It may be possible to work as a customer service assistant in a larger studio, answering enquirers and booking appointments. From there, you could become a trainee as opportunities come up.

You'll need:

restrictions and requirements

You must register both yourself and your premises with your local council for a tattoo, piercing and electrolysis licence.

You'll need to vaccinated against hepatitis B.

You may need to wear protective clothing.

The tradition of art runs deep at Sunderland, but we don’t stand still. We’ve built on this history and experience, adding innovation and modern teaching approaches to create a course that gives our graduates the edge.

Our Fine Art team, all working artists, have a wealth of professional practice and subject expertise to help you realise your art aspirations. Guided by these experts you will have the freedom to explore your creative interests across a broad range of Fine Art practice including painting, printmaking, digital photography, film, sound, drawing, sculpture and performance.

Working collaboratively, you’ll learn to see the bigger picture and will develop highly adaptable skills, alongside your technical abilities. Throughout the course you’ll work towards live outcomes, building your confidence as an artist to promote yourself, your art and to understand the impact you can have as an artist in societyYou will be introduced to a range of approaches to studio practice and have opportunities to learn how to use the various resources based mainly in Priest man Building. Alongside this, some of your teaching and learning will take place online.

A combination of online and face-to-face sessions will enable you to access the studios, workshops and equipment that will broaden your skills, as well as the specialist academics and technicians who will assist you as you learn. This flexible approach will enable you to stay safe, provide you with a rounded experience and enable you to join our community of learners.

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Start to develop your own personal studio Fine Art practice and exhibit work in the Fine Art Stage One show. You’ll be allocated your own studio space and have access to printmaking, wood, metal and digital/FabLab workshops.

Start to develop your Fine Art practical skills in painting, printmaking, digital photography, sound and sculpture.

Get an introduction to drawing principles, engage with diverse approaches to drawing using a wide range of ideas, materials and working methods.

Learn about some of the key art movements and ideas which shaped, and continue to shape, the world culturally.

Produce and expand your own visual work, and consider the form and the appropriateness of the medium in relation to idea, choosing from Fine Art’s wide area portfolio of subjects; painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, digital, performance and installation.

Develop your own studio practice towards installing a live exhibition open to a public audience or alternatively research and present a proposal for a participatory arts project.

Explore key cultural themes, examine your own ideas about local and global cultural developments and generate discussions about your creative arts practice.

Research and produce a self-negotiated project, produce and publish an artist’s online and hard copy ‘Blurb’ art book, which reflects and evaluates your practice.

Pursue an individual programme of work for your final exhibition, selecting from drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture or new media. Take a look at our 2018 Fine Art Degree catalogue.

This is a self-directed module where you select your own topic of research related to Fine Art or visual culture. The module offers two approaches in the way the research is demonstrated: a 6000-word written dissertation or a 6000-word document which includes a comprehensive arts related career plan outlining your research practice. This also includes preparation for an arts funding body application towards: a curated show, to set up a studio group, community-based activity or public commission.

While UCAS is best known for its undergraduate application service (the main UCAS scheme), it also operates a number of other admissions services:

UCAS Conservatoires - application and search service for performing arts at a UK conservatoire

UCAS Teacher Training (UTT) – for postgraduate teacher training schemes

UCAS Postgraduate – application and search facility for some postgraduate courses