Fine Art - Why Study?

Why study Fine Art?

• Multi-disciplinary courses
• Well equipped workshops for wood, casting and welding
• Printmaking workshops with facilities for etching, screen-printing, lithography and digital print
• Purpose built computer suite
• Fully equipped darkroom
• Highly skilled technicians to assist students
• Visiting lecturers
• Access to exhibitions, lectures and workshops at Dundee Contemporary Arts
• Specialist Fine Art Library
• Optional cultural trip
• Student exchange programme opportunities
• End of year exhibition

Careers

Graduates from BA (Hons) Fine Art have gone on to have successful careers in the following fields:

• artists (exhibiting and making work nationally and internationally)
• teaching
• exhibition curation
• gallery management
• running artists organisations
• art administration
• project management
• media & film
• arts marketing
• illustration
• web design
• landscaping
• furniture making

Our Fine Art graduates have gone to gain international recognition:

• Susan Philipsz, who graduated from DJCAD in 1993, was awarded the Turner Prize in 2010.
• Luke Fowler, who graduated from DJCAD in 2000, was awarded the Derek Jarman award in 2008 and was recently short-listed for the 2012 Turner Prize.
• Nicole Porter, who graduated from DJCAD in 2008, went on to work with acclaimed artists Odd Nerdrum and Steven Assael in Norway, Paris and New York. Nicole has opened her own gallery in Aberdeen.

Student Profiles

“I would have no hesitation recommending DJCAD to any budding artist as it is an excellent university that has provided me with the necessary grounding to start my career as an artist. Thank you DJCAD.” Read more...