Visual Arts

Course summary

It is very helpful if students following IB Visual Arts have some prior experience of art-making at a level equivalent to GCSE, but this is not essential for Standard Level. Our Visual Arts IB programme aims to engage you successfully with your own creative practice, developing ambition, confidence and success. You will have the opportunity to experience a broad range of ideas and processes before focusing on an area of creative interest and strength. Gallery trips, European study visits, meetings with artists, designers and photographers will help you extend your understanding of the changing contexts in which art is made. Your tutors are themselves practising artists. After following a fairly structured first term, you will then have the freedom to choose your area of work and build a portfolio on a range of scales and mediums including portrait, landscape, still life, sculpture, painting, drawing and mixed media, before selecting pieces from this for your final exhibition.