Course General Description

Expand your creative passions and learn to develop and push your practice on our BA (Hons) Fine Art course at Canterbury. Using a wide range of facilities, you’ll be encouraged to put your new-found skills into exciting and confidence building projects which help to establish your ideas and your artistic identity though experimentation and development. Your studies will encourage your curiosity, speculation of ideas and themes and support you to consolidate your practice. With the support of our staff, you’ll be encouraged to experiment with a range of traditional and contemporary media, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound, performance, animation and printmaking. Alongside your practice, you’ll develop a deep theoretical and critical understanding of fine art as well as important business knowledge and self-promotion techniques. There’ll also be many opportunities to meet other students, make friends and build networks, giving you a strong foundation to build your career.

School General Description

The origin of the University for the Creative Arts lies in the establishment of various small art schools in the English counties of Kent and Surrey in the nineteenth century. In Kent the first of these was Maidstone College of Art, founded in 1867, and in Surrey the Guildford School of Art, founded in 1856. During the second half of the twentieth century many of these small art schools merged, eventually forming Kent Institute of Art & Design in 1987, and Surrey Institute of Art & Design in 1995. These two organisations joined forces in 2005 to become the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In May 2008 the University College for Creative Arts was granted full university status by the Privy Council, and adopted its current name, the University for the Creative Arts, officially in September 2008.