Art & Photography
Our Art and Photography courses can equip you for a career in the arts – as an artist, illustrator, photographer or in many other creative roles. Our graduates have gone on to be successful in a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, design, film and photography.
By studying one of our Art and Photography degrees at Aberystwyth University, you will develop an ability to interpret the world around you and an aptitude for critical thinking. In addition to the benefits for health and wellbeing that the arts can bring, you will be studying an all-round subject that will prepare you for all aspects of your future life.
As well as having many opportunities to exhibit their work during their course, our graduates have gone on to exhibit in galleries all over the world.
Why study Art & Photography at Aberystwyth University?
Here in the School of Art at Aberystwyth University, we are not just an academic institution but a caring community of staff and students from different backgrounds and nationalities. With that diversity in mind, we offer a range of stimulating, creatively challenging courses in Fine Art, Photography, Art History and/or Creative Arts - degree schemes that provide you with the opportunity to combine the practical, historical, theoretical and curatorial study of art.
The study of photography promotes critical thinking and an expansive approach to the study of art. You will gain an applied knowledge and practical experience of the techniques of photographic image capture and reproduction, and you will graduate with the skills and attributes that you need to flourish in your chosen field.
As a student with us, you will be joining one of the highest-ranking art departments in the UK for student satisfaction and employability success. The School of Art at Aberystwyth University is a government-accredited art museum that runs its own galleries, offering a hands-on study of art in a museum environment.You will be taught by staff who are actively engaged in research, and whose findings inform their teaching. Our team of experts include well-known art historians, practising curators and exhibiting artists.
The School of Art at Aberystwyth University is an Accredited Museum. The Museum and the Ceramic Collection houses over 20,000 examples of fine and decorative art: prints, photographs, drawings, watercolours, ceramics, paintings and sculpture as well as artefacts from the University’s former Art and Crafts Museum—including archaeological material, ethnographic artefacts, glass, coins and antique furniture.
You will learn the techniques and contemporary practice for the curation of exhibitions to museum standard and will present an exhibition of your photographic work in the School of Art galleries as part of your degree scheme. You will be taught by staff, photographers and curators who are very experienced in their respective fields.
Here in the School of Art we can offer the opportunity for primary-source analysis through our fine collection of rare and original photographic prints which you will be able to explore and study at close hand.