Art

Studying art will help develop your creative talents and allow you to engage in a wide range of art practices, developing skills across a broad range of disciplines.

In a world dominated by visual imagery, artists need the right skills, reflexive approaches and attitudes of critical enquiry to work as effective professionals.

If you think you are creative and can demonstrate artistic flair, then studying art may be the perfect fit for you and your future career.

Careers in Art

Career opportunities in art are available in a wide range of forms. Whether you’re looking to work on community-based activities and projects as a community arts worker or develop an expansive set of skills in gallery curatorship, there are a number of pathways available to art graduates.

Many art graduates from the University of Glamorgan have progressed into careers in arts administration, studio practice, public art and postgraduate teacher training. If you’re looking to study an art degree you could also progress onto a postgraduate masters courses.

Art at the University of Glamorgan

Based in the Faculty’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Glamorgan offers a supportive and challenging environment to those wishing to undertake the study and practice of arts. From the popular Foundation Studies in Art and Design to multidisciplinary degree and masters courses in Art Practice, the Faculty of Business and Society has an extensive portfolio of art courses.

Depending on your course choice, your study time will involve formal lectures, workshops, demonstrations, tutorials and visits off campus – not to mention talks from inspirational visiting speakers. Supplemented with a series of exhibitions, the variety of our course delivery and the subject’s interdisciplinary nature is also enhanced by our museum status and proximity to art galleries and museums based in south Wales.

With a broad range of specialist facilities and art studios based on our Treforest campus, this only adds to a learning environment that gives art students the freedom to get creative and innovative.