Studying Fine Art A Level enables you to develop exciting and innovative visual responses to the observed world. You will be taught to develop essential skills that will help you to challenge your perceptions. You will also investigate different cultures, art history, and other influences to inspire your work and to develop your understanding of how to generate meaning with art. This Fine Art A Level will enable you to develop varied ideas using unexpected approaches. In this course, drawing from observation forms the basis of the fine art development process, from visual research to outcomes. You will be encouraged to experiment with the possibilities of traditional and non-traditional media in 2D and 3D. You will learn many new and challenging approaches to drawing, printmaking, and painting from observed subjects and your sketchbooks will be filled with sustained and self-focused explorations as you explore the formal elements of line, tone, color, composition, shape, and texture. Contextual understanding is vital and is developed through the individual and class study of art history, museum trips, contemporary art shows, architecture, literature, and music. You will also investigate nature and the man-made world through self-devised visual research. The skills you will learn in the first year provide confidence for your second year ‘Personal Investigation’. This will enable you, with guidance, to pursue your individual creative and visual ideas. You will develop original ideas, and by analyzing and refining your work, you will work to produce ambitious, challenging, and thoughtful artwork. In addition to your practical portfolio work, you will also complete a written related study. Many of our students progress directly onto an Art Foundation course, which gives them the experience and specialist portfolio for degree course application. Some students will also apply straight from A-Level to study on a specialist degree course in a range of subjects including Fine Art, Architecture, History of Art, Interior Design, Graphic Design, illustration, makeup and prosthetics, Game Design, Jewellery Design, etc.
There is a minimum entry requirement of five GCSEs at Grade 4 and above. Grade 4 in Art GCSE. (If you don't have an arts-based GCSE, you will need to talk to the course leader at enrolment and submit a portfolio of artwork).
The coursework counts for 60% of your final grade. It consists of practical artwork made in lessons, study periods, and homework throughout the two-year course. Please note, that 20% of the coursework mark is based on a written essay, the ‘Related Study,’ which explores artists inspiring your artwork for a project titled the ‘Personal Investigation’. The ‘externally set assignment’ is an exam project that is set by the OCR exam board and is worth 40% of your final grade. You will have eight weeks of college time to create your project after choosing one of the titles from the exam paper. You will then make a final piece of artwork for the project in a 15-hour, three-day exam. The work is marked by all the teachers and is then internally moderated by the Creative Arts Division staff and externally moderated by the examination board.
About Education Provider
| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | Surrey |
| Ofsted Rating | Outstanding |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Weston Green Road, Thames Ditton, KT7 0JB |
Studying Fine Art A Level enables you to develop exciting and innovative visual responses to the observed world. You will be taught to develop essential skills that will help you to challenge your perceptions. You will also investigate different cultures, art history, and other influences to inspire your work and to develop your understanding of how to generate meaning with art. This Fine Art A Level will enable you to develop varied ideas using unexpected approaches. In this course, drawing from observation forms the basis of the fine art development process, from visual research to outcomes. You will be encouraged to experiment with the possibilities of traditional and non-traditional media in 2D and 3D. You will learn many new and challenging approaches to drawing, printmaking, and painting from observed subjects and your sketchbooks will be filled with sustained and self-focused explorations as you explore the formal elements of line, tone, color, composition, shape, and texture. Contextual understanding is vital and is developed through the individual and class study of art history, museum trips, contemporary art shows, architecture, literature, and music. You will also investigate nature and the man-made world through self-devised visual research. The skills you will learn in the first year provide confidence for your second year ‘Personal Investigation’. This will enable you, with guidance, to pursue your individual creative and visual ideas. You will develop original ideas, and by analyzing and refining your work, you will work to produce ambitious, challenging, and thoughtful artwork. In addition to your practical portfolio work, you will also complete a written related study. Many of our students progress directly onto an Art Foundation course, which gives them the experience and specialist portfolio for degree course application. Some students will also apply straight from A-Level to study on a specialist degree course in a range of subjects including Fine Art, Architecture, History of Art, Interior Design, Graphic Design, illustration, makeup and prosthetics, Game Design, Jewellery Design, etc.
There is a minimum entry requirement of five GCSEs at Grade 4 and above. Grade 4 in Art GCSE. (If you don't have an arts-based GCSE, you will need to talk to the course leader at enrolment and submit a portfolio of artwork).
The coursework counts for 60% of your final grade. It consists of practical artwork made in lessons, study periods, and homework throughout the two-year course. Please note, that 20% of the coursework mark is based on a written essay, the ‘Related Study,’ which explores artists inspiring your artwork for a project titled the ‘Personal Investigation’. The ‘externally set assignment’ is an exam project that is set by the OCR exam board and is worth 40% of your final grade. You will have eight weeks of college time to create your project after choosing one of the titles from the exam paper. You will then make a final piece of artwork for the project in a 15-hour, three-day exam. The work is marked by all the teachers and is then internally moderated by the Creative Arts Division staff and externally moderated by the examination board.