Visual Arts Subject Brochure 2023/24

VISUAL ARTS

Olivia Senior, Photography BA(Hons), 2022

Contemporary Art BA(Hons)

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From painting and sculpture through to performance and the moving image, there are lots of ways you can express yourself creatively. Our Contemporary Art BA(Hons) course gives you the opportunity to learn about current fine art techniques and practices in a stimulating environment, and encourages you to see your work in a wider context.

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Kirsty McEwen, Contemporary Art BA(Hons), 2021

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Do you enjoy expressing yourself creatively? Are you an artist and creative thinker? We’ll offer you the chance to explore different media in a range of workshops including painting, drawing, image-making, sculpture, installation, moving-image, digital processes, and photography. This will allow you to build up your artistic skills so you can select the approaches that are right for you.

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Contemporary Art and Illustration BA(Hons) ARTS

Auzeffa Khalil, Contemporary Art and Illustration BA(Hons), 2022

Illustration BA(Hons)

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Ellie Shepherd, Illustration BA(Hons), 2021

Photography BA(Hons)

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Photography is the most exciting and dynamic of subjects. It is this which has inspired us to deliver a course that will help you to become a specialist in the dominant visual language of our age.

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VISUAL

Katie Pickering, Photography BA(Hons), 2022

WHY STUDY VISUAL ARTSAT HUDDERSFIELD?

Facilities

The Barbara Hepworth Building offers high-end facilities, workshops and flexible studio spaces. The building has been designed with productivity, workflow, collaboration and interdisciplinarity in mind, creating environments that foster experimentation and provide you with the opportunity to realise your ideas and designs. The multifunctional central atrium space is circled with resources and facilities, which range from our Digital Print Centre to woodworking and laser cutting facilities. It provides the potential for open lectures, events and exhibitions together with performance and conference spaces. A highly skilled and experienced team of technical staff support the wide range of activities across specialisms such as knitting and weaving, embroidery, printing, reprographics, audio visual production and 3D design.

Create Lab

The Create Lab brings innovative visualisation to the School of Arts and Humanities. Students can benefit from the potential of developing and prototyping 3D models in an immersive VR environment, together with having the space and facility to experiment with emergent visualisation technology. The Create Lab enables students to showcase their work digitally, in a controlled environment, with opportunities for collaborative learning and state-of-the-art motion capture.

Global Professional Award

At Huddersfield you’ll study the Global Professional Award alongside your undergraduate degree, so that you gain valuable skills and attributes that we know employers are looking for.

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@AHHuddersfield

Our Visual Arts department focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration and encourages a range of transferable skills for employment within a diverse world of art and culture. We have a reputation for stimulating progressive art, combined with promoting live exposure and exchange with national and global creative industries.