Course summary

The Department of Fine Art is situated in the beautiful St. Michael’s building on the Bognor Regis campus, with shared high-tech workshop facilities in our Tech Park. The dynamic learning spaces in both areas enable you to develop your artistic skills, talent and potential in a hands-on manner (painting/drawing, textiles, sculpture, printmaking), as well as offering ways to incorporate various forms of digital and lens-based media. Students from all levels and practice areas work alongside each other in our open-plan studios and workshops, providing opportunities to share and discuss ideas, skills and approaches. You’ll be given your own personal studio space to which you will have unlimited access when doing ‘studio’ modules, which, for full-timers, is all the way from your first to third year. Here you will learn within a professional, dynamic and supportive environment as you develop high quality original artwork. Lectures, seminars and studio-based peer-group critiques will support your independent self-directed work. The programmes are student-centred; they offer you the freedom to explore a range of skills and techniques that might focus on one specialist area or build into a hybrid practice that works across disciplines. You will be encouraged to explore boundaries, techniques and ideas that are at the cutting edge of contemporary creative practice. You are encouraged to find your own style and material practice, whether figurative or abstract, conceptual or more traditional in approach. Stimulated by new ideas and approaches, the sophistication and skills within your work will evolve and grow. Our fine art courses are exciting, challenging and deeply rewarding. You will be taught by research-active tutors and technicians, all themselves practicing artists, who will help you to grow your passion for art and develop your technical skills and ability. You’ll be able to exhibit your work regularly throughout the course, and are expected to participate in our final Degree Show that is open to friends, family, prospective employers and other members of the public, allowing you to showcase your work to a wide audience and possibly to sell some of your best work. Fine art at Chichester enables you to develop your creative, communication, digital and other transferable key skills alongside vocational skills via work placements that demonstrate how your passion for Art can be applied in a variety of careers.