皇家墨尔本理工大学

Learn fine art by making it

At RMIT you’ll spend most of your time immersed in studios. This means more face-to-face time with teachers and more time to work on your art.

Your career in the creative industries

Work in diverse and creative roles such as professional artist, arts manager, technician, gallery director and curator.

Graduate showcase

Discover the work of emerging artists, craftspeople, visual thinkers and cultural managers that will reconstruct the creative economies of a future culture.

There’s no better way to learn about art than by making it.

At RMIT you’ll be immersed in fine art studios, where you’ll gain the confidence and the tools to understand and interpret the world around you through art. Studios are taught by high-profile practising artists who exhibit locally and internationally, so you can connect with what’s happening in the art world.

RMIT’s teaching style is centered around you as an individual. You’ll receive personal mentoring that challenges and pushes you to discover and form your own art practice or specialisation.

Studios are complemented by studies in art history, theories and cultures, and in the professional skills you’ll need to succeed in the arts and creative industries.

This degree is also delivered in Hong Kong by the Hong Kong Art School.

Studio specialisations

Artists no longer work in single mediums. RMIT has a structure that allows breadth through multidisciplinary studio access, but also allowing you to focus on a particular craft.

Studio specialisations include:

ceramics
gold and silversmithing
sculpture
video

drawing
painting
print (including screen printing and digital imaging)

Electives and program structure

Fine art studio subjects are the backbone of the learning experience, enabling you to develop an individual fine art practice. You’ll navigate these studios over six semesters to establish a sustained practice.

Multiple studio options are offered each semester. These studio options are thematic and/or focused on a specific studio specialisation, allowing a variety of ways for you to discover and develop your own individual art practice. You will ballot for your first three studio preferences based on your personal interests.

Career

Art is the tool for innovation that can create real-life impact, and is essential to the new creative economy.

Creativity and innovation are now the core tools in a global economy dependent on growth. The booming art and design industry in Victoria alone confirms this – creative industries contribute around seven billion dollars annually to the state’s economy.

Progressive, imaginative thinking is in demand across major professional fields, like education, health, and entertainment, and artists are playing important roles in shaping creative endeavour in these areas. RMIT’s Fine Art graduates continue to make significant contributions to contemporary art and culture, nationally and internationally as artists, craftspeople, visual thinkers and cultural managers.

Many graduates enter careers as:

professional artists
arts managers, gallery directors or curators
creative entrepreneurs
art community and cultural development workers
art technicians.