The Northern School of Art is located in a landscape of natural and industrial beauty. Which is at the heart of the North Easts thriving art scene. This exciting degree in fine art encourages high levels of technical skills, conceptual rigour and contextual understanding.
Students will work in a well-equipped studio with excellent resources in addition to workshops allowing them to explore their studies properly. This BA (Hons) Fine Art course has an embedded professional studies element to help you prepare for your career after graduation.
Students will be offered a technical training that will allow you to become an arts and media specialist. Challenging and extending the traditions of such disciplines as fine art painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video and sculpture. The wide range of superbly equipped workshops available to you will also facilitate the kind of experimental combining of materials and processes needed to explore and create hybrid art forms. You will be encouraged to explore art history and the context of your practice, in order to establish a strong personal visual language.
In year one, you will be introduced to a range of fine art concepts, processes and subject matters. In year two, you will make an informed decision about the subject matter, media or combinations of media that you wish to explore in your personal practice and have the opportunity to exhibit your work. In your final year, you will be supported in developing and refining your craft in order to realise your creative aspirations as an independent practitioner.
First Year
• 2D Practices including Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
• 3D Practices including Assemblage, Casting, Installation and Site Specific Art
• Digital Practices including Photography, Scanning, Editing and Video Production
• The content, form and context of your work in relation to the work of other Fine Art practitioners through debate and analysis
Second Year
• Your individual personal practice
• Confidence in directing your own work and understanding its context
• Your Professional practice through live assignments, work experience and collaboration
Final Year
• A honed exhibition of personal practice
• Work for competitions and commissions
• Dissertation which will enrich and inform your practice
• A plan for life beyond your degree
Our course has a track record of developing successful creative practitioners.
Our Alumni include:
• Jane Bizimana, Arts Events Organiser
• Mollie MacSween, Artist
• Alice Hogg, Artist
• Rebecca Hayne, Artist & Curator
• Aran Batey, Curator
• Mary Crick, Artist
• Zoli Fodor Jordon, Artist
• Sophie Heyes, Artist
• Abby Pearce, Art Teacher & Educator
• Sarah Burley, Art Teacher & Educator
• Natasha Pybus, Art Teacher & Educator
• Charlotte Etherington, Art Teachers & Educator
• Anita Sewell, Artist-in-Residence
• Lucy Bain, Artist
Our creative course is enriched by a programme of lectures, workshops and meetings with a range of creative professionals and internationally renowned artists.
These have included:
• Claire Davies, Video Artist
• Richard Forster, Artist
• Mark Jackson, Curator
• Nick Kennedy, Painter/Sculptor
• Ian MacDonald, Photographic Artist
• Narbi Price, Painter
• David Rickard, Sculptor
• Matt Roberts, Curator
• Dafna Talmor, Photographic Artist
• Godfrey Worsdale, Curator
• Nathaniel Pitt, Curator
• Jo Hamill, Artist
• Gordon Dalton, Artist
• Mark Houghton, Sculptor
Your portfolio is a visual statement it says a lot about an applicant and their practice. The advice below is not meant to be restrictive but rather offers some simple advice to help you prepare for your interview.
What we like to see
We would like to see work that demonstrates your suitability to study a multi-discipline Fine Art degree. Therefore, this can include: paintings, drawings,
photographs, multimedia, 3D work. We would also like to see your passion for particular examples of contemporary fine art and historical practice. Your portfolio might show a focus on one particular medium such as painting or photography, or contain a wide range of disciplines such as printmaking, sculpture or video and performance. This will be dependent on your personal interests and the facilities available to you at your school or college. The nature of Fine Art means that we will be pleased if you show a willingness to
experiment.
Show how you generate ideas & research
Your sketchbooks and journals will hopefully display your eagerness to try out ideas and show us which artists and exhibitions you have enjoyed and been influenced by.
Drawing
Drawing is a great way to show that you have good hand to eye coordination and that you can plan and visualise your concepts.
Our school engages with a wide range of partners working across each creative sub-sector to ensure that teaching and learning are in line with the latest developments in and requirements of industry, including:
Jenny Morten
Jenny has particular expertise in ceramics with the use of bright clear glaze and slip colouring and the use of incising and masking to draw and pattern the surface of her forms. She was educated at York Art School before undertaking a degree at Central School of Art and Design in London. She is a Professional Member of the Craft Potters Association and has work in collections including the Victorian and Albert Museum London, Stoke on Trent Pottery Museum and Art Gallery. She currently curates and manages the Morten Gallery in Bridlington jennymorten.com
Richard Forster
Richard Forster has established himself as an international artist of high regard. He is collected world-wide not least by the New York Metropolitan Museum and is represented by Ingleby gallery and Timothy Taylor Gallery London and New York. Richard’s meticulously detailed ‘photocopy realist’ drawings are underpinned by subtle political and social references and have a documentary approach to time, process and sense of place. He studied at Manchester Polytechnic before gaining an MA at the University of East London in 1995. His work has been included in exhibitions shown at Tate Britain, (London), The Whitworth (Manchester), Flag art foundation (New York), The Drawing Centre (New York) and the de la Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea). inglebygallery.com
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DR JONATHAN CHAPMAN
Senior Lecturer
Dr Jonathan Chapman is a Fine Art professional with more than 25 years of experience in Higher Education. Lecturing on and course managing broad-based and specialist painting and drawing Fine Art degrees and post-graduate provision. He is a committed educationalist, whose teaching practice is enriched by PhD level academic research, a national exhibition profile, and arts events managerial and curatorial experience.
Qualifications: BA (Hons), M.Phil, PhD, FHEA
DR TONY CHARLES
Lecturer
As current director and artist at Platform A Gallery in Middlesbrough, Dr Tony Charles oversees the contemporary art gallery, curating exhibitions as well as exhibiting his work nationally and internationally. With shows in Rome, France, New York, London and Middlesbrough.
A graduate from CCAD in 1999 with a degree in fine art, Tony went on to study for an MA in Fine Art at the University of Northumbria, before progressing his career and winning the 2103 Premio Comel Award in Rome. His works have featured in the 2013 contemporary artists’ publication, Nature Morte.
Qualifications: MA, PhD, FHEA
