I have always found it quite difficult to explain to people, or myself sometimes, what a Fine Art degree is and why anyone would embark on such a thing. I don't think I ever intended on gaining an Art Degree. It was a very long and winding path that took me to it but I think I couldn't fight my desire to explore the freedom and creativity that it temptingly offered. Every course provides a unique, insightful and hopefully inspirational experience for its students. Some are more focused on providing you with practical skills and other are more theoretical. But ultimately its up to you to decide which course suits you best. Here are my thoughts on what I have gotten out of my experience at Sheffield Hallam Art Collage
1. Freedom. There is an unrivaled, and almost barbaric, freedom in an art degree. We are the makers, thinkers and doers.
2. Experience. You will get to diversify your practical skills, travel regularly to see art, have lectures (twice a week) from successful practicing artists and have the support form your fellow students and tutors (who themselves should be practicing artists).
3.Because it won't limit you. You can quite literally make art about anything you want to, as long as you come at it from the right direction. I have moved round from surrealism to quantum-mechanics and installation to photography.
4. You don't have to know what your doing. This is meant to be I time of trial and failure, it's how you develop a good working practice.
1. Freedom. There is an unrivaled, and almost barbaric, freedom in an art degree. We are the makers, thinkers and doers.
2. Experience. You will get to diversify your practical skills, travel regularly to see art, have lectures (twice a week) from successful practicing artists and have the support form your fellow students and tutors (who themselves should be practicing artists).
3.Because it won't limit you. You can quite literally make art about anything you want to, as long as you come at it from the right direction. I have moved round from surrealism to quantum-mechanics and installation to photography.
4. You don't have to know what your doing. This is meant to be I time of trial and failure, it's how you develop a good working practice.
5. Because you want to. I think to do a Fine Art degree is indulgent, you are doing what you are passionate about, and in many ways making is a selfish act. But what's wrong with that?