BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art
BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
MArt Contemporary Art
BA (Hons) Applied Art
NEW 2008/9
NEW 2008/9
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art
A three year course for practical-minded and
theoretically aware people who wish to
experiment in a fine art context. During this
course you will be encouraged to produce
work that stretches your skills in making and
expands your theoretical knowledge. You will
develop your confidence in showing your
work and realise your creative ambitions.
Teaching methods include;
Lectures
Crit groups
Tutorials
Seminars
Field trips
Reading groups
Specialist workshops
Assessment methods include;
Exhibition, Essay, Notebook,
Presentation, Portfolio
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art
The course encourages you to look at a
broadest range of contemporary fine art
practices to help you identify and establish
creative strategies for developing your own
studio practice. We give you access to our
purpose built studios and extremely wellequipped workshop facilities to enable you to
achieve your creative ambitions. We offer you
the opportunity to gain and improve skills in
any of the following areas chosen by you:
Painting * Printmaking
Film * Photography
Video * Sculpture
Performance * Animation
Installation * Sound
BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
A three year course for practical-minded and theoretically aware people who wish to
experiment with different practical media in a contemporary art context. During this course
you will be encouraged to produce work that stretches your skills in making and supported to
develop your confidence in showing your work.
Teaching is delivered in a number of ways including;
Lectures
Crit groups
Tutorials
Seminars
Specialist workshops
Field trips
Reading groups
BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
We decided to set up this course as our fine art graduates have always found success in media art
and related industries, our academic staff and facilities for media based teaching are second to
none.
The course encourages you to look at a broad range of contemporary lens and time-based
practices to help you identify and establish creative strategies for developing your own creativity.
We give you access to our extremely well-equipped workshop facilities to enable you to achieve
your creative ambitions. We offer you the opportunity to gain and improve skills in any of the
following areas chosen by you:
Film Photography
Video
Animation
Audio
Installation
Interactive Media Performance
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art & BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
During these courses we will expose you to the latest theoretical positions associated
with art practice and we will ensure you understand the context within which you study
and work.
From the start of the course you will be supported in the development of your critical
skills both in relation to your own work and that of others.
Throughout the course we will deliver a series of lectures given by well-respected
internationally and nationally active practitioners, acclaimed researchers and visiting
artists.
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art & BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
FIELD TRIPS
Venice Biennale, late November
London Galleries, early November
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, October
The First
Year of
study
Associated Studies for Contemporary Art
Contemporary Cultures
A set of Inductions Workshops into:
• Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography and Video, Audio and
Animation
• Health and Safety
• Lecture program which covers; Research, Presentation,
Writing, Documentation and Proposal writing.
• Reading Groups
• Seminar presentations
A weekly Lecture and Seminar program.
• To introduce contextualisation of contemporary culture
• To identify key concepts and examples of Contemporary
Cultures
• To develop an acquaintance with the use of theoretical and
critical texts.
• To encourage application of textual and visual comprehension
and analysis in verbal and written form
Studio Workshop Practice or Media Workshop
Practice
Contextual Studies
• Lectures
• Studio Group Teaching
• Crit Groups, every week
• Practical workshops
• Individual tutorials
A series of talks by professional artists and field trip
Transmission Lecture series
Field trips, London galleries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The
Baltic, Ikon...
What happens in the second year
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art & BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
The Second year consists of three modules:
• Contemporary Art Studio, Workshop & Exhibition Practice or Contemporary Media Art Worshop Practice
• Contemporary Art Theory
• Contextual Analysis for Contemporary Art.
What happens in the second year
Contemporary Art Studio, Workshop & Exhibition
Practice or Contemporary Media Art Worshop
Practice
Exhibition Theory and Practice Group lectures and Seminars
Crit. Groups
Practical specialist workshops
Individual Tutorials
Contextual Analysis for Contemporary Art.
Transmission Lectures
Field trips
Contemporary Art Theory
Research and Methodology Lectures
Support seminars
Reading group
Specialist led lecture/seminars programs including:
Art & Philosophy, Experimental Film & Video, Art &
Psychoanalysis
‘For me, one of the highlights of the course was its
exchange programme because it introduced me to a
different way of life and revitalised the work I was
making.’
Chris Gibson (Grenoble exchange 2003)
EUROPEAN EXCHANGES
Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
(three month exchange - funded)
Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
(three month exchange - funded)
Tampere Polytecnic,Tampere, Finland
(three month exchange - funded)
Kunsthochscule, Berlin, Germany
(three month exchange - funded)
Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
(three month exchange - funded)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts, Paris, France
(informal agreement, no fixed term - no funding)
Ecole d’Art de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
(three month exchange - no funding)
Ecole Superieure d’Art Visuel, Geneva, Switzerland,
(three month exchange - Swiss funded)
Bauhaus-Universitåt Weimar,Weimar, Germany
(three month exchange - funded)
OTHER EXCHANGES
AUSTRALIA
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia (six
months stay - no funding)
NORTH AMERICA
State University New York, Buffalo (new agreement operational
2005/6)
What happens in the Third year
BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art & BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Art
The Third year consists of two modules:
Contemporary Art Advanced Practice
or Advanced Media Art Practice
Transmission Lectures
Degree Show preparation lectures
Crit. groups
Specialist advanced Workshops and Surgeries
Individual Tutorials
Contemporary Art Advanced Study
A choice of;
Dissertation
Placement and report
Seminar presentation and report.
MArt Contemporary Art
NEW 2008/9
If, at the end of your second year, you can demonstrate a high level of study on
either the BA Contemporary Media Art or BA Contemporary Fine Art course you
may transfer to the four year MArt Contemporary Art.
You may also join the MArt course from the start of degree. Doing so enables you
to apply for grants and loans for the full four years.
MArt Contemporary Art
NEW 2008/9
The MArt Contemporary Art is a four year course combining elements of undergraduate and
postgraduate courses.
It will appeal to those students who wish to undertake an industrial application to their study
underpinned by a strong research focus.
The third year of this course consists of postgraduate Research Methods and a specialism in
either Curation, Art Writing, Art in Social Contexts. In the fourth year you undertake a semester
long work placement or an international exchange with one of our many partner universities
around the world. The course is completed with a final degree show of work. The successful
completion of the MArt a further one semester of study will see you graduate with a full MA in
Contemporary Art
BA (Hons) Applied Art
NEW 2008/9
This course is a three year applied course focussing on workshop based core art
skills using traditional media and techniques.
The areas of study in the First Year are:
Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, Art History
+ you can take up to two Options from subjects such as Interior Design, Graphics, Metalwork &
Jewellery or you may take a module from the other Fine Art courses or learn a Foreign Language.
BA (Hons) Applied Art
NEW 2008/9
The Second Year of this course sees you specialising in two of the four core areas: Painting,
Printmaking, Photography & Sculpture. You will continue to study Drawing and Art History throughout
the year.
Additionally you may take up to two Options from subjects such as Interior Design, Graphics,
Metalwork & Jewellery or you make take a module from the other Fine Art courses or take a Foreign
Language.
In the Third Year you will specialise in one of the core areas, completing your practical study
with a portfolio of work and exhibition. A set of business development lectures and
workshops will round off your theoretical study and prepare you for your creative career.
Staff Work
Daniel Gustav Cramer
Andrew Sneddon
Alice Maude-Roxby
Staff Work
Hester Reeve
Julie Westerman
Dr. Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Staff Work
Paul Haywood
Professor Michael Corris
Vera Dietrich
Staff Work
Mark Purcell
Lesley Sanderson
Nick Stewart
Staff Work
Carl Von Weiler
Dr Sharon Kivland
David Cotterrell
The Fine Art Department
The Fine Art Department at Sheffield Hallam University is one of the oldest art
institutions in the UK, founded in 1843 as the Sheffield School of Art.
Today we are widely regarded as one of the UK's leading centres in Art research.
Our staff secured a top rating of 5 in the latest national Research Assessment
Exercise (RAE) putting us in the top 8 universities for Fine Art in the UK.
A £30 million investment programme is helping us take our vision forward, moving all
our activities into the centre of Sheffield’s Cultural Industries Quarter in the city centre.
Work is underway on a state of the art new building with Wi-Fi technology and
interactive galleries, which will provide a shop window for our innovation and creativity.
We are also investing in our facilities in two other city campus buildings. These will
provide brand new art studios and workshops, extensive printmaking facilities,
analogue & digital photo studio and darkrooms, video and audio editing suites with
video, animation and performance areas. The vision will be completed when our
current facilities for art, design and media relocate to the city campus in 2008.
Successes
Dawn Shadforth - music video director and winner of MTV awards, working with
bands such as Kylie Minogue, Garbage, Oasis and Bjork
Noble and Silver - comedians - winners of Perrier Award at Edinburgh Festival.
Recently had their own show on Channel 4.
Recent Graduate Successes
Jim Prevett
- Echo City the UK's entry at X Biennale of Architecture, 2006.
Created the central interactive exhibit
Becky Lennon - Digital curator of The Big Screen Liverpool
Charlotte White - London's Resonance104.4fm, London's First radio art station
George Longly - Exhibiting artist who will be showing at Basel Art Fair
and Frieze Art Fair
Successes
Nick Park – Oscar winning creator of Wallace and Gromit.
Rosalind Nashashibi – First woman to win the Beck's Futures prize 2003.
Represented Scotland at Venice Biennale 2007.
George Shaw – Successful painter exhibiting widely, recently shown at Tate Modern.
Showroom,
Art House Cinema
V&A Millenium Galleries,
4 galleries under one roof
S1,
Artist run studios and Project Space
Graves Art Gallery,
Municipal City Gallery
Persistance Works,
Artist studio and Gallery
Site Gallery,
International gallery specialising in Lens
and Digital Art
Facilities and Equipment provision
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Foundry, hot metal casting
Digital Video and Audio Edit Suites
Photographic Department, with analogue & digital processes
Printmaking workshop, Screen, Lithography and Etching
Bookable project and exhibition spaces
Performance, animation, sound and video studio’s
Fabrication workshops with traditional & digital equipment
PC and Mac labs
Resources
Bill Skrzypcak (Senior Sculpture Technican)
with Pheobe Wild, first year student after her first foundry session.
Learning Centre
Huge collection of books, DVDs, videos and journals.
The slide collection of 180,000 images is located nearby and has been
developed primarily for staff and students who require images for use in
lectures, seminars, research, essays and dissertations.
How to apply
We accept application from Route A and Route B for all four courses.
Minimum Tariff of 240 points (we accept less if you have an outstanding portfolio)
A Foundation Diploma in Art and Design is desirable.
We will offer you an interview where we will look for:
• A passion for and awareness of art • self motivation • creativity and visual
awareness • portfolios that include sketchbooks and project work • ability to
develop ideas
Your interview with a member of the Fine Art Staff will last in the region of 20-30 minutes.
We encourage you to have a look around our facilities on a guided tour; ring 0114 225 5555 to book a place.
Please consult our Art & Design brochure for further details or visit our website or ring the Head of Fine Art on 0114 225 2693.
WHY CHOOSE SHEFFIELD ?
Very Successful Fine Art courses
Major University city, home to two large universities
Excellent student accommodation close to campuses
The safest city in the UK for students
Amongst the most affordable UK cities
Next to the Peak District
'My Fine Art education at Sheffield Hallam was
more than just a line on my CV….
…. it taught me how to look, how to question
and how to have the confidence to make.'
Maria Fusco, a Belfast-born artist and writer based in London. She is currently editing a
critical anthology on independent contemporary arts publishing and is regular contributor to
international visual art and culture magazines.
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