Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

The Fine Art A level encourages students to think and work like artists and to gain a deeper understanding of creative processes. They will develop vital transferable skills which would benefit any vocational setting and for those who wish to study subjects within the creative sector. All students are offered an exciting broad-based curriculum, with constant opportunities to work in an exploratory and experimental fashion, encouraging them to take ownership of the direction of their work. Drawing in all its forms underpins the course. Students understand how to generate interesting ideas to produce engaging personal lines of inquiry leading to diverse and skillful outcomes. Students develop the ability to effectively research to make connections with and critically analyse a range of practitioners and related topics as an integral part of their practice. They are given a range of opportunities to further develop their practice including gallery trips and a foreign study visit.