About BA (Honours) in Visual Arts Practice (ACCS Mode)

Application:  IADT

What is Visual Arts Practice (ACCS Mode)?

This programme is offered on a flexible basis through the ACCS (Accumulation of Credits and Certification of Subjects) system. It is suitable for non-traditional learners, mature students and part-time study options. 

Delivery structure:

Flexible Access: 60 credits per year. Teaching is timetabled over three evenings per week (6:30pm - 9:30pm). It is also required to attend three times, once per term, during the academic year from Monday to Friday (9am - 5pm).

In addition, specialist workshops and seminars may be timetabled on Friday evenings (6:30pm - 9:30pm), and on Saturdays (9am - 5pm).

Part-Time Delivery:  

Less than 60 credits taken in any one year. Places are subject to demand. The weekly timetable follows the same pattern as Flexible Access above. 

Aims and Objectives

What will I be able to do when I graduate?

Careers may arise in the creative industries as artists, curators, arts administrators, arts mediators, art gallery directors, art teachers, community arts coordinators, art directors, art critics and historians, film makers, photojournalists, image researchers, content developers.

Postgraduate opportunities include the MA in Visual Arts Practices at IADT.

 

What modules will I study?

Introduction to Visual Arts Culture; Introduction to self-direction; Support studies, workshops and seminars; History of Visual Culture; Modernism, Modernity and Image; Postmodernism & the Avant-Garde; Interdisciplinary, Research Based and Self-Directed Studio Practices; Exhibition Production

 

 

What are the Entry Requirements?

• Be 21 years of age or over, and wish to further your education at a third-level institution
  
• Applicants between 21 and 23 years old must fulfill standard Leaving Certificate requirements
  
• Applicants are selected on the basis of a portfolio of their work and interview/information session

 

What should my Portfolio include?

• A variety of images constructed in a variety of media (e.g., images such as paintings, drawings, photographs, collages, film/video, photographs or slides of 3D work)
• Work using media such as water colours, oils, acrylics, crayons, pastels, pencils, charcoal, coloured papers, photographs, video tape, construction in plaster, wood, metal, wax, found objects/materials, etc
• All these media and forms need not be present but some variety in media and format is essential. The key requirement is to demonstrate inventiveness, experimentation, flexibility, stylistic variation, visual and conceptual interest
• Project work dealing with concepts and ideas. Project work demonstrates the development of an idea through a series of distinct stages from initial idea/theme, through experiment and research, to final outcome and conclusion. It may be presented in the form of project notebooks, sketches/test pieces and final outcomes, and it can be in any medium
• You may submit work from relevant fields other than art practice, such as literature/theatre/film/architecture/IT/design, etc, as part of your portfolio – this is particularly welcomed from non-traditional learners and mature students
  

 

Are there any costs for materials and/or field trips?

Approx. € 500 to € 1,000 per year

Graduate Exhibition cost in year 4

What are the fees?

In 2009/10, approx. € 3,800 for EU nationals and € 10,500 for non-EU national 

 

What is the closing date?

Applications must be made to the Admissions Office in IADT.

1 st round of applications: 7th May 2010 .

2 nd round of applications (if places available): 20th August 2010.

Download application form here or contact our Admissions Office on  admissions@iadt.ie   / (01) 239 4621

 

 

Visit www.iadtprojects.com to see the project work of our 2009 graduates