Art and Design (Textiles)

Course summary

Welcome to the Visual Arts Department at BHASVIC. Textiles is one of four subjects we offer at A-level. The first year of Textiles is all about discovery. We want to get to know you as quickly as possible. Initial projects are designed to encourage dialogue, a sense of play and promote curiosity. Sewing machine skills, drawing, printmaking, batik, fabric manipulation, felt making and Photoshop will be explored with both Fashion and Fine Art based outcomes. Having spent a year discovering yourselves as practising designers, much of our transition work at the end of the first-year centres around you defining your artistic selves. In the second year you are encouraged to develop your own visual language, style and ultimately become an expert in the area you have chosen to study. A longer personal body of work gives time for this refinement and focus. You will be taught in a large, light and well-equipped studio by teachers who value you as a designer. They will work closely with you to form supportive relationships that help guide your artistic endeavours. Many of these teachers are practising Artists' themselves. We have a fantastic team of six technicians who are also there to assist your technical needs. Enrichment opportunities include trips, life drawing, applying to become one of our assistant curators or events assistants and a program of Artist talks.