Overview

This programme at the University of Leeds brings students' developing art practice into direct dialogue with the study of art history. Alongside building an independent creative portfolio, students explore artistic practices and interpretations across a broad range of cultures and historical periods, with particular attention to how art and society shape one another.

What You'll Learn

• Fine art practice across disciplines such as printmaking, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and audio-visual work

• Foundational and critical approaches to the history of art, including how art-historical narratives and myths have been formed and questioned

• The relationship between artistic practice and theory, and how ideas of audience and distribution have changed over time

• Skills workshops supporting the development of an individual creative practice

• Extended studio-based work that builds on first-year foundations

• The wider institutional and cultural frameworks that shape how art is made, displayed, and understood

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to produce and critically reflect on an independent body of creative work across a range of media. They will be able to situate their own practice within broader art-historical contexts and debates, drawing connections between historical and contemporary art. Students will also be equipped to construct informed critical arguments about art, and to engage confidently with questions of interpretation, audience, and cultural context.