Thousands of visitors and art professionals attend our annual Degree Show, offering an excellent platform to showcase your work. You will also have access to excellent facilities at Bower Ashton Studios.

Choose from two pathways - Fine Art or Art and Visual Culture.Fine Art develops your practice in areas such as painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, print, time-based or digital media.Art and Visual Culture critically engages you with your practice through the production of artworks and written text, underpinned by theoretical perspectives.

All our staff are active practitioners, with the conceptual, technical and professional skills to support a variety of approaches.Our City Campus is a creative powerhouse. It spans across Bristol and is made up of Bower Ashton and renowned contemporary arts centres Spike Island, Arnolfini and Watershed.

Showcase your work to talent scouts and potential employers at the final year Creative Industries Degree Show and graduate with an impressive portfolio of work.

Where can it take me?

Students in the programme at are regularly selected for fellowships and national competitions, including the New Contemporaries, a platform for emerging artists.

Careers / Further study

Our graduates pursue careers as artists, designers, curators, arts administrators and educators.

They are regularly selected for fellowships and national competitions such as the New Contemporaries, a platform for emerging artists.

Others progress to graduate study at MA and/or PhD level, or teacher training.