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School of Art

Situated on our City campus, right in the centre of Brighton, the School of Art offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in fine art, 3D design and craft, fashion, textiles, graphic design and illustration. 

The school is a dynamic community of learning, priding itself on being inclusive and welcoming students, staff, the local community and visitors from across the world as individuals. 

Agility and fluidity of thinking are central to the school’s ethos, explored through the inter-relationship of analogue and digital technologies and the role of drawing - a common language with many ‘dialects’. Professional practice, client-based opportunities and competitions are part of each course curriculum enabling students to develop the skills to create and pursue freelance opportunities, or to enter the job market with energy and confidence and to thrive.

Art and design at Brighton is ranked in the top 13 in the UK and in the top 100 globally by the QS World University Rankings 2020.

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In this short film, Amanda Bright, Head of the School of Art, explains the ethos of the school.

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Undergraduate courses

City campus

  • 3D Design and Craft BA(Hons)
  • Fashion Accessories with Business Studies BA(Hons)
  • Fashion Communication with Business Studies BA(Hons)
  • Fashion Design with Business Studies BA(Hons)
  • Fine Art BA(Hons)
  • Fine Art Painting BA(Hons)
  • Graphic Design BA(Hons)
  • Illustration BA(Hons)
  • Printmaking BA(Hons)
  • Textiles Design with Business Studies BA(Hons)

Moulsecoomb campus

  • Journalism BA(Hons)
  • Sport Journalism BA(Hons)

Postgraduate courses

City campus

  • Craft MA
  • Fine Art MA
  • Graphic Design MA
  • Inclusive Arts Practice MA (PGCert PGDip)
  • Sequential Design/Illustration MA
  • Textiles MA

Moulsecoomb campus

  • Journalism MA (PGCert PGDip)
  • Sport Journalism MA (PGCert PGDip)

Postgraduate research degrees

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Short courses

Find out about our creative courses for adults.

News and events

See work by our Moving Image 2020 graduates

See work by our Moving Image 2020 graduates

  Check out the final projects made by our students who graduated in 2020.

Follow Moving Image on Instagram and Facebook

Follow Moving Image on Instagram and Facebook

Interested in studying our fine art film course, Moving Image BA(Hons)?

Join Fine Art MA course leader Amy for experimental Sound & Light workshop

Join Fine Art MA course leader Amy for experimental Sound & Light workshop

Artist Amy Cunningham is running an experimental workshop (Sat 6 March) in collaboration with the De La Warr Pavilion in which she invites participants to listen to and record sounds and images found around the home.

Fine Art MA students launch group show

Fine Art MA students launch group show

Ventures into Perception featuring work by students Jo Bell, Amber Franks and Trisha Stone is now live.

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Facilities

Students benefit from specialist equipment and facilities across the School of Art. These include:

  • Dedicated studios for each course
  • Wood and metal workshops
  • Printmaking workshops
  • Letterpress and bookbinding rooms
  • Kilns
  • A range of knitting machines, looms, linkers and embellishers
  • Screen printing and digital printing
  • CAD CAM digital technology
  • Dye lab
  • Laser cutters
  • Access to Mac suites - Adobe Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and Premiere
Arts forge at Grand Parade

Partnerships

The School of Art maintains a number of partnerships, including:

  • Student and staff exchanges with Nagoya University in Japan
  • Student and staff exchanges with Seoul National University in Korea
  • An exchange programme with MCAD Minneapolis School College of Art and Design
  • It is a Tate Exchange, Tate Associate organisation 
  • It works with local schools
  • It works with local museums
Nagoya exchange trip

Nagoya exchange trip

Research and enterprise

Photograph of starlings murmurating over West Pier, Brighton, by artist Christopher Stevens

Centre for Arts and Wellbeing

The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing develops research and enterprise initiatives that directly benefit the wellbeing of individuals and communities, innovating in a wide range of practices where the arts improve people's lives.

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Fashion student with a model wearing her designs

Work with our student talent

Giving our students relevant experience is a critical component of our courses. It also provides opportunities for arts and cultural organisations.

The university gallery in Grand Parade building

Hire our facilities

We have a series of spaces for hire in the centre of Brighton. The theatre can accommodate a seated audience of up to 272, with a standing capacity of 400, and the gallery can hold around 200 guests.

General enquiries

School of Art
University of Brighton
58–67 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 0JY

Phone: +44 (0) 1273 600900
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