Do you want to turn your creativity and artistic skill into a rewarding and successful career? Our unique Creative Industries offering provides a perfect option for you. Whether your specialism is within fine art, animation, games art, graphic design, photography, or textiles, you can build a professional portfolio and develop your own creative style.

However, artistic skills and a passion for the creative arts by themselves are no longer enough to be successful in these fields. To support your professional practice and carve a career path, you will also need to develop business and entrepreneurship knowledge, and an understanding of the distinct cultural, funding and commercial contexts of the creative industries.

By combining hands-on studio practice in your discipline with cultural, academic, and industrial management skills, that’s just what Blackburn College’s unique blended model offers.

Of course you’ll learn to explore creativity in many forms – from visual arts to textiles to digital media – but you will also experience first-hand how to plan projects, manage budgets, and promote your work. This ensures that you not only refine your artistic skills but also gain the strategic and tactical abilities to thrive in the creative sector.

And it’s a sector of increasing importance for the UK – identified by the Government as one of eight “growth driving” sectors prioritised in its industrial strategy. The creative industries have been one of the fastest-growing parts of the UK economy, contributing over £123bn in 2024, and employing 2.4m people.

So explore a new type of creative course, for a new style of creative career, and discover how we'll help you to build a sustainable and flexible career in the creative sector.