Fine art degrees

Fine Art BA(Hons)

This dynamic course is for you if you want to choose an exploratory, avant-garde artistic path. Our students work in all types of media, from collage to installation, sculpture to performance, text to digital. The Fine Art course programme at Brighton guides you in imagining, investigating, experimenting and communicating your creative ideas. You will enhance your creativity and develop composition, communication, collaboration and critical skills.

Fine Art Printmaking BA(Hons)

One of the few printmaking degrees in the country, this course lets you explore this exciting medium in all its forms. You will have access to one of the UK’s best-equipped printmaking workshops with facilities for etching, screen print, lithography, relief and large format digital print, letter press and bookbinding and wet-based photography. Links with arts communities provide opportunities for local creative engagement.

Fine Art Painting BA(Hons)

If you adore painting and want to push your practice and challenge yourself, this course is for you. Taught by an experienced team of acclaimed artists, the degree is well known and highly respected. One of the few painting degrees in the UK, Fine Art Painting at Brighton is studio-based and centred on vital hands-on learning-by-doing. Many of our graduates exhibit their work globally and have made significant contributions to fine art and related cultural spheres.

Joseph Ring, Fine Art Painting BA(Hons)

“The university has offered me so much, not only through the tutoring I have received, but also in the opportunities it has exposed me to, alongside meeting other incredible artists I share a course with. After my foundation there was really only one place I wanted to study my BA. Brighton really has shown me what can be done with painting and how open for exploration the practice truly is."

Agnieszka Szymaniak, Printmaking BA(Hons)

“I knew I wanted to take a course that would provide me with a good range of technical skills, as well as the opportunity to think more deeply about artistic practice from theoretical perspective. I knew Brighton to have a brilliantly equipped printmaking department. I am incredibly proud of the work me and my peers produced in response to the pandemic. We couldn’t have done it without the brilliant support of our technical and lecturing staff."

Voytec Brodacki, Fine Art MA

"Brighton impressed me with what I would call the magic of the place. My predictions were correct. I developed reflective skills, gained the opportunity to create exhibitions with other students including displaying work in a gallery space, developing my curatorial experience and organising and installing the display of my works with artist peers. Conversations, comments, suggestions from tutors, mentors and other students contributed to the development of my art practice.”