UCAS code

WW12

Unleash your inner creativity with the skills and confidence to fully realise your self-expression and solve problems with fresh thinking.

Studying art and design isn’t just about flexing your creativity. It’s about nurturing your critical thinking and problem-solving, so you can approach and tackle challenges with novel, unique perspectives.

Our BA Art and Design course empowers you to become a creative and critical thinker, able to explore practical uses for art and design. You’ll gain a wide set of skills that are adaptable throughout the ever-changing design landscape. You’ll learn about creative technologies, art and design theory, and how to tackle social and environmental issues with positive impact. Integral to fuelling your creative juices will be research and thematic study, giving you a solid foundation of knowledge.

You’ll work across various formats and with others to develop solutions to problems, demonstrating your ability to think outside the box. Exploring unconventional ideas and bringing them to life will showcase your creativity, innovation and adaptability.

Learning through doing, you’ll develop imaginative and responsive approaches to artefact and image making that utilise the exciting fabrication and digital opportunities of the School of Design.

Why study at Leeds?

• Hands-on practical experience: Work on exciting and authentic projects, with challenging briefs to meet.
• Supportive teaching: 92% of students surveyed say teaching staff have supported their learning well. (Discover Uni data)
• Learn in specialist facilities: Test your skills with our spaces and professional-grade tools, like our state-of the art equipment for polymer synthesis, fibre extrusion, yarn and fabric development, digital printing studio, and laboratory for materials testing and characterisation. Take a virtual tour of our facilities. 
• Access to experts: Glean insights from visiting industry and academic experts, including School of Design alumni.
• Showcase your work: Our graduates have used the skills gained from their course to exhibit their work in leading art galleries throughout the country.