Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts)
Highlights Shape your creative identity in an open studio environment, exploring diverse arts and digital media. Build your creative career as a professional artist, curator, gallerist, arts manager or entrepreneur. Experience study in both studio practice and art history. Your studies will begin with you working with a variety of…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Highlights
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Shape your creative identity in an open studio environment, exploring diverse arts and digital media.
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Build your creative career as a professional artist, curator, gallerist, arts manager or entrepreneur.
- Experience study in both studio practice and art history.
Your studies will begin with you working with a variety of media and developing your own interests, ideas and art practice, and skills in visual analysis. You also study art history and theory units to support your studio practice and are introduced to modern, post-modern, and contemporary art. As you progress you will learn to contextualise your art practice through presentations, discussions and supported practical experience in display and exhibition. Later in your degree there are industry-based projects and international tours on offer to allow you to explore the creative avenues that will let you develop as an artist.
Why choose this course?
A QUT visual arts degree offers you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the dynamic and transformative culture of contemporary art. During this course you will:
- Work intensively with leading creative artists and thinkers in state-of-the-art facilities.
- Develop a personal and critical framework to investigate the challenges and creative possibilities of today’s ever-changing, globalized, digital world. And learn to shape its future.
- Explore your distinctive creative art practice in our Open Studio program, combining experimental art and digital media, with a thorough conceptual grounding in modern and contemporary art.
- Tailor your degree for your future career, with options to combine your study in visual arts with areas such as interactive or visual design, animation, creative writing, marketing or education.
Real-world learning
Be part of an active creative community and gain the skills and knowledge to work in the visual arts anywhere in the world.
Enjoy a range of practical options including public art commissions, curatorial projects, independent publishing, artist-run initiatives and collaborative art production.
Build your career portfolio with tailored professional experiences including industry-based projects and internships at leading arts organisations, galleries and museums.
Broaden your global perspectives of art through international study tours and student exchanges.
Careers and outcomes
Many of our graduates become highly successful practising artists, represented by commercial galleries, and with strong careers in the commissioned and public funding sectors.
We provide grounding in art history and theory that equips you to communicate with clients, curators and employers. Graduates also pursue professional careers as curators, program officers or arts managers and are often employed by prestigious galleries and museums both in Australia and internationally.
QUT visual arts graduates are at the heart of innovative artist-run galleries across Brisbane. We foster a strong sense of community and entrepreneurialism. Our students have developed exciting experimental art spaces such as Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space and LEVEL ARI, and have also been the recipients of the prestigious Samstag Scholarships, Australia, Council and Arts Queensland awards, art prizes such as the Queensland Premier’s New Media Award and the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award, as well as the German DAAD scholarship and numerous international studio residencies.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Study at The University of Queensland. Learn with leading academics in world-class facilities and join the most employable graduates in the state. At UQ you’ll benefit from flexible study options, field trips, lab work, industry placements, research experience, and online study in Brisbane, Australia.
