Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Visual Art

Program Overview

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Visual Art (Sherkin Island)Amharcealaín (Inis Arcáin)

Course Overview

This four-year modular honours degree course offers a dynamic and creative education in the Visual Arts. The course will have a particular focus on the investigation of the meaning of place, how it can be generated and regenerated through art-making and the exchange between the artmaker and her/his place and its people.

Course Details

• Course Title: Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Visual Art
• Location: Sherkin Island, Cork
• TU Code: TU977
• NFQ Level: Level 8
• Award Type: Major
• Award: Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
• ECTS Credits: 240
• Duration: 4 years
• Number of Places: 20
• Location: Grangegorman, Sherkin Island

Fees

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What is Visual Art (Sherkin Island)?

This course offers a dynamic and creative education in the Visual Arts, with a focus on the investigation of the meaning of place and its regeneration through art-making.

Learning Outcomes

On completing the course, graduates will be able to demonstrate an advanced comprehension of the nature, role, and potential of Art in the context of their community and in a wider international context, a critical comprehension of historical and contemporary developments in Art; and a thorough mastery of the materials, techniques, and skills appropriate to their own artistic interests.

Course Structure

The first two years are highly structured and are designed to give the participants basic technical skills in drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, and digital media, and a good understanding of the critical concerns and context of modern and contemporary art practice.

The final two years are increasingly self-directed, allowing participants to develop their particular focus in terms of medium and content.

Modules

Year One

• Semester 1:
  • Digital Media Intermediate Skills [Mandatory]
  • Drawing as Information Gathering [Mandatory]
  • Introduction to Modernism in Art [Mandatory]
  • Painting - A Shifting Horizon [Mandatory]
• Semester 2:
  • Painting - Finding Direction [Mandatory]
  • Introduction to Modernism in Art [Mandatory]
  • Digital Media Intermediate Skills [Mandatory]

Year Two

• Semester 1:
  • Painting – Figure in Landscape [Mandatory]
  • Critical Theory - Contemporary Art Practice [Mandatory]
  • Photography – Self and Landscape [Mandatory]
  • Digital Media Intermediate Skills [Mandatory]
  • Drawing: Self and Landscape [Mandatory]
  • Sculpture – Direct Response to Landscape using found materials [Mandatory]
• Semester 2:
  • Mixed Media– Convergence [Mandatory]
  • Critical Theory - Contemporary Art Practice [Mandatory]
  • Digital Media Intermediate Skills [Mandatory]

Year Three

• Semester 1:
  • Critical Theory - Practice & Product [Mandatory]
  • Digital Media [Mandatory]
  • Issue-Based Art [Mandatory]
• Semester 2:
  • Critical Theory - Practice & Product [Mandatory]
  • Dialogue and Direction (Art and Environment) [Mandatory]

Year Four

• Semester 1:
  • Critical Theory [Mandatory]
  • Professional Practice [Mandatory]
  • Studio Practice - Establishing Directions and Concerns [Mandatory]
• Semester 2:
  • Professional Practice [Mandatory]
  • Studio Practice - Establishing Directions and Concerns [Mandatory]

Minimum Entry Requirements

• Interview and Portfolio of recent Artwork.

Career Opportunities

Graduates establish themselves as professional artists and can also find employment in the cultural and community sectors as gallery and studio assistants, arts officers in County Council Offices as curators and as arts administrators. There are also opportunities for employment in the teaching profession and to pursue graduate studies up to PhD level.

Progression

Graduates who achieve the appropriate honours standard have access to a range of taught Masters, MPhil, and PhD degrees by research in TU Dublin or elsewhere in Ireland and abroad.