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Find out about Creative Spark, our annual graduate showcase of final year students' work, and Brightest Spark, an exhibition featuring projects completed by our elite students.
View the Creative Spark image gallery, taken from the 2010 graduate showcase of final year students' work.
View a 360 degree tour of our print making studio.
View a 360 degree tour of our print making studio.
View a 360 degree tour of our model making workshop used to make prototypes of students’ designs.
Our Digital Design Centre can print medium to large format high quality outputs on a range of different media. The laboratories have software supporting 2D and 3D engineering and creative design applications. Find out more.
One of the most valuable resources available for you to access is our highly experienced technical support team. Find out how they can help support your development.
View profiles of the staff who teach in this subject area.
This course focuses on traditional art forms and practices. You develop your art practice using traditional media.
Drawing is a central part of the course in levels one and two.
At level one, you take workshops in • sculpture • painting • printmaking • photography. You study art, history and theory to help place your practical work in a wider context. You also choose an optional module from any available in the faculty or take a foreign language.
During level two, you choose two subjects from • sculpture • painting • printmaking • photography. You choose another optional module from any available in the faculty or continue studying a foreign language.
At level three, you specialise in either • drawing • sculpture • painting • printmaking • photography. You also study a module that develops business and work-based knowledge to help you reach your goals after graduation.
Towards the end of the course, you develop a large body of work which you exhibit in a professional environment.
To develop your ability, you attend specialist workshops with skilled technicians. We have modern and well-equipped facilities for art practice, such as
• wood machinery
• metal machinery including welding and foundry facilities
• printmaking – this area supports activities including • etching • drypoint • cyanotype • lithography • screen printing
• a photography department with black and white, and colour dark room facilities
This is a workshop-based art course that explores traditional practices and processes of making through painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography.
Find out more about BA (Honours) Creative Art Practice
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Part-time – typically six years, maximum eight years
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £4,500 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
• exhibition • portfolio • essay • visual and verbal presentation
Exhibition at the Millennium Galleries, opposite City Campus
Spark - be creative
Subjects included are • animation • architecture • computers • creative writing • digital media production • engineering • fashion design • film and visual effects • film and media production • fine art • furniture and product design • games design • graphic design • interior design • jewellery and metalwork • performing arts • photography • product design.
Creative Spark
Creative Spark is an annual showcase of student work and celebrates the innovation, creativity and imagination of our most talented graduates. Creative Spark is hosted across four university venues • Owen • Cantor • Sheaf • Arundel Gate Court and S1 in the city centre.
For further information visit the Creative Spark website.
Brightest Spark
Brightest Spark is an exhibition housed in the SIA Gallery and Cantor building. This exhibition features the elite students in each Sheffield of Institute of Arts course as chosen by industry professionals.
For further information visit the Brightest Spark website.
Project Spark
Sheffield Hallam students have the opportunity to play a key role in the promotion of the Creative Spark and Brightest Spark exhibitions by submitting entries for Project Spark. The 2012 competitions included • concept design • branding and wayfinding • creative writing • image • brightest spark logo and branding.
For further information visit the Project Spark website.
Students' work on display at the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery.
BA (Hons) photography students exhibited their work in the Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery.
An example of a contemporary fine art project.
Laura Hayes final year project for BA (Hons) Contemporary Fine Art.
An example of an animation modelling project.
BA (Hons) Animation modelling work on display for Thomas Lloyd's final year project entitled The Window Pianist.
An example of a metalwork and jewellery piece.
Emma Middleton's jewellery piece for BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery.
The concept behind Emma's work is based on the idea of sentimental jewellery and the burden this can become on the wearer.
An example of an animation modelling project.
BA (Hons) Animation modelling work by Luke Adams for his final year project entitled Uneasy Rider.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Graphic students work on display.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Work displayed by engineering students.
Four students' workbooks on display.
BA (Hons) Interior Design student workbooks (Shamila Hussain, Faiza Khan, Naomi Nunn and Helen Genia Austin).
A collaboration between fashion and engineering students.
A collaboration between fashion and engineering students creating a wedding dress that could be dissolved after the wedding to transform it into five new fashion pieces.
This went on to achieve international acclaim.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Work displayed by interior design students.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery students work on display.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
BA (Hons) Product Design work.
Students' workbooks on display.
A visitor to Creative Spark looking at students' workbooks for BA (Hons) Product Design.
Part of the Creative Spark exhibition.
Work on display from the Extended degree in Design.
An example of a final year metalwork and jewellery project.
Final year project for BA (Hons) Metalwork and Jewellery.
Gallery
Print making studio
Our print making studio supports a wide range of print activities including etching, drypoint, cyanotype, lithography and screen printing.
Art and design print making studio 1
Our print making studio supports a wide range of print activities including etching, drypoint, cyanotype, lithography and screen printing.
Model making workshop
Model making workshop used to make prototypes of students’ designs.
The Digital Design Centre
The Digital Design Centre comprises a suite of 6 IT laboratories (4 PC and 2 MAC) together with the Print Output room, an area for printing medium to large format high quality output on a range of different media. The laboratories have a wide range of software supporting 2D and 3D engineering and creative design applications.
The Digital Design Centre runs a high quality computer printing facility and has the ability to print sizes between A4 and A0 and wide format banners. A3, A2, A1, A0 and Banner photo quality printing is available on a range of papers, as well as AutoCAD type plans ( B & W ) on standard paper.
Technical support team
While you will find excellent facilities throughout, the most valuable resource you will have at your disposal is access to our extremely dedicated, highly experienced technical staff.
All the staff are there to support you during your time in the workshops. The technical team with its professionally qualified staff and practicing professionals, has a wealth of knowledge and expertise across all areas of our provision and comprises engineers, designers, silversmiths and jewellers, fine artists, media arts specialists and IT experts.
The team are committed to using their diverse range of skills and knowledge to support practical aspects of your
course work, whether solving a simple software problem, producing a complex engineering project or creating design work for an international exhibition. There are currently 50 technical staff directly supporting the Technical Resource Centres and the research institutes of the faculty.
Andrew Sneddon
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
'I am a Scottish artist and senior lecturer in fine art and creative art practice at Sheffield Hallam University and also lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art. I have an MA and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art and studied at the British School at Rome. I have exhibited nationally and internationally, and currently engaged in a practice-led PhD at the University of Edinburgh. My practice and PhD are concerned with exploring our complex relations with place and the decision-making process of the artist in response to context and situation.
'I have also contributed to three chap-book publications that feature Alec Finlay, Jeremy Millar and Roddy Buchanan. I have recently contributed to a number of conferences with papers entitled ‘Two naked men and an open fire’, ‘I don’t know what I’m looking for but I’ll know it when I see it’ and ‘The act of improvisation in the work of Tacita Dean’. I also co-organise an interdisciplinary project called ‘GRAVITY’ that was launched in 2010 as a forum for debates about the visual as a critical domain within the creative industries. This research project examines the myriad ways the art world deals with its ambivalent and yet enduring relationship with the artefact.'
Gary Simmonds
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
'I am a senior lecturer working across the creative art practice and fine art degree courses, from undergraduate to postgraduate level. I am level and module leader for the first year of the creative art practice degree course. I teach on both studio and theory modules across the fine art subject area, including supervising PhD research student. I have had a number of roles including course leadership of the Extended Degree in Art and BA (Honours) Creative Art Practice. I am currently the link-tutor to Hillsborough College in creative art practice and level and module leader for the first year of the creative art practice degree course.
'My own research is in painting. My practice is concerned with abstract painting’s relationship to geometry, design and ornamentation. I make paintings that flirt with: formal abstraction, beauty decoration and disorder. I have exhibited my work both nationally and internationally including solo shows in London and Milan and group shows at the South London Gallery, London and LoBe projects in Berlin. I have a forthcoming exhibition at the Westlane Gallery South Gallery, London in June 2013.'
Becky Shaw
Course leader, Creative Art Practice
As course leader for creative art practice, I lead an energetic and committed team. Recent focus has included devising a new display language for graduating third year students, and I lead a second year theory option called art and materiality. Two colleagues and I run Gravity - this research project and lecture series invites internationally respected artists to present their work to our students.
My research focuses on the relationship between people and the material world, and how ideas of objectivity and subjectivity dwell in objects. As a result my art practice involves making artworks that respond to places where people and objects interact - in large social environments including hospitals and factories.
Many of my works have involved collaborations with diverse people, including engineers, performers, hospital residents and scientists. I was awarded a PhD in 1998, following a three year study that explored making sculpture with palliative care patients. In 201 I won the Amstelveen Art Incentive prize for new art. My work has been included in books such as - ‘Situations’ by Claire Doherty- a key reference text for art in the public realm, in a Routledge reader on ‘Community Performance', and in a new book on collaboration called ‘Speculative Strategies’. From 2000-2006, I was co-director of Static, an experimental art and architecture gallery in Liverpool.
Profiles
Andrew Sneddon
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
Gary Simmonds
Senior lecturer, Creative Art Practice and Fine Art
Becky Shaw
Course leader, Creative Art Practice
