Fine Art

About this course

Fine art is the discipline in which artists develop a practice grounded in sustained conceptual and material inquiry, producing work that engages with the ideas, concerns, and possibilities of contemporary art. Unlike applied design or commercial art, fine art is primarily concerned with the development of an individual artistic voice and a critical relationship to the world through the making of objects, images, and experiences. It is a rigorous and open-ended discipline, demanding both the technical competence to realise ideas in physical form and the conceptual clarity to know what your work is doing and why. At the University of Northampton, this three-year full-time BA Fine Art degree gives you access to an excellent range of resources and working environments for practice across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, lens-based work, and digital arts, as the curr

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 75% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

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• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 32 / 100Artistic, literary and media occupations · 25% of graduatescards →
• 18 / 100Teaching Professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 4 / 100Skilled trades occupations · 10% of graduatescards →

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