Creative Writing and Fine Art

Creative writing and fine art inhabit different traditions, but they share a fundamental commitment to making meaning through craft and imagination. Writing gives shape and voice to experience through language, developing a mastery of form, structure, and tone. Fine art, across its many media including painting, printmaking, and photography, explores the visual dimensions of that same human impulse to communicate and create.

Studying them together develops an unusually integrated and versatile creative identity.

At Aberystwyth University, this three-year full-time degree allows you to develop and deepen skills across both disciplines under the guidance of award-winning writers and expert practitioners in fine art. You will engage with a broad range of creative modes, building technical competence in multiple art forms while discovering what kind of artist and writer you are. The cross-disciplinary nature of the degree encourages you to think about how different creative languages interact and inform each other, which is increasingly relevant in a professional world where the boundaries between visual art, writing, and digital media are constantly shifting.

You will graduate with both a portfolio of creative work and the critical and contextual understanding that situates your practice within a wider cultural tradition. The typical entry tariff is 104 UCAS points.

Graduates of creative writing and fine art degrees work across the arts and cultural industries in roles including visual art practice, writing and editing, illustration, publishing, arts administration, teaching, and community arts. Many graduates build portfolio careers that draw on multiple skills simultaneously, working across exhibition, publication, and education. The combination of creative ability, critical thinking, and cultural awareness the degree develops is also valued in marketing, communications, and digital content roles.

Many graduates pursue postgraduate study in creative writing, fine art, or arts education, continuing to develop their practice at a higher level.