Highlights
Shape your creative identity in an open studio environment, exploring diverse arts and digital media.
Build your creative career as a professional artist, curator, gallerist, arts manager or entrepreneur.
Your studies will begin with you working with a variety of media and developing your own interests, ideas and art practice, and skills in visual analysis. You also study art history and theory units to support your studio practice and are introduced to modern, post-modern, and contemporary art. As you progress you will learn to contextualise your art practice through presentations, discussions and supported practical experience in display and exhibition. Later in your degree there are industry-based projects and international tours on offer to allow you to explore the creative avenues that will let you develop as an artist.
Why choose this course?
A QUT visual arts degree offers you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the dynamic and transformative culture of contemporary art. During this course you will:
Real-world learning
Be part of an active creative community and gain the skills and knowledge to work in the visual arts anywhere in the world.
Enjoy a range of practical options including public art commissions, curatorial projects, independent publishing, artist-run initiatives and collaborative art production.
Build your career portfolio with tailored professional experiences including industry-based projects and internships at leading arts organisations, galleries and museums.
Broaden your global perspectives of art through international study tours and student exchanges.
Careers and outcomes
Many of our graduates become highly successful practising artists, represented by commercial galleries, and with strong careers in the commissioned and public funding sectors.
We provide grounding in art history and theory that equips you to communicate with clients, curators and employers. Graduates also pursue professional careers as curators, program officers or arts managers and are often employed by prestigious galleries and museums both in Australia and internationally.
QUT visual arts graduates are at the heart of innovative artist-run galleries across Brisbane. We foster a strong sense of community and entrepreneurialism. Our students have developed exciting experimental art spaces such as Box copy Contemporary Art Space and LEVEL ARI, and have also been the recipients of the prestigious Samstag Scholarships, Australia, Council and Arts Queensland awards, art prizes such as the Queensland Premier's New Media Award and the Qantas Spirit of Youth Award, as well as the German DAAD scholarship and numerous international studio residencies.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please
February 2025
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Gardens Point Campus & Kelvin Grove campus,
BRISBANE CITY,
Queensland,
4000, BRISBANE, Australia
Students must have a pass in Australian Year 12 or equivalent.
Entry requirements may vary from country to country.
IELTS Academic score of 6.5 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 6; TOEFL iBT score of 79 with Listening, reading score of 16, Writing score of 21 and Speaking score of 18; Pearson PTE (Academic) score of 58 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 50; Cambridge English Advanced (CAE) score of 176 with Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking score of 169.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
QUT is a young, research-intensive university, ranking in the top 200 universities globally (THE World University Rankings 2024).