Art and Design

Course summary

This is a broad-based course exploring practical, critical and contextual work through a range of 2D and/or 3D processes and media, such as painting, print making, photography and ceramics. The course is delivered by artists teachers who make and exhibit their own art. Art, craft and design gives you the skills and knowledge to create personal and imaginative work supporting you to establish an artistic practice as artists do. You will be encouraged to expand your knowledge of contemporary artists, makers and designers and explore those of the past by visiting galleries and museums. Our purpose-built studios will support you to develop your artwork in lessons and non-contact time. The course is built around the personal projects and responses of students. Studio practice workshops will include; Drawing techniques Painting- oil, acrylic, gouache and watercolour Translating ideas from 2D into 3D - ceramics, plastic and wire Printmaking - dry point print, lino, monoprint and collagraph Photography - cyanotypes and digital Annotating art WHERE CAN ART & DESIGN LEAD? Art, craft and design is manifest everywhere, not only in galleries and museums, but also in the design and manufacture of our clothes, soft furnishings and intelligent fabrics. It is in our domestic and industrial products, as well as games, animated films and TV documentaries. Art, craft and design is essential in the development of interiors, exteriors and all the accompanying furniture, fittings and planning that goes into home decor. Look around you and you'll see that design is everywhere. And, alongside both the material and virtual world of art, craft and design comes a unique portfolio of skills and attributes; practical, skills based and expressive, and problem solving, critical and analytical. These are transferable creative thinking skills, fit for purpose for the future of our children and young people within the fast-changing world of the twenty-first century.