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Course Information
Schedules
- Sep 2026
Registration period
19 Nov 2025 (Wed) - 31 Mar 2026 (Tue)
Price
HKD 97,170
(Fees
Application Fee : HK$200 (No application fee before the deadline!)
Registration Fee : HK$3,500
Tuition Fee : HK$97,170 by 2 instalments
Scholarships
A variety of attractive scholarships are available to prospective, current and graduating SHAPE students.)
(Fees
Application Fee : HK$200 (No application fee before the deadline!)
Registration Fee : HK$3,500
Tuition Fee : HK$97,170 by 2 instalments
Scholarships
A variety of attractive scholarships are available to prospective, current and graduating SHAPE students.)
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
12 Month(s)
Language
English
Location
HKDI & IVE(Lee Wai Lee)
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Course Overview
IIntroduction
Fine Art is a dynamic subject that it can be showcased through collectives, galleries and public spaces. Contemporary art generates powerful new ideas and platforms for debate. Working as an artist is social, practical, and theoretical, and can involve you in an exciting range of cultural and educational activities everywhere.
Programme Features
Broad development areas
Fine Art develops your practice in a wide array of areas such as painting, sculpture, installation, performance, video and digital media. Graduates can become artists, designers, curators, arts administrators and educators.
Practical research project
Through the project, you can craft your skills as a researcher, working with academics helping to shape new thinking in the field. Our academic staff include fine artists, curators and writers with national and international profiles. You will be able to build a strong sense of your own practice and develop as a confident practitioner, defining your own vision and journey. You'll learn to present and promote yourself, apply for jobs and funding, and set yourself up as a creative business. You will also build a body of material that will help you transition into further studies, employment and future art practice.
Entry Requirements^
Holders of the following VTC Higher Diploma programmes:
HD in Illustration;
HD in Visual Arts and Culture;
HD in Jewellery Design and Technology and
Review of the applicant’s portfolios.
OR
Holders of Higher Diploma or Associate Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject areas (such as Jewellery Design and Technology) awarded by recognised institutions will also be considered.
Review of the applicant’s portfolios and a written task.
^ Under review and subject to change
English Proficiency Requirements
Applicants successfully completed a Higher Diploma or an Associate Degree taught and assessed in English from a recognised institution in Hong Kong or equivalent.
OR
At least an overall IELTS score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component, or an overall IELTS score of 6.0 with 6.0 in each component, or equivalent.
What You’ll Learn
Modules
Preparation for Extended Study in Fine Art
This module is designed to give you the opportunity to define a short programme of study on a self-initiated basis in preparation for the major “Extended Study in Fine Art” module. You will learn through experience how to identify and articulate personal aims and how to plan and manage a period of self-directed work. It also requires you to focus on the relationship of your art/design/media interests to individual career aspirations.
Visual Culture 3
The module Visual Culture 3 is a module of contextual studies where students design and produce a research project reinforcing a specialised interest in contemporary critical debates and contexts supporting contemporary creative production. In lectures and studios, students are supported to develop ideas, design and implement research projects, and are provided with guidance on their independent study. In tutorials, students carry out on-going research, critical reading and writing. Students are expected to actively participate in peer-to-peer discussions, student-led research tasks, and group discussions to respond to the materials presented to them or developed from their individual study. Participation in these learning experiences is core to the ethos of, and is an assessment strategy for the module. The outcomes of the module are that students will demonstrate their research skills, especially the ability to design and develop their own projects through critical research, locate their practice in relevant theoretical debates, develop argument and analysis, and present in appropriate academic formats.
Extended Study in Fine Art
During the module, you will compile a Research File that contains contextual and cultural reference material that is informing your work, and which may include a written commentary explaining the relevance of this to your own practice. A professionally produced individual publication presented with the final body of work demonstrates an understanding of individual creative practice in relation to contemporary critical, cultural and professional contexts. This publication also requires you to critically reflect on research sources, application of methodology and the success of the outcome in relation to your original intentions.
Professional Practice: Graduate Strategies
This module enables you to consolidate your knowledge and understanding of your area of practice in relation to the professional context, and develop strategies for graduation and progression to employment or further studies. The module is designed to contribute to the refinement of your contextual understanding of your discipline, and enable you to focus this towards identified personal career aspirations and the opportunities offered, directly and indirectly, by the industry.
