The Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) programme, a joint programme of Hong Kong Art School and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT), enters its 10th year. A decade ago, local programme for training professional artists were few and far between, the population of visual arts practitioners was growing at a crawling speed. It not only meant a scarcity of newcomers, but also a paucity of knowledgeable arts promoters and appreciators. One of our key beliefs at that time was to broaden the base for visual arts first and to take care of its longterm ecological development later. After five years of horizontal development we found the time ripe for more specialized training. Besides painting and ceramics as major subjects, we planned to introduce more courses such as photography and sculpture. A comprehensive syllabus incorporating specialized subjects finally comes into being in 2008.

A decade is not a short period of time, yet the past ten years only marked the first step in our road of education, because we know, edification and nurture cannot be achieved overnight.


Tam Wai-Ping
Programme Coordinator (Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art))