Painting Wrexham University

Overview

The  Painting  programme at  Wrexham University  provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.

This course:

• Provides an in-depth exploration specifically of painting's rich material and conceptual history.
• Is structured to build your skills, creative inquiry, and career prospects within fine art painting.
• Develops advanced technical abilities and material innovations while immersed in critical painting methodologies.
• Emphasises cultivating creative thinking, conceptual rigor and employability.
• Progresses through practice-based research helping find innovative solutions to aesthetic and conceptual challenges.
• Will refine your artistic aims within contemporary painting.

• Is guided by independent and collaborative learning, you will progress through workshops, critiques and seminars aimed to foster a versatile, inquisitive and dynamic painting practitioner engaging with the creative economy.

Career

This programme is designed to help improve students’ employability, as it will equip them with the skills needed when working in art and design interdisciplinary practices, such as: 

• Art Teacher (Schools, Colleges, Universities)

• Gallery Curator/Manager

• Museum Educator

• Art Critic/Writer

• Art Consultant

• Public Art Coordinator

• Arts Administrator

• Community Arts Worker

• PhD in Fine Art/Painting

• PhD in Art History/Theory

• PhD in Art Education

• Additional certifications (e.g. Art Therapy)