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All students have a studio tutor who they have regular one-to-one tutorials with. This tutor changes every semester except in final year when you keep the same tutor throughout the year.But students can also have tutorials with other tutors. We operate a surgery tutorial system where students can sign up for tutorials with whoever they want. They might do this because of a tutor’s work or because they want more input. This also applies to visiting lecturers (we have a visiting speaker every week who does a talk, a seminar and two days of tutorials). So they are in control of this and can have more input at times when they feel the need and less when they feel they need that. However, contact with their studio tutor is regular.Students are also taught through group crits (involving staff and students often from other year groups), one-off workshops and regular strands. These will involve artists from outside as well as staff.The first semester of first year involves three strands that students choose from four options: painting, sculpture, printmaking and video/performance. This introduces them to areas they may not have worked in before and to the workshops, technicians and staff across the whole department. Teaching contact during that time is quite intensive.Art History is taught in first and second year through a day each week of two lectures and a seminar. This year involves researching and writing a dissertation. That is taught through meetings with the dissertation supervisor. And there is the option to do an extra critical writing module in fourth year taught in group sessions and tutorials.
Professional practice is taught through the LIfeWorkArt programme. In first year this involves weekly visits to studios, galleries and other arts organisations in semester one and organising an exhibition in semester two where students are managing, curating, fundraising, marketing, installation etc etc. Over the next three years they will do projects outside the university: exhibitions, public art, placements, education and community projects, art therapy etc etc. These are driven by the students, can be group or individual projects and are taught through tutorials. On graduation students are going on to be artists, curators, project and event organisers, work in education, community projects, art therapy etc etc as well as going on to postgraduate programmes.
Advantages are very much down to why you are choosing to study fine art. But I’d suggest generally what you should look for is: studio space, access to workshops, what the student community is like, how lively the local arts sector is – and what you feel about spending the next three or four years in that city.London is one of the major international art centres and is unlike anywhere else in the UK.Newcastle is a small city with a lot happening in it. It has a large visual arts scene, a lot of which has been developed by graduates from the two universities. Currently a large block in the city centre of empty shops and offices houses four hundred artists, four public galleries, four galleries in studio spaces, a bookshop, a DIY Maker Space, a theatre, a cinema workshop, various arts organisations and a bar run by one of those organisations. For example see:
http://thenewbridgeproject.com/
http://vane.org.uk/
http://www.makerspace.org.uk/ And that is only part of the scene e.g. See Baltic
http://www.balticmill.com/There are events (previews, screenings, talks, workshops etc) almost every night. Students are very active in that using spaces outside the university. Importantly that arts community is very open and welcoming to students and curators, artists etc regularly attend student exhibitions.So I’d say Newcastle is very definitely a good place to be an art student.