Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design

ACU’s Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design tailors a blend of studio-based fine art, graphic design, and art history. Combining form and function, this dynamic course allows you to embrace and expand your creative passions while learning industry-based insights and real-world skills. You don’t need an extensive portfolio to apply, and you won’t go through a gruelling audition process. With dedicated studios and workshops, learn how to harness your individual style and develop your skills as a graphic designer and contemporary artist through real-world studio practice and industry placements in the creative industries. You’ll have the opportunity to study art history overseas, at the Venice Biennale, in Paris or at our Rome campus, developing local and international networks and expanding your global outlook. Benefit from hands-on, project-based learning and exhibit your skills to the public in the ACU gallery space throughout your studies, culminating in a final year graduate exhibition which will showcase your work and curating skills at a professional standard. Enhance your creativity and develop skills and capabilities working across a broad range of mediums, including drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Push creative boundaries and be supported by dedicated educators who are art historians, designers, and curators, and who exhibit their work nationally and internationally. In your final year you’ll complete a major project in your chosen area and take part in the graduate exhibition showcasing your artwork, catalogue design, events management, and curating skills. Graduates of this course can pursue further study with a Master of Teaching degree. Professional experience You will be required to complete a Professional Practice unit and a 105-hour Industry Internship. The Professional Practice unit gives you the opportunity to explore some of the diverse career outcomes available to you as a visual arts and design graduate. It emphasises the importance of being an enterprising, socially responsible professional among your networks and communities of practice within the creative industries. The Industry Internship requires you to volunteer in any area