Undergraduate Degrees
We’ve built a reputation for teaching technical skills, encouraging and enabling creative vision, and supporting all who join our vibrant and welcoming community. From short, evening and weekend courses to academic courses for people serious about developing their artistic practice and becoming professionals, we offer the best quality art tuition to support your development.
We believe the best way to learn is from experts, so our classes are taught by highly skilled, practising artists, including prize-winners, members of leading art organisations and artists with work in national collections. Furthermore, we keep our class sizes small, so that everyone gets a hands-on experience. Our specialist undergraduate degree courses include a three-year BA (Hons) Fine Art and BA (Hons) Contemporary Portraiture, both of which can be studied part-time over six years.
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Full Time: 3 years, 2.5 to 4 days per week in taught sessions (depending on stage and term), 10.30am – 4.30pm, plus independent study
Part Time: 6 years, 1 to 2 days per week in taught sessions (depending on stage and term), 10.30am – 4.30pm, plus independent study
Our Fine Art BA is designed for those aiming to establish an artistic practice. It gives you the freedom to pursue your own interests and aptitudes through a bespoke programme of study.
Our teaching approach is unique: we keep our class sizes small (do we include the approximate ratio number), and you’ll benefit from the highest tutor contact hours of any higher education art course in the UK. You’ll learn both traditional and contemporary skills from expert tutors who are all practising artists themselves.
As well as helping you develop the in-depth technical skills needed to take your art practice forward, you’ll be encouraged to think critically about the wider theoretical and historical contexts of your discipline(s), and apply that knowledge to your practical work.
All academic students are able to take advantage of free places on the Academy’s public courses (evening, weekend and short courses). These are available at the discretion of the Academy and subject to availability.
Our BA (Hons) Fine Art is validated by The Open University.
Full Time: 3 years, 2.5 to 4 days per week in taught sessions (depending on stage and term), 10.30am – 4.30pm, plus independent study
Part Time: 6 years, 1 to 2 days per week in taught sessions (depending on stage and term), 10.30am – 4.30pm, plus independent study
As well as helping you develop the in-depth technical skills needed to take your art practice forward, you’ll be encouraged to think critically about the wider theoretical and historical contexts of contemporary portraiture and apply that knowledge to your practical work.
And to further enrich your study, you’ll have access to lectures and talks by eminent visiting artists, open access to our print studio, a session learning to sculpt a portrait head (and access to further sculpture classes) and can drop in to Open Life sessions on weekend mornings. You can also take advantage of free places on our other evening, weekend and short courses (These are available at the discretion of the Academy and subject to availability).