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Hello my name’s Louis Nixon, I’m the Head of School
of Fine Art and we are currently standing in the
third year degree show space
We have 2 undergraduate courses, BA Photography
and BA Fine Art, we have a range of postgraduate courses
in Fine Art practice, and we also have a number of
research students, who are Practicing Artists doing their PhDs
the BA Fine Art course is a 3 year modular course
and when you come to the School of Fine Art
we will take you through a series of workshops
Which are thematic, so you will come into the School
and you will study, painting sculpture, print making
photography and performance
And then as you progress through the course
you will become more specialised in a specific area
of practice that you’re interested in, so we don’t
segregate Fine Art practice into separate areas
we like you to experiment and explore all aspects of
contemporary Fine Art practice
The course teaching is delivered through seminar
presentations, group tutorials, individual tutorials
I think it’s very important to understand that we are all
Fine Art practitioners, so every person you’d come in
contact with in terms of academic staff , are practicing artists
Alongside well established BA Fine Art course, which’s been
on this site for a good 100 years, we have a new
BA Photography course, where the students specialise in
the making and exhibiting of photographic works in
a variety of different ways
We are very excited this year, because it’s the first year
of our graduating Photography students and it’s becoming
a hugely popular course. Summing up your experience
on the Fine Art course at Kingston University, I think
that we would like to acknowledge, that we think
that studying a Fine Art degree is one of the hardest
things that you can do, there are many
twists and turns and challenges that you go through
which you have to overcome in your own individual ways
And I think this is a sort of a unique experience of
education at the moment, where the students
the emphasis on the learning is on the students input
supported by the Staff in School
Many of our students who leave, going into art related fields
so some of them become well known and established
practicing artists, others go into curation
teaching and loads of others go into a variety of disciplines
and some of the best musicians, comedians,
advertising agents all studied within the context
of the Fine Art education
So we think it’s whether you become an artist
in the end or not, it’s a very important part of
developing your creativity
Hello I’m Phill Griffin, I run print making.
Print making is available for all students in the faculty
but it’s mainly used by Fine Art and Illustration
What’s available is etching, screen print, woodcut
and lithography and linocut, all the process
can be either digitally made, photographically made
or drawn. It’s really got how the Fine Art students
can use it as an addition to their
painting or to their sculpture to develop the word
in a broader sense to the different need to print making
Also recently the BA photographic students have been using
print making in various ways. They’ve been either
extending through the print making process, but also
been using a lot of old photographic processes in our dark rooms
A student’s recently been doing cyanotypes and
gum bichromate and also mundi brown prints
So, so they are all technologies feeding into and working
alongside new technologies within the Fine Art
Illustration and Photography