Highlights
- Study at a university ranked #1 in Queensland for Art and Design (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).
- Shape your creative identity in an open studio environment, exploring the diverse range of contemporary artforms.
- Build your creative career as a professional artist, curator, gallerist, arts manager or entrepreneur.
- Gain an appreciation of cross-cultural and Indigenous Australian perspectives on art.
- Gain real world experience with opportunities for exposure by presenting collaborative projects in public spaces, galleries and arts festivals.
- With the flexibility to customise your Creative Arts degree to fit your interests, you can choose a second major, minors and/or extensions and electives.
- Unique course structure allows you to combine creative disciplines together to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.
Visual art responds to the culture, environment, and technologies of now, and reflects the complex and diverse issues that shape the world we live in. Working in a contemporary art studio, your interests and skills will be diversified and refined. Whether you are planning to become a professional artist, teacher or art professional such as an exhibition curator or arts manager, you will benefit from substantial studio experience while receiving training in your specialist area.
A QUT Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) degree offers you the opportunity to investigate challenges and explore the creative possibilities of today's ever-changing, globalised, digital world - and learn to shape its future.
You will be part of a vibrant creative arts community at QUT and work intensively with leading artists and thinkers in state-of-the-art facilities at the Creative Industries Precinct.
Tailor your visual arts degree for your future with a second major or a combination of other creative field majors, minors and specialisation units across multiple subjects.
This degree has a unique course structure which allows you to combine creative disciplines together to develop transferable skills across a range of industries.
