Expand+What is the programme about?
The BA (Honours) in Fine Art (Painting) is a four year programme. The distinct qualities which characterise the learning experience are active learning through the continual use of materials and processes in a studio en...

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The BA (Honours) in Fine Art (Painting) is a four year programme. The distinct qualities which characterise the learning experience are active learning through the continual use of materials and processes in a studio environment. The studio environment is active as a place of individual visual research, making and presenting works and through this practice also enables peer learning.

Learning about art in the contemporary world and the experience of the practice of learning in a shared group context is central to the programme. The Painting programme is housed in purpose-designed spacious studios, with workshop studio and audio-visual demonstration seminar space. The lecturers and technical officers who deliver the programme are all professional working artists and this perspective ensures that the Painting programme is focused on the provision of knowledge which is up-to-date and relevant to the contemporary world.

Expand+Year 2: Students are given a comprehensive introduction to project based learning in studio painting practice.

Progressing to Year 3, students are enabled to expand and diversify the range of technical and conceptual approaches through engagement...

Hide-Year 2: Students are given a comprehensive introduction to project based learning in studio painting practice.

Progressing to Year 3, students are enabled to expand and diversify the range of technical and conceptual approaches through engagement with photography, video and collaborative project formats.

Year 3: International study is facilitated in Year 3 through the Erasmus programme. Students spend up to one semester in a European Fine Art school and incoming European students are integrated into the life of the department and in so doing, greatly enhance dynamic peer learning.

Year 4: In Year 4, students are mentored individually and through group formats of dialogue, critique and workshops to achieve a successful outcome of research and practice, exhibited in the final BA degree exhibition.

Expand+What can I do after the programme?
Graduates from this programme have pursued successful career paths in a wide variety of art and related fields, which bears testimony to the value of the Painting programme. Graduates can also progress to postgrad...

Hide-What can I do after the programme?
Graduates from this programme have pursued successful career paths in a wide variety of art and related fields, which bears testimony to the value of the Painting programme. Graduates can also progress to postgraduate and Masters level study. Some recent graduates have continued to progress their study on prestigious courses both in Ireland and abroad.

Famous graduates of the Painting programme at LSAD include Conor Harrington, Amy O’Riordan, Amanda Coogan, Emmet Kierans, Ann Ryan, Diana Copperwhite and Nevan Lahart.