Art and Design

Course summary

You will complete an A level over two years, and will experience workshops and explore and develop skills in drawing, painting printing, ceramics, sculpture, photography and textiles to create a visual understanding and communicate your thoughts and ideas. The Art department staff are specialists in these areas and are thoroughly passionate about the subject. Learn to conduct research, contribute to discussions and experiment with a range of materials, before selecting your preferred medias, refining you practices and developing new and interesting personal ways of working. The course allows for independent study that plays to your strengths and preferred way of working. Our art and photography students work together and support each other; they hold regular A level is for you if you are creative, work hard, keep to deadlines and are committed to the subject. Students regularly go on trips and gallery visits to the Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Kew Gardens and others, with opportunities for residential trips to galleries abroad e.g. Paris or Berlin. During exhibitions, students may sell their work, making an interesting and successful introduction to the art world.