Fine Art
Fine art is the practice of making work that exists primarily in the realm of ideas, experience, and culture rather than utility. It is one of the most intellectually open of the creative disciplines, concerned with developing your own artistic voice, engaging with contemporary and historical art practices, and producing work that makes a genuine contribution to the ongoing conversation about what art is and what it can do. For students educated outside the United Kingdom, the Extension Degree offers a pathway into this rich tradition that is specifically designed to support your development within a new cultural and academic context.
At Goldsmiths this four-year, full-time BA Fine Art Extension Degree has been designed specifically for students from countries outside the United Kingdom, with the aim of enabling you to work independently as an artist, generating and developing your own ideas within the intellectual environment that Goldsmiths is internationally known for. The programme gives you time to develop your practice, engage with staff and fellow students whose own work represents a remarkable range of approaches, and build your critical vocabulary alongside your studio practice. Goldsmiths has a global reputation in contemporary art and its alumni include some of the most significant artists of the past thirty years, and the Extension Degree places you within that community from the outset.
Graduates go on to careers as practising artists, often alongside other work in teaching, arts administration, curatorship, or the creative industries. Many build careers that move between their own practice and professional roles in galleries, museums, arts organisations, cultural institutions, and education. The critical thinking, independence of mind, and creative problem-solving that fine art develops are valued well beyond the art world itself, and graduates work in fields including design, technology, public sector communications, and cultural policy.
Postgraduate study in fine art, curatorship, or art theory is a natural next step for those who want to develop their practice or expertise further.