Support your ability to construct a critically reflexive sense of self as a developing artist. Help you create habits of self-documentation and self-reflection which are fundamental to both fine art studentship and a career in the arts. Introduce you to a diverse range of contemporary art practices, production, distribution, mediation and curation

This module will initiate the development of individual art practices where ideas are explored through a range of making processes. It will help you establish a working momentum and develop as confident, reflective practitioners within the studio environment. It will support you to critically engage with practice and grow your confidence to contribute to peer discussions of your emergent practices. It will equip you with the ability to develop the work they make in the studio for public viewing,

This module aims to: Introduce students to the key specialist pathways that make up multi-disciplined fine art practice, including critical practice, social art practice, drawing, printmaking, painting, photography, multi-media practice, film and sound. Support students to establish an art practice through material, technical and conceptual exploration. Introduce students to the relationship between contemporary fine art practice and broader social, political and community contexts. Encourage th

This module will engage you with art's ecologies and focuses on placement preparation. It will support you to: Practice your theoretical engagement with different art organisations, institutions, support agencies, structures, and contexts of artistic labour. Develop your understanding of social art practice and increase your employability. Undertake and reflect on a short placement in an external organisation that would benefit from input from an artist and/or offer insight into future professio

The module will help you consolidate and reflect on your practice while developing the transferable skill of independent learning. It will guide you in constructing a learning process distinctive to your own practice by drawing on a range of research methods and conceptualisation and making strategies. It will encourage you to extend your engagement with contemporary art practice through encounters with a range of practices, discourses, and contexts. This module will support you on the road to b

This module will further develop your practice through the key specialisms that make up multi-disciplined fine art practice, including critical practice, printmaking, 3D printing digital image capture & edit, virtual and augmented reality, motion capture, film and sound. It will foster a deeper understanding of the relationship between contemporary fine art practice and the broader social, political and community contexts through students' personal artistic development. This module will support

This module will develop your understanding of the histories and debates that define contemporary art worlds in their local/global dimensions. It will help you explore the field of contemporary art practice, its core concepts, histories and institutional realities, by looking closely at its production, reception, and intention, as well as economic, social, and ideological aspects. This module will delve into the critical understandings of race, class, gender and sexuality introduced in earlier m

This module will support you to refine a specialist approach that is underpinned by in-depth awareness of research, contexts, processes or technologies relevant to their chosen area. It will provide you with the opportunity to fully integrate conceptual, critical, formal, material, technical and theoretical interests and skills through practice and documentation. This module will shed light on the creative and critical potential of exploring relationships between practice, strategies of exhibiti

This module will consolidate your capacity for self-directed practice evidenced through the production of an ambitious body of work. It will support you in refining a specialist approach that is underpinned by in-depth awareness of research methodologies, contexts, processes or technologies relevant to your chosen area. It will give you the opportunity to fully integrate conceptual, critical, formal, material, technical and theoretical interests and skills through practice and documentation. Thi

This module will enable you to identify and deliver a formal extended thesis, presented according to academic conventions. It will support you through a sustained and creative engagement with a range of research resources, on and offline. This module will offer you the opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of an area of visual culture or contemporary art of relevance either to your own practice or your broader cultural and artistic interests. It will support you exploring the broad po

This module represents the culmination of your exploration of art's complex ecologies and prepares you for entering the arts industries as a graduate of Fine Art BA and qualified, professional, art workers. It will furnish you with the knowledge and skills to launch your career, from advice on funding to forging a creative CV and the right web presence. It will help you clarify the role that you want your practice and labour to play in art's ecologies and in wider society, locally and globally.