Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

Welcome to the Visual Arts Department at BHASVIC. Fine Art is one of four subjects we offer at A-level. The first year of Fine Art is all about discovery. We want to get to know you as quickly as possible. Initial projects are designed to encourage dialogue, a sense of play and promote curiosity. Drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media and three-dimensional pathways will be explored. Having spent a year discovering yourselves as practising artists, much of our transition work at the end of the first-year centres around you defining your artistic selves. In the second year you are encouraged to develop your own visual language, style and ultimately become an expert in the area you have chosen to study. A longer personal body of work gives time for this refinement and focus. You will be taught in large, light and well-equipped studios by teachers who value you as an Artist. They will work closely with you to form supportive relationships that help guide your artistic endeavours. Many of these teachers are practising Artists' themselves. We have a fantastic team of six technicians who are also there to assist your technical needs. Enrichment opportunities include trips, life drawing, applying to become one of our assistant curators or events assistants and a program of Artist talks.