BA (Hons) Fine Art Bachelor's degree at the University of Suffolk

You are introduced to Contemporary Fine Art Practice and Theory. The module encourages open enquiry with an emphasis on research, experimentation with materials and processes and acquisition of technical skills across a range of areas. Your focus on exploring creative digital as well as analogue techniques and methods. They will begin to reflect on the multi-faceted nature of current fine art practice through guided practical application in; drawing, printmaking, painting, lens-based and digital

You begin to develop your understanding of Contemporary Fine Art practice and theory. The module encourages you to build upon the previous module in by constructing a body of work in response to a theme and via a written critical review of an artwork. The ethos of the module is to develop the ability to build a personal body of work based upon research. You are briefed on a theme and encouraged to explore it across a range of disciplines. This is scaffolded by an art historical/theoretical semin

You incorporate conceptual considerations of concept and site into your practice. Building on your experience in blocks 1&2, you are guided through a more substantial thematic brief. This activates an initial recognition of the entangled nature of materials, media, processes, ideas, place and audience. In response, you pursue expanded and experimental approaches in challenging basic assumptions as cultural producers. You also begin to contextualise themes of contemporary art practice with refere

You begin to consider how and where your work can be presented and documented and the effects this has on its reception. Continuing with the given theme from Block 3, you are encouraged to consolidate personally researched contextual sources and develop a body of work for exhibition. This enables the integration of primary research into your practical activity; and expands upon your understanding of the interactive relationship between materials, media and processes; between ideas and issues; an

You have the opportunity to develop an individual studio practice building on the knowledge and experience gained at Level 4. The emphasis is focused on initiating the establishment of an autonomous art practice. It is an explorative module encouraging experimentation and risk taking in your chosen fine art discipline or disciplines as you navigate increasing autonomy in the structuring of a sustainable practice. You stretch your imaginative skills with experimentation and broaden your awareness

You have the opportunity to further develop your autonomous studio practice building on the knowledge and experience gained in the previous module Establishing Your Practice. You demonstrate your understanding of the relationship between the artist, the artwork, and the viewer through the organisation, installation, and presentation of an art exhibition of your work. The realisation of the exhibition expands both your creative as well as your professional development. You will initiate an artist

Progressing from the previous modules at Level 5, you will continue to progress your practice whilst developing your ability to situate your practice in a wider framework. That framework is comprised of various elements: it can involve the range of debates, historical, and theoretical positions defining the contemporary art world; and it can also incorporate spaces, organisations, and communities not directly connected with that art world. These diverse elements often entwine in forms such as so

This module solidifies your development of your autonomous studio practice building on the knowledge and experience gained from the previous blocks. It is an opportunity for you to extend and focus your experiments and explorations in your chosen fine art discipline or disciplines. These include a practice informed by curiosity and imagination and a creative and speculative approach to the manipulation of ideas, materials, methods and processes. You undertake activity of creative reasoning that

This module establishes methods for you to create a sustainable practice that embeds challenge and exploration at its core. Through hands-on investigation and critical reflection, you develop a series of experimental outcomes that reflect your own emerging ideas and artistic concerns. Building on understanding of contextual and theoretical knowledge from Levels 4 and 5, you will identify and begin to investigate focused theoretical and contextual research that informs and deepens your understand

In line with the emphasis upon independent learning and refining your artistic identity in Level 6, you carry out advanced research that builds upon what you have learnt in previous modules in order to produce a dissertation. Typically this topic will often have strong links with your studio practice. The dissertation is an opportunity to study a negotiated self-chosen topic in considerable depth, thereby allowing you to refine and make more sophisticated your research and analytical skills. Res