Fine Art

Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University creates opportunities to work and establish professional networks from the very beginning. The course recognises that contemporary Fine Art is a wide-reaching discipline that connects with the social world and extends across both art and non-art professional arenas. We not only recognise this but celebrate it through a diverse and interdisciplinary programme that is responsive to a dynamically changing world. Our principal ambition is to create positive social change and impact through creative agency in Nottingham, regionally and beyond.

This outward facing course provides opportunities to build sustainable markets, grow communities and develop projects through core activities and initiatives that spill out of the studio and into the city, where art connects with people, places and ideas. Through our involvement in Artists Access to Art Schools, a nationwide programme that connects art schools with local and regional talent, the course builds relationships with professional artists and artistic producers. Students work directly with these practitioners to gain valuable experience, skills and knowledge.

The ongoing curatorial projects and events that are platformed in the industry focused Design and Digital Arts digital resource also feature strongly in this careers focused, flexible curriculum. The course is unique in providing professional standard resources and workshops, impactful research and staff expertise in both emerging technologies and analogue haptic production methods.

Our curriculum is built around the merging of these disciplines, from clay to code, and their critical application in professional, real world contexts with the core aim of supporting and sustaining Nottingham's creative economy. Through our partnerships with both established and grassroots city organisations and richly diverse communities, this course is a core component of a thriving city arts scene in which our students learn, live and work.