Fine Art

The hallmark of MADA’s Bachelor of Fine Art is our open approach, encouraging you to find and develop your own artistic voice. You will receive individual tuition with some of Australia’s best artists, have access to studio space and enjoy cutting-edge facilities.

Your visual language and conceptual skills will be challenged and enhanced within a rigorous structure and a supportive environment. You will graduate with critically informed studio practice and the confidence to succeed as a professional artist who can shape the future of contemporary art.

Through this component of the course you will develop key skills and concepts particular to your Fine art specialisation. Through lectures and seminars, studios or practice driven workshops, you will develop the capacity for independent cultural production within Fine Art and related fields. Interdisciplinary skills and understanding will be explored, as well as critical thinking. Students specialising in Art history and curating will have the opportunity to interact with topics and students from a range of relevant fields in the Arts. Students specialising in Visual arts will engage with and integrate specific professional fields from related areas into their practice.

Year 1

• Contemporary practices
• Introduction to visual culture in Art, Design and Architecture
• Drawing 
• Introduction to art and design health and safety
• Modernism and the avant-gardes

Year 2

• Contemporary practices
• International art
• Electives

Year 3

• Contemporary practices
• Electives

Applicants must also meet the English language requirements. 

Your application must include one original test:

• IELTS (International English Language Testing System - Academic)
• TOEFL (American Test of English as a Foreign Language)
• PTE Academic (Pearson Test of English)
• Cambridge English

Secondary school qualifications

• Satisfactory completion of final year secondary school, or equivalent, including English
• Satisfactory completion of the International Baccalaureate (IB), including English
• Satisfactory completion of the New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), including English
• Completion of the Gaokao (for minimum scores, see Gaokao entry requirements)

Applicants with complete or incomplete overseas tertiary qualifications are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Australian government scholarships for international students

The Australia Awards are prestigious international scholarships and fellowships funded by the Australian Government. They offer the next generation of global leaders the opportunity to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia.

The scholarships and fellowships are administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), and the Department of Education.

Australia Awards scholarships

• Contribute to the long-term objectives of developing countries to promote growth and stability.
• Open to students from participating countries.
• For full-time undergraduate or postgraduate study.

Australia Awards Leadership Program

• Offers leadership learning and development opportunities.
• Open to current and future leaders in academic, business, government and non-government services.
• For masters and doctoral degrees only.

Australia Awards Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships

• Internationally competitive, merit-based scholarships for study, research and professional development.
• Options of undergraduate and postgraduate, postdoctoral research,  and professional development opportunities.

Career options

Fine art will prepare you for a career as a contemporary professional artist and will provide you with adaptable creative skills that open a variety of career options in allied fields. A high number of our graduates succeed as practising artists and are highly visible in the art community, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Others work across the many opportunities offered in the professional and creative fields.