This degree is for those who want to engage further in the wide-ranging fields of art, including street art, photography, screen-based media, installation, painting, sculpture and illustration. People with a passion for visual culture and contemporary art, will meet and study in a community where individual vision and personality are expressed and understood, as a relevant and valuable contribution to our society. They will learn to apply their own knowledge and disposition across a range of art practices and contexts.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Contemporary Art will develop and gain a deep understanding of creativity in art. They will use this to respond to situations that demand new combinations of ideas, technologies and objects that result in valuable forms of knowledge and making. Such knowledge is powerful in the careers that will sustain and transform our world.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Contemporary Art will have developed an individuated professional art practice in the subjects of either Painting, Illustration, Screen based media, Photography or Sculpture, and will be able to;
Utilize a range of established and emerging artistic precedents, and related discourses,
Exercise skills, procedure and technique in the use of a range of conventional and new media and technology relevant to artistic practice,
Reflect critically on the nature of artistic practice and their own work,
Articulate reasoned and critical responses to local and global issues and challenges and apply them to artistic practice,
Extrapolate knowledge across a range of contemporary art practices,
Intentionally re-combine existing clusters of ideas, techniques, or objects that result in something not predicted and that is of potential or real value
Examine and respond to a broad range of creative possibilities in often constrained, complex and ambiguous contexts,
Analyse the social relations of relevant artistic domains and respond appropriately to professional requirements for practice,

Graduates from relevant level 4 programmes are eligible to apply for enrolment into this programme.
Graduates of the Bachelor of Contemporary Art are positioned to pathway into postgraduate programmes at Wintec such as the Bachelor of Media Arts with Honours.
Graduates who have elected to study the Art Education module will be positioned to undertake a Graduate Diploma of Teaching at other institutions.

University Entrance or equivalent
Successful completion of a relevant level 4 qualification
Candidates who do not meet these entry requirements may be considered for special admission (if aged 20 or over). Non English Speaking: IELTS 6.0 with all band 5.5 or higher, or equivalent. Refer to the programme regulations for detail.