Art and Design

Course summary

This course focuses on Fine Art skills, but is directly relevant to careers in architecture, illustration, product design, graphic design and fashion. Creativity encourages and promotes independent thinking and can complement more academic studies. Visits to London galleries are offered on this course along with opportunities to experience cultural destinations abroad. Enthusiasm, good drawing ability and the resourcefulness to work independently are important qualities for students to be successful. On this course, you will study: – A range of projects that follow a series of thematically based topics, to include Journey, City and Portrait. – Workshop sessions will introduce you to a range of materials and techniques, allowing you the freedom to experiment with your own imagery and ideas. – In Year 2, you will undertake a personal investigation in a specialist area of your own choice where you explore an aspect of Art and Design that interests you, this will involve producing sketchbooks and outcomes. The Personal Investigation will be supported with an essay (maximum 3000 words). Explorative sketchbook work will prepare you for the externally set task with a topic set by the exam board. This component is followed from February of your second year culminating in a 15-hour timed period to produce your outcome.