Explore your creativity through digital media, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. With a major in Visual Arts, you’ll discover the visual arts through the study of art history, visual language, concept development and design. In the Arts stream, you’ll prepare for a future as an artist or working in the visual arts industry. In the Education stream, you’ll focus on the skills you’ll need to teach art and creativity to your students—while uncovering your abilities and building new knowledge. Either way, you’ll learn from practising artists as you develop practical skills alongside theory. Unleash your imagination as you discover new ways to create, and think about, visual art.

Why study Visual Arts?

• Extend your talent and knowledge of art
• Develop an appreciation of creativity and visual thinking
• Learn to express conceptual aesthetic qualities that are both contemporary and traditional
• Build an understanding of social and cultural contexts of visual arts
• Develop a portfolio of creative work that demonstrates your technical and conceptual skills, creativity and passion

What you will study

• Art history and theory
• Design fundamentals
• Contemporary issues in visual arts
• Choose from digital media, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture—plus ceramics, jewellery and photography if you choose to study the Bachelor of Arts