BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of the Highlands and Islands

The BA (Hons) Fine Art develops individual art practice across painting, photography, drawing, spatial studies and printmaking, with critical writing and professional practice. It is taught at Moray School of Art, Orkney, Shetland and Taigh Chearsabhagh in North Uist, in small peer groups with practising artists. Students have an individual studio space from level two and present work in a final-year degree show.

Duration: Full time: 4 years (5 years at UHI North, West and Hebrides); part time: 6-8 years  |  Intake: September  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Location: Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 covers critical and contextual studies, drawing, lens based media, painting, printed image and spatial studies. Year 2 covers creative practice, workshop, critical and contextual studies and professional practice with an option such as art and social practice or art and archaeology; year 3 covers creative practice, theory and practice, professional practice, and a research project; year 4 comprises the degree show and a dissertation.

Career pathways

Professional artist in commercial or community-focused roles, arts administration in galleries, museums or creative business, and teaching, lecturing or creative facilitation. Progression to masters such as MA Art and Social Practice or MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology.

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