Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

The course encourages students to develop their personal interests and passion for Art and Design, whilst recognizing the subject’s value to the creative industries. The course provides opportunities to develop personal responses to ideas, observations, experiences, environments, and cultures in practical, critical and contextual forms; this allows students to develop their strengths and interests further, within the specification. Students will have the opportunity to explore their ideas through the mediums of painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, assemblage, sculpture, printmaking, photography, digital media, textiles and fashion. Many students develop a lifelong interest in the subject and continue further studies via direct University entrance or a Foundation course. Students will begin their studies in Year 12 following the two-year A Level Art and Design (Fine Art) course. Options to work within a Graphic Communication context are possible.