About Fine Art BA (hons) in Teesside University

A fine art degree course at Teesside University provides studio-based learning that allows you to specialise in painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and/or new media. You have open access to all media workshops to develop your personally defined project themes.

Lectures, seminars and studio-based critique raise ideas and themes to explore the shifting status of beauty in visual culture and contemporary practice. You work with visiting artists, curators and writers who share their expertise during lectures and give direct tutorial support to your individual research projects.

Designed as an epic creative journey which, as well as producing a strong academic basis for the future, will live in your imagination for the rest of your life. At the heart of this course is the understanding that this is a huge personal adventure during which you test, unearth and begin to shape a voice that will be your creative foundation for the future.

The degree is underpinned by a visiting artist talk series, MIMA Mondays, where all academics and students gather to plan and co-develop projects and MIMA’s Community Day (Thursdays) where you are supported to connect with a broader public. You are invited to undertake an international learning experience alongside a series of national opportunities as well as exhibit.


Our fine art graduates have been instrumental in setting up a broad range of artist-led studio groups and galleries in the Tees Valley including Platform-A Gallery.

Teesside University provides you with individual studios from the very start, and access to latest facilities with skilled technicians that can help you create and innovate. We have a dedicated print room with bookbinding, a media centre that loans cameras and equipment, sound proof recording studios, green-screen production studios, Mac and PC labs, and a stellar workshop for wood, 3D printing, metalworking and welding. We are also one of the only art programmes in the UK with dark rooms to work with analogue photography and all enhanced by excellent technical support.

For entry onto Year 1:
India Standard XII – 65% minimum from all state boards.
Diploma from the State Board of Technical Education with 60% minimum (including MEng)
Holders of the International Baccalaureate Diploma with 28 points or more will be considered for direct admission to Bachelor degree courses

Advanced entry to undergraduate:

You may be eligible to enter Year 2 of a degree programme if you have a three or four-year diploma
Decided on a case-by-case basis – your course must closely match our own curricula

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The living expenses may sum up to £1,015/month, which includes accommodation, food and other essentialities.