Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

The two-year linear course with Eduqas (WJEC) allows us greater flexibility to deliver a course that is more engaging, creative and structured to allow all students to pg. 20 improve both their artistic skills and their conceptual understanding of artwork. Year 1 You will attend a series of workshops that cover the bases of visual language. You will be instructed how to use artistic materials from a traditional standpoint before being given the freedom to explore these experimentally and creatively. You will learn how to use a wide range of artistic media, both 3D and 2D, with improved competence and how to deconstruct works of art in order to understand how other artists approach different topics and themes. By the summer you will have started your main A level project, where you will use and display the skills you have acquired to a thorough, personal and well-developed project. Year 2 You continue to develop your main portfolio of work to create a final piece. This is worth 60% of the A level. In February you will start a second project, which makes up the final 40% of the A level. At the end of year 13, we celebrate your successes with an external exhibition in a local gallery space, which is co-curated with the students and gallery owners.