Applications for 2018/19 entry to this course have now closed.
BA Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts offers you the opportunity and resources to develop your own practice as an artist.
Our studios are a site of production and community. They are spaces where discussion and exchange shape the work students make.
Support will come from experienced and dedicated lecturers, who are active practicing artists. We will encourage you to be inventive, ambitious and professional.
First year BA Painting student Maura Polano is the 2018 recipient of the highly prestigious Worshipful Company of Painters-Stainers’ Bursary. As the fifth oldest of the 110 Livery Companies in […]
STOCK UP ON AIR is a group show featuring work from eight second year BA Painting students, taking place at Bow Arts’ Nunnery Gallery from 14 – 16 September. The […]
Annie-Marie Akussah is a graduating BA Painting student from Accra, Ghana in West Africa, she moved to East London when she was 14. This year Annie-Marie was shortlisted for the […]
Ming Ying is a Chinese final year BA Painting student who was shortlisted for the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize this year. Previously she won the Khojaly Peace Prize for Art and […]
Joanna Sluman is from South Croydon, and living in Balham while at Wimbledon. Although her work is mainly sculptural she is a final year student on BA Painting. In the […]
London based artist, Janine Hall graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts this summer after studying BA Fine Art: Painting before continuing on to MA Drawing part-time. Janine draws shadows and […]
In purpose built studios with natural light and a range of project spaces, seminar rooms and lecture theatre.
Our students have the opportunity to get involved in external exhibitions with organisations that work closely with us throughout the course, as well as exhibiting at offsite venues. Work placement / experience is part of the second year.
Students can also apply to study abroad in their second and third years as part of the college’s Erasmus scheme.
Applications for 2018/19 entry for this course are now closed.
You must apply through UCAS, where you’ll need the following information:
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) application deadline is 15 January.
Following your UCAS application to this course all home / EU applicants will be invited to choose a date for a selection event.
A selection event is similar to an interview. You will be expected to bring your portfolio, which will be reviewed by course teams. The event will also give you a chance to meet current students, take a tour of the college and see the facilities.
More details about your selection event will be emailed to you once you have chosen your selection event date.
Applicants will be seen by Fine Art tutors from Painting, Print and Time-Based Media and Sculpture. Applicants may be offered a place on an alternative BA Fine Art course at Wimbledon. This decision will be based on our assessment of an applicants' creative potential and interests.
Applications for 2018/19 entry for this course are now closed.
There are 3 ways international students can apply to an undergraduate course at Wimbledon College of Arts:
Find out more information about applying through UCAS.
Interviews and portfolio reviews - international students can be interviewed in a number of different ways:
Through the Study Abroad programme international students can apply to join an undergraduate course.
For information on how to apply visit the Study Abroad section.
We select students based on the quality of their applications, looking primarily at their portfolio of work, personal statements and reference.
The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
We will also consider other evidence of prior learning and experience via Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning - AP(E)L and / or alternative qualifications assessed as offering the same level as the above requirements.
All classes are taught in English. If English isn't your first language you must provide evidence at enrolment of the following:
Portfolios should show the following:
We look for:
£9,250 (2018/19 fees).
Tuition fees may increase in future years for new and continuing students, in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Please visit our undergraduate tuition fees page for more information.
£19,350 (2018/19 fees).
In addition to tuition fees you are very likely to incur additional costs such as travel expenses and the cost of materials. Please read the information on our additional costs page.
Find out about the accommodation options available and how much they will cost.
Use our search tool to find out more about the scholarships and awards available to students.
This course prepares you for progression into a range of careers such as a practicing artist, arts manager, art writer, curator, gallery educator, teacher, arts educator and technician.
Recent painting graduates have successfully progressed to postgraduate study, as well as exhibiting in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition and The Saatchi Channel 4 New Sensations exhibition that included 5 Wimbledon painting alumni, out of a total of its' 20 exhibitors.
Past and present students have also used the course placement to establish studio employment links with a variety of artists.
Find out how careers and employability helps our students and graduates start their careers.
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