BA (Hons) Fine Art at Birmingham City University

Through the skilful manipulation of materials, processes, and ideas, you, as an artist, will be able to offer creative insights that shape who you are and how you exist in the world around you. These are valuable skills in the fast-changing and interconnected web of ecological, political, socio-economic, and philosophical contexts.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media  |  Department: Art and Design  |  Duration: 3 years full-time  |  Study mode: full-time (optional professional placement)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The course is based on four key principles: Making Skills, Making Public, Making Communities, and Making a Living. Making Skills will be developed through purpose-built studio spaces, allowing you to explore materials and processes in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance. You’ll acquire and apply technical skills in workshops and through collaboration with fabricators from across Birmingham and beyond. Modules include Making Studio, Making a Living 1: Developing Skills, Making Meaning, Making Public, Making Practice, Making a Living 2: With Communities, Making Critical, Work Placement.

Career pathways

With an increased focus on the importance of visible and viable career routes, the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Birmingham City University explicitly deals with the importance of employability by embedding professional practice skills needed to allow graduates to ‘make a living’ in all modules. Digital competencies, project management, communication and problem-solving skills are a few of the key attributes the course develops.

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