Fine Art

This four-year programme is structured around three studio areas: painting, fine art media and sculpture, with an integrated history and theory of art component. All of our studio staff are practising artists and scholars with significant exhibition and public profiles. Our students also benefit from the vast cultural resources that London offers.

The Fine Art BA is a non-modular, integrated degree.

The programme is structured around three studio areas: painting, fine art media and sculpture. The programme is studio-based and you are expected to develop your own work with tutorial and technical assistance from a specialist team of academic and technical staff. Cross-area seminars and tutorial groups ensure that the three studio areas have a forum for the exchange of ideas. You will also benefit from a programme of visiting artists, gallery visits and other events that aim to develop exciting and rigorous debate. Year groups are mixed together in the studio spaces providing a lively cross-fertilisation of ideas and practice.

History and Theory of Art modules are integral to the programme and help you contextualise your studio work and negotiate the relationships between making art and the ways in which art is interpreted, displayed and understood.

You will take an additional module from another UCL department for one term. This will be entirely your own choice and can either be related to studio work or to develop a further interest.

Year 1

Studio work in chosen specialism
History and Theory of Art

Year 2

Studio work in chosen specialism
History and Theory of Art
Additional subject
During the spring term students will participate in the Study Abroad Preparation Programme, the successful completion of which is a prerequisite for progression to the year abroad.

Year 3

Studio work in chosen specialism
History and Theory of Art
Study abroad in Autumn Term (optional)
Teaching in English is offered at most host institutions; however, non-French speaking students must complete a beginners French course alongside their studies at the ENS des Beaux-Arts. No work placements are offered.

Institutions currently open to the programme include:

• Akademie der bildenden Kuenste Wien
• Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki
• ENS des Beaux-Arts, Paris
• Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt
• The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art
• Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
• New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
• The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
• Malmo Art Academy, Lund University

Year 4

Studio work in chosen specialism

A levels

Grades

ABB

Subjects

No specific subjects, but a portfolio of work is required.

GCSEs

English Language and Mathematics at grade C. For UK-based students, a grade C or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL provides opportunities to meet the foreign language requirement following enrolment, further details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/ug-reqs

IB Diploma

Points

34

Subjects

A score of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no score lower than 5, plus a portfolio. The academic requirements may be relaxed in exceptional circumstances.