Fine-Art at the Cardiff School of Art and Design

 

A real Art School in a real capital city

 

The BA (Hons) Degree in Fine-Art at the Cardiff School of Art and Design is an award that commits you to aim high and realise your ideas through the transformation of materials and process. We are proud and privileged to offer our dedicated studio spaces and workshops that resonate with the real look, taste and smell of a classic Art School environment.

We want you to achieve this through a combination of sustained studio work whilst engaging with the theoretical challenges of contemporary issues in art.

Video interviews with Fine-Art Graduates and Fellow 2010

We strongly encourage you to exhibit your work, to write about it and to visit and experience world class exhibitions in Cardiff , London and beyond.

As Fine-Art students you have many opportunities during the course to take part in Erasmus Exchanges across Europe, there are also yearly field study trips to a major centre for international art (New York, Berlin, Madrid ). The Fine-Art area also has a unique arrangement with the city of Venice for you to study at selected times throughout the academic year in our own special environment in this important cultural city.

 

You will initially enter as a First Year student with an identified staff team and dedicated studio structure. During this period you will be introduced via tutorials and an exciting series of workshops and symposia to the many aspects of contemporary Fine-Art practise and issues therein. Following this initial period you will be able to specialise in either Painting, Printmaking/Photo-media, or Sculpture. You will also be encouraged to work in a cross-disciplinary approach and develop an art practice that could combine aspects of installation, performance and lens based media.

 

We aim to develop your imagination, your ability to communicate, and more importantly to make your art with sensitivity, creativity and selectivity. By the time of the final degree assessments and exhibition you ought to have gained a confidence and understanding that marks out your platform as a true emerging artist of the Twenty First Century.

 

Professor David Ferry ARE
Head of Printmaking and Photomedia

 

Photos of Fine-Art students working towards their final exhibition!

Visit the CSAD Fine-Art YouTube web site, and listen to students talk about their experiences at CSAD.

 

Research in CSAD Fine-Art

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