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BA(Hons) Fine Art
The Fine Art programme at Kent offers a student centred experience. We encourage students to specialise within the medium of their choice, whether that is painting, sculpture, photography, or installation.
The course has been designed with a particularly intellectual ethos in which practice and thought about contemporary art are closely integrated. Students take a combination of history of art and aesthetics modules that inform and complement the studio modules in which they develop their creative practice. Students thus have access to a wide range of practicing artist-teachers, as well as academic staff in History and Philosophy of Art.
The programme is supported by excellent facilities, including well-equipped studios and teaching darkroom, a full range of supporting equipment, and a well-stocked library.
Teaching is in the form of lecture, seminar, and practical workshops and supervisions in which skills relevant to developing creative practice are taught. The creative work of students is further supported by a programme of visiting artist-teachers, each of whom bring their specialist knowledge and skills to studio teaching.
Student learning is further supported by visits to art exhibitions in London and internationally. Such visits are contextualised through lectures and seminars providing students with the opportunity to discuss the work to be viewed in the context of their own practice.
Each student is provided with their own space in a studio where they can develop their practice and creative identity. Students prepare their own project proposals, and will be expected to engage in a process of intense critical debate about their creative aims and the work that develops from them. The process provides the opportunity for students to reflect on their aims and achievements in order to develop as an artist.
At interim periods as well as at the end of their programme all students will have the opportunity to exhibit their creative work. Learning how to present work in an exhibition, as well as speak and write about it, are central to the aims of the programme.