Art and Design BA (Hons)

This course promotes hands-on experience within the creative arts in disciplines including printmaking, lens-based media, animation, sculpture, painting, surface pattern, jewellery and ceramics.

You will learn how traditional making skills and the latest technology are combined to discover new and original ways of creating art and design products appropriate for our current creative market.

The course is also focused on encouraging the development of your own innovative practice while addressing the environmental and ethical implications of creating a sustainable career in the creative industries.

On this course you will also benefit from being part of Creative Arts Weston. Here you will join our exciting and passionate creative community, and you will be perfectly placed to join the arts industry, leading the way as part of the next creative generation.

Duration:

Full-time: 3 years (3 days per week)

Part-time: 4 years (2 days a week)

Start date:

September 2023

Location:

Loxton Campus and Knightstone Campus

Course codes:

Institution: W47

Course: ARTD

Campus: U

Course fees:

Full-time: £8,900 per year

Part-time: £6,675 per year

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Additional information about this course:

Although UCW endeavours to cover the costs of artistic materials, there may be additional expenses associated with this course.

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You will learn from professional practising artists, designers, makers and other industry specialists in order to acquire insights and share in their passion and expertise.

You will also engage with ‘enterprise projects’ including public exhibitions, work placements, live commissions, and competitions – all of which will help you to build a professional work-based portfolio to impress employers or be the basis of starting your freelance career.

The aim of the course is that you will become able to initiate and develop your ideas through to fruition – whether that is functioning products, decorative objects, installations or other outcomes.

Subject to coronavirus restrictions, this course offers optional day trips to galleries and longer residential visits, which in recent years have included London and Rome, at an additional expense.

In recent years, UCW art students have also collaborated to stage exhibitions at regional galleries such as 4AD in Bath and Centre Space in Bristol. And we also hold a Festival of Creativity every year so art-lovers in the general public can see the wonderful work produced by our students.

The course is delivered in our Loxton Campus, which is dedicated to the creative and performance arts, and we have invested millions of pounds in our new University Centre in the Winter Gardens on Weston seafront. The new facility includes a higher education library, technology pods for individual and group projects, classrooms, IT suites and social spaces.

Please contact UCW’s HEART student services team for more information about this course. And come along to our next Open Day so you can see for yourself how UCW can help you achieve your ambitions.

All of the modules on this course are compulsory and successful completion of them will lead to the award of the Level 6 Bachelor’s degree.

Full-time year 1:

Creative Industries (20 credits)
Culture and Meaning: Past, Present and Future (20 credits)
Design, Creation and Production (20 credits)
Design: Digital, Materials, Making (40 credits)
Portfolio (20 credits)

Full-time year 2:

Collaboration (20 credits)
Developing Studio Production (40 credits)
Research for Development (40 credits)
Sustainable Design (20 credits)

Full-time year 3:

Future Planning (40 credits)
Practice Research (20 credits)
Studio Production(60 credits)

This course is taught via a combination of lectures, seminars, studio practice, presentations, case studies and workshops. UCW’s Higher Education Library Plus (HE.LP) team also deliver a series of sessions on degree-level research and academic writing to all first-year students. When not in scheduled lecturers and seminars, students are expected to continue learning through independent self-study. This involves reading relevant literature, working on individual and group projects, and undertaking research in preparation for coursework and exams.

This course has an average of 12 hours of scheduled teaching per week.

Please click on the Course Handbook button to find out more, including how it is delivered on a part-time basis.

Graduates are eligible to apply for postgraduate courses such as the Master’s Degrees in Design, Fine Art or Visual Communication at Bath Spa University.
As well as freelance art and design, graduates of this course are also able to seek roles in animation or illustration, in interior or product design, in printmaking, or in related roles for museums and galleries.

Industry insight

The UK is the second largest art market in the world, with a 21% market share (British Art Market Federation data).

A minimum of CDD at A Level, or a BTEC Extended Diploma at MMP, or a T Level Pass, or equivalent, preferably in a related area. Applications from those studying two A Levels or alternative Level 3 qualifications will be considered on an individual basis. Applicants are also required to submit a creative portfolio of work and attend an interview.

Applicants with a level 5 qualification such as HND, Foundation Degree, or equivalent can be considered for 3rd year entry. Please contact admissions@ucw.ac.uk to discuss your application further.

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Meet our Team

Kari Nygard

Lecturer

Kari Nygard is an artist filmmaker and animator with over 20 years' experience teaching lens-based media- and art and design within Higher Education. She has considerable experience as an animation lead for a variety of production companies and charities, alongside work in film exhibition and curation, in the UK and abroad. Research interests are in contemporary cinematic forms and expanded media, with her own practice across digital & analogue formats. She is also commitment to her work at The Cube Cinema in Bristol.

Simon Taylor

Lecturer

Simon Taylor is a practicing Ceramic Artist, lecturing and tutoring in Higher Education. Simon exhibits through several national ceramic galleries, being represented by St Ives ceramics and The Stratford Gallery and has a growing international reputation. Simon practices from his studio in Weston’s Old Town Quary. Current Research practice investigates the experimental firing of the ancient and alternative ‘Anagama’ Woodfired Kiln. His teaching uses a rich blend of creative enthusiasm mixed with his passion and current activities as an Artist/maker.

Jamie Dormer-Durling

Programme Coordinator/Lecturer

Jamie is the programme coordinator for the BA (Hons) Art & Design. He has worked in Higher Education for over a decade teaching across photography, lens-based media and art & design pathways. He has a degree in photography and completed his MA in Graphic Arts (with distinction) in 2017. His personal work investigates the dynamics of knowledge and power with interests in how we learn, how we are taught, the nature of knowledge and how our understanding of the world informs class struggle and identity politics. He often works between museum spaces and field studies exploring the relationships we have to the objects that are used to narrate our cultural histories.

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