Fine Art Painting and Drawing (Top-Up) BA (Hons)

Course Content

• Course Details

  The Fine Art Painting and Drawing (Top-Up) BA (Hons) year comprises three modules: the theory module, a career-development module, and the practice based studio art module which is core of the years’ experience. This module culminates with a large public exhibition.

  Students continue to consolidate, deepen and refine their own personal visual and theoretical position, culminating in a high-quality public exhibition at the end of the year. This is supported by regular individual tutorials and group class. Alongside practical work students undertake a critical study, which includes a dissertation option along with a number of other approaches.

  The Critical Study module has the flexibility for our students to target the specific area of interest to them, either academically or in terms of employability.

  The Professional Practice and Employability module continues on from the stage 2 Professional Studies module. Again, the various choices mean our students can select the option, which is of greatest interest and use to them individually (either academically or in terms of employability).

  Study Trips and Degree Show exhibition

  Each year we programme study visits to a wide range of locations. Recent visits have included London galleries, Venice Biennale, New York and Berlin.

  In addition to this, your year will conclude with the public exhibition of your artwork – the Degree Show – our showcase of your work for visiting curators, gallerists and the public.

  To see our students’ work, please visit our Instagram page: paintingdrawing.uon

  Please note the modules shown here relate to the academic year 24/25. The modules relating to the academic year 25/26 will be available from June 2025.

  • Stage 1
    • Critical Study (20 Credits)
      Module code: ART3018

      Status: Compulsory
      The purpose of this module is to enable students to develop a sustained, independent investigation and analysis of a specific topic within the field of Fine Art. It will require the demonstration of advanced personal and independent scholarship skills on a topic selected and approved through consultation with staff. To this end, the module will provide the opportunity for students to negotiate the form the outcome will take.
    • Professional Practice and Employability (20 Credits)
      Module code: ART3019

      Status: Compulsory
      The aim of this module is to provide students with a range of skills and strategies to prepare both their artwork and themselves for the external world. This will include developing the ability to professionally present artwork and manage the many other facets of exhibiting and making both artworks and ideas visible and available to a wider audience. They should build their working knowledge of the creative and cultural industries established at level 5 in Professional Studies.
    • Practice Exhibition (Fine Art Painting and Drawing) (80 Credits)
      Module code: ART4014

      Status: Compulsory
      This module consolidates creative and theoretical interests through a body of work and exhibition informed by contemporary painting and drawing practice. It makes complex demands on the student in the production and dissemination/exhibition of artefacts intended for intellectual and aesthetic consideration.

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