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Fine Art and Illustration

BA (Hons)

Develop your creative voice through Fine Art and Illustration, combining artistic exploration with professional skills to prepare for a wide range of creative careers.

UCAS Code: WW1F

Joint Honours

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Work in the stunning Art House, our dedicated city-centre studios. Be inspired by Worcester’s creative community, collaborate with peers, and develop your practice in a space designed for artists and illustrators.

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Overview

Studying Fine Art and Illustration together as a joint degree gives you the freedom to explore your creativity and the skills to bring ideas to life. This joint honours course combines two exciting and complementary disciplines, helping you develop a distinctive artistic voice while building a strong professional foundation for a creative career.

You’ll have the space to experiment, question and refine your practice across a wide range of media and approaches. From drawing, painting and printmaking to digital illustration and narrative work, you’ll explore techniques that allow your creativity to thrive. Working closely with experienced artists, illustrators and designers, you’ll be supported to take creative risks and build confidence in your craft.

As part of a vibrant artistic community, you’ll work in dedicated studio spaces and have access to specialist facilities. You’ll collaborate with students from across the arts, gaining new perspectives and broadening your creative horizons. Professional development is embedded throughout the course, with opportunities to exhibit your work, take on live briefs and build a portfolio that showcases your unique style.

This degree prepares you for a wide range of creative roles. Many graduates go on to work as practising artists, illustrators, designers and curators, or pursue further study. Others use their creative skills in education, publishing, galleries, arts organisations and beyond.

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Course content

Each year you will study a mix of mandatory and optional modules to explore your creativity.

We regularly review our courses to reflect the latest research and developments in the subject area, as well as feedback from students, employers and the wider sector. As a result, modules may change to ensure the course remains current and relevant.

Optional modules will run if enough students choose to study them. It is not guaranteed that all modules will be offered every year.

Year 1Mandatory modules

Research: Looking through Writing

Making: Space, Surface, Time

Drawing to Print

Image Making

Our course is designed to equip you with the practical and creative skills needed for a successful career in the creative industries. You'll be able to showcase your versatility as an artist through a diverse portfolio while also developing your communication, project management, and problem-solving abilities – vital skills in any workplace.

You'll gain experience working with design and advertising agencies, as well as national brands, through opportunities to collaborate on live briefs set by clients. By the time you graduate, you'll have a strong portfolio, and the skills needed to launch a successful career in the arts.

Our Fine Arts and Illustration degree could be the first step towards your career as a:

Advertising art director

Editorial illustrator

Graphic novelist

Fashion illustrator

Agency designer

Community arts worker

Graphic designer

Arts administrator

Conservator

Exhibition designer

Gallery curator

Arts educator

Opportunities to progress

Opportunities to progress onto postgraduate study at Worcester include our Art and Design MPhil/PhD and Creative Media MA. If you’re looking to pursue teaching as a career you may be interested in our PGCE Primary or PGCE Secondary (Art and Design) courses.

Jess Mason | Arts graduate

Course highlights

Join a community of artists

You’ll share studio space with students from all three years of the course, plus other arts-related subjects. Students love socialising in the Art House between lectures and getting involved in our extracurricular clubs, like Clay Club.

Teaching and assessment contents

Teaching

Assessment

Feedback

Contact time

Independent study

Teaching staff

Specification

Fine art

You are taught through a combination of:

Tutorials- The studio tutorial - that is the discussion between tutor and student in the presence of your work - remains the principle form

of teaching and learning in a fine art education.

Group Crits- Like the tutorial the group crit forms an essential, critical strand of the teaching and feedback that you will encounter. These are opportunities to present finished work or work in progress to a group of peers, that will then be discussed.

Peer Review- Students will perform peer reviews on each other’s work according to the learning outcomes and grading criteria for the module

Seminars- These sessions focus on the exchange of ideas, promoting argument and debate. They will often be delivered in response to something that you have been asked to look at, this could be a reading, a film or an exhibition.

Lectures- These are platforms for delivery of contextual and critical discourse. During these sessions you will develop your knowledge around subject areas, disciplines, and thematic concepts.

Workshops- These are used to develop your skills and will often take the form of a demonstration before providing you with individual and/or group opportunities to practice and extend these skills through mini projects with technical support.

Studio time- This is a crucial aspect of the course. You are expected to develop your own areas of study. You are expected to take this forward through research, experimentation and the development of a range of skills required to create a body of work

In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are scheduled on at least 4 occasions in the first year and three occasions in each of the other years of a course.

Illustration

You are taught through a combination of interactive workshops, lectures, on-site practical activities and studio practice. Interactive, studio-based sessions are intended to enable learning through integrated research led teaching which directly informs the practical based activity. The studio- based practical's are focused on developing image making skills, visual problem solving and developing a unique, personal visual language. Working in collaboration with peers is also embedded within sessions through group project work. Teaching is focused on delivering upon the University’s graduate attributes

Social responsibility

Many Level 6 students initiate projects that are focused on solving problems through design, such as educational tools for children or raising awareness of environmental challenges. Staff research projects SEA CHANGE project is being used as a learning resource which promotes ocean literacy and supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal UNSDG14 Life Below Water. Previous staff research project MIGRATIONS is also being used as a reference for Level 6 students’ independent project.

Reflective and resilient lifelong learning- Students reflect on their work on a weekly basis: writing blogs, critical reports and making presentations which also develops a sense of resilience when receiving verbal feedback and questions about their work. The development of a studio culture where students attend extra curricula activities and industry talks, encourages and facilitates a deep enquiry into the subject of illustration.

Problem solving- Different approaches to tackling assignments are explored throughout the course which results in students developing an individual approach to understanding the problem and solving it through a design process.

Teamwork and effective communication- Collaborative projects are embedded into several modules and students work together to plan and curate exhibitions at levels 5 and 6.

Digital citizenship- Industry standard software is taught at level 4 and 5, providing students with skills that can be applied to all future modules. The constant use of the VLE (Blackboard) to communicate with students and store learning materials enables an awareness of how to use these platforms to support learning. As all work is now submitted through Cloud storage and requires scanning/photographing, all students become skilled in presenting work online.

In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are scheduled on at least four occasions in the first year and three occasions in each year of the subsequent years.

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points required: 104Typical Offer

Qualification

BTEC National Extended Diploma

We do accept Access to HE Diplomas and other qualifications which may not exactly match the combinations above. Work out your estimated points with the UCAS tariff calculator.

Mature students

International students

Any questions?

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.

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Full time

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UK and EU students

The standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the academic year 2027/28 is £10,050 per year.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.

more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the academic year 2027/28 is £17,700 per year.

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Fine Art and Illustration BA (Hons) - WW1FApply now

If you have any questions, please get in touch. We're here to help you every step of the way.

Tobias Hickey

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, Illustrationt.hickey@worc.ac.uk

Dr John Cussans

Senior Lecturer Fine Art j.cussans@worc.ac.uk

Admissions Officeadmissions@worc.ac.uk01905 855111

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Key facts

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Mature students welcome

Start date and location

Sep 2027 - Worcester

UK and EU £10,050International £17,700

3 years full-time (part-time option available)

Placement available

Study abroad available

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