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Your introduction to fine art studies at university level. You can use this course to discover the methods, mediums, and media you connect with. Paint the first strokes on your professional career in today’s art industry or work towards further study.

Undergraduate Certificate in Fine Art

Contribute to society’s artistic and aesthetic needs. Major in Fine Art for a demanding, but rewarding, profession as a fine artist. This art degree calls for a high level of creativity, self-discipline, dedication and a capacity for self-criticism.

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)

Artistic professions shape society’s aesthetic and social needs. Aspiring artists can choose Fine Art or Visual Culture (art history, theory and critical evaluation) for work in curation, policy development, public relations and tourism.

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Visual Culture)

Explore how culture is expressed in visual images. Understand how art informs our world, through the history and theories of art. Work in sectors where initiative, creativity and critical thinking are valued—curation, policy development, and tourism.

Bachelor of Arts (Visual Culture)

Draw on your complementary skill set when you engage with both fine art and professional writing. Create a career that calls on your cultural engagement, learn how to effectively communicate with an audience, and satisfy your creative passions.

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Professional Writing and Publishing)

Get designs on creating a future in fine art using paint and pixels. Animate interactive experiences. Draw on traditional and contemporary art techniques from painting to visual research. Layout digital design processes and principles.

Bachelor of Arts (Digital Experience and Interaction Design) (Fine Art)

Critically interact with fine art traditions considering the visual and social needs of society. Contribute to the artistic aesthetic. Design ways to network and connect to people and places. Draw on your strengths of self-criticism and self-discipline.

Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Digital and Social Media)

Art and Creativity

Drawing

Drawing from Observation

Art and Design Fundamentals

Fine Art Studio Methods

Drawing as Research

Fine Art Studio Processes

Fine Art Studio Strategies

Fine Art Studio Materials

Draw a solid base for your fine arts study with fundamental skills in drawing. Create artwork enlivened by your use of tone, body, and line and mark marking. Play with visual forms and techniques. Convey your artistic intent through the visual language of drawing.

Create imaginative art pieces using a mix of traditional and modern skill sets. Pick apart the relationships, tone and associations of different colours. Get your hands dirty exploring paint as a substance. Develop concepts and analyse your own work.

Shape your relationship with art and design principles. Explore colour dimensions and textures. Find creative solutions to problems as they come up. Get to know the practical and conceptual tools you’ll rely on in a career in arts and design.

Set up and complete multiple visual art projects. Take inspiration from themes and disciplines. Back up your practice with independent research. Wield a range of art materials as you experiment with colour, context and artistic fundamentals.

Identify your creative skills, techniques and processes and refine them. Present your own self-directed fine art project. Build a framework around your art pieces that unifies them conceptually. Show your work to your peers and fold in their feedback.

Fine Art Concepts and Contexts

Push your artistic practice into new places by exploring techniques and processes. Engage with shape and tone to convey artistic meaning. Research modern fine art studies. Experiment with new ways to conceptualise, produce and evaluate art.

Fortify your artistic style and take on a self-directed visual project. Use different media to communicate your ideas. Stretch your arts practice to explore architectural drawing. Play with composition as you explore natural and artificial forms.

Strive towards a studio research presentation. Think about how time and place affect your artwork. Learn to view your output through international and cultural frameworks. Experiment with techniques as you search for new exciting ways to work.

Restock the skills, techniques and processes in your arsenal. Unpack your development and research approach with your peers. Reflect on your work in terms of material, form and function.

Draw connections between the artist and their community. Reflect on the link between popular and cultural practices with contemporary art. Seek inspiration in staff-directed research. Harness your creative impulses to produce an original art project.

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