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Visual Art
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Degree with Honours)Specialisation (formal)Year: 2024
Overview
The Visual Art specialisation offers students, under the guidance of their supervisor, an opportunity to combine rigorous creative investigation with practice-led research skills – interlocking critical curiosity and creative enquiry to encourage a deeper understanding and capacity as contemporary visual artists and thinkers. The Visual Art specialisation introduces students to practice-led research skills and methodologies to underpin and support the creation of a major creative work and a related research paper.
The Visual Art specialisation seeks to introduce students of proven ability and aptitude to research training – developing their critical inquisitiveness, creative drive, and capacity to devise, define and manage a major creative research project. The Visual Art specialisation aims to produce innovative, ethical, critically engaged creative practitioners.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:
- plan and execute an independently devised major project in a contemporary art context;
- analyse and situate an artistic practice in a research-led context;
- persuasively reflect on their own artistic position in oral and written form;
- produce work in alignment with professional artistic requirements;
- apply analytical, critical and research skills in the creation of an independent project in a contemporary art context.
Last updated: 8 November 2024