Applied Art

About this programme

Unleash your creativity with our Applied Art degree where you will focus on the high-quality craft skills needed to launch your professional artistic career. We will help you develop your material and design expertise and versatility through ceramics, metal, jewellery and mixed media. By studying an Applied Art degree at Wrexham University, you'll gain access to unique benefits designed to help you succeed. You will have access to your own dedicated workspace within specialist, material-specific workshops throughout all three years of study. Course content combines heritage craft skills with contemporary technologies, preparing students for a flexible, future-focused creative career. You will engage real audiences through live projects and events, showcasing your work from first year through to the final degree show. Year one introduces you to the breadth of materials and techniques within the Applied Arts, where you have the opportunity to work across all the material areas, experimenting with ceramics, metal and mixed media. Year two expands your making skills within your main material choice, developing a depth of knowledge and understanding about materials and craft skills and allowing you to advance your own creative style. The key professional skills of understanding market, publicity and costings are also developed through practical projects. Year three allows you to realise your ideas in the direction of your choice, with students developing their own individual themes to produce collections, demonstrating high-quality making skills and innovative design solu