Art, Craft and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

The course continues to build on skills and techniques gained at GCSE, pushing students to refine their own practice, as well as considering context and the wider art community. Students are given much more control over their study and encouraged to pursue their individual strengths and interests. We aim not only to gain success at A-Level, but to create confident, independent learners with a passion for art. Year 12 students explore a range of shorter projects, and workshops where they are able to gain skills in a variety of media and experience a range of genres. Students will explore different techniques and ways of looking at artists' work to inspire their own creative investigations and responses. Students will then be guided through the process of evaluating strengths, areas for improvement and identifying where their areas of interest lie, in order to generate the best possible starting point for their sustained study in Year 13.