Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)

The Visual Art specialisation offers an immersive, studio-based environment that fosters self-directed studio practice in your choice of drawing and printmaking, painting, photography or sculpture.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) is a specialist course that will help you develop practical skills and theoretical knowledge in the visual arts. Our studio and workshop facilities will provide you with the opportunity to explore both traditional and new media under the guidance of some of Australia’s most respected art educators and artists.

From the outset, you will be assigned your own studio area to investigate and experiment with a range of concepts, materials, techniques and processes, developing your unique artistic style.

Studying visual art at Melbourne will help you develop practical skills as well as the language to engage critically with your own and others’ visual art practice. This will prepare you for diverse industry career options from art curatorship to preservation.

Breadth subjects at each year level enable you to explore cross disciplinary studies from the wider University community, accessing multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills that will build on existing knowledge or present opportunities for you to investigate and develop new interests.

You will

• Obtain knowledge and skills to maintain an independent artistic practice
• Develop confidence to undertake experimental technical/artistic approaches in developing set projects
• Develop understanding of topics in contemporary art criticism and aesthetic theory
• Your studies will culminate in a resolved body of artwork for inclusion in the Graduate Exhibition.

Future pathways

Upon completion of the course, you may choose to apply for a fourth-year Honours degree. An honours year provides an intensive mode of study allowing you to master your specialisation and create a pathway into advanced graduate study options in acting.

• Completed secondary education recently (within the past two years)
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants will be required to prepare a folio of works according to their chosen specialisation and attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the interview and folio.

  ATAR-based admission information in Semester 1, 2024

  ATAR-based admission for the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable).	ATAR
  Lowest ATAR where a recent Year 12 student offer was made (excluding students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest ATAR to which an offer was made (including students made offers through special entry schemes)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Minimum ATAR required for consideration (only applicants eligible for special entry schemes were admitted below the minimum)	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Guaranteed ATAR for applicants who completed Year 12 and were eligible for the Access Melbourne categories of rural or isolated and/or disadvantaged financial background*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Indigenous applicants who completed Year 12	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and attended an under-represented school*	N/A for this course
  Guaranteed ATAR for Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars who completed Year 12 and did not attend an under-represented school*	N/A for this course

  _{*All students who achieve the specified guaranteed ATAR and meet the course prerequisites will be offered a place}

  ATAR profile of those offered places in the Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in Semester 1, 2024 (includes data also for any Bachelor of Fine Arts (all specialisations) Graduate Degree Package offers, if applicable). Does not include consideration of student background and equity.

  ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds	ATAR
  Highest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Median rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)
  Lowest rank to receive an offer	RC (Range of Criteria used for selection)

• Completed some or all of a higher education qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants will be required to prepare a folio of works according to their chosen specialisation and attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the interview and folio.

• Completed some or all of a VET qualification
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants will be required to prepare a folio of works according to their chosen specialisation and attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the interview and folio.

• Applicants with work and/or life experience
• • Once the course application is submitted applicants must pay an additional administration fee and submit a supplementary application form.
  • All applicants will be required to prepare a folio of works according to their chosen specialisation and attend an interview.
  • Applicants who satisfy the above requirements will be assessed to ensure they meet the minimum (academic) entry requirements of the University – completion of the VCE or a qualification deemed by the University to be equivalent and meeting the University’s English language requirement.
  • Once these academic requirements have been satisfied applicants are ranked according to the interview and folio.