Overview 2020
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- Specialise in 3D Design, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, Time Based Media, Visual Communication, or pursue a multi-disciplinary practice across studios.
- Participate in iconic festivals such as Dark Mofo, Ten Days on the Island, and Junction Arts Festival. Engage with acclaimed artists commissioned by MONA, TMAG, QVMAG, and more, through our visiting artist programs.
- Practice in generous and creative spaces that fuel your imagination. Our campuses, located in the heart of each city’s cultural precinct, occupy Hobart’s former IXL Jam Factory and Launceston’s historic Western Railway Yard.
Delivered by the School of Creative Arts and Media, we will connect you with visiting artists and designers through our partnerships with acclaimed events such as Ten Days on the Island, Junction Arts Festival and The Unconformity, through Artist in Residence and Arts Forum programs. This degree also provides global creative and cultural context, with industry, community and research opportunities available in Tasmania, interstate and overseas.
Be a part of Tasmania’s intimate and internationally recognised creative community. Build a closer relationship with staff, students, and industry through diverse real world projects and quality exhibition programs. Spend more time realising your creative potential studying art in Australia’s most affordable university city*.
Interested in studying art and design? Take a look at just a few highlights of our Current Students Work (PDF 3.27MB) from 2016.
* Student Cities Australia, 2016.
Career outcomes
Rebecca Birrell
Principal Designer, Birrelli
From designing a major installation at a UNESCO World Heritage Site to the label which took a Tasmanian drop to the number one selling pinot in Australia – the Bachelor of Fine Arts allowed Rebecca to approach design from a broad perspective. Read more about Rebecca
An award-winning London-based furniture designer. The friends who founded their own brand agency in Melbourne. A contemporary artist whose dreamy installations have taken New York City by storm. These are just a few examples where a Fine Arts degree has taken our graduates.
Find life-long engagement in the creative arts yourself, sharing studios or galleries with other world-class performers, designers and artists around the globe. In a world being redefined by innovation, design and creativity, a vast selection of exciting career opportunities present themselves:
- Advertising and brand
- Animator
- Art historian
- Arts administrator
- Creative director
- Fashion and costume designer
- Film editor
- Furniture designer
- Graphic designer
- Illustrator
- Industrial designer
- Jeweller
- Marketing and advertising
- Media and journalism
- Multimedia artist
- Museum or gallery curator
- Painter
- Photographer
- Urban planning and public art
- Printmaker
- Researcher
- Sculptor, potter or ceramic artist
- Sound designer
- Teacher
Course structure
Entry requirements
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
International students
International students should refer to the International Students course fees page to get an indicative course cost.
Scholarships
Domestic Students
Each year, the University offers more than 900 awards including scholarships, bursaries and prizes to students from all walks of life, including those who have achieved high academic results; those from low socio-economic backgrounds; students with sporting ability; students undertaking overseas study; and students with a disability. Applications for most awards commencing in Semester 1 open at the beginning of August and close strictly on 31 October in the year prior to study.
Find out more about Scholarships & Prizes available.
International Students
There are a large range of scholarships, bursaries and fee discounts available for international students studying at the University of Tasmania.
Find out more about International Scholarships available.
How can we help?
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- Domestic
- 13 8827 (13 UTAS)
- International
- +61 3 6226 6200
- Course.Info@utas.edu.au
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