Art and Design

Course summary

The Edexcel A-level Art and Design specification encourages personal, creative and imaginative approaches. Its four-unit structure maximises choice and flexibility, allowing students to follow a broad, open course or to specialise in one or more endorsements. Students work with both traditional and new media, and they can choose from fine art, three-dimensional design, textile design, photography - lens and light-based media, graphic communication and critical and contextual studies. The course is designed to ensure that students not only develop practical artistic skills and abilities but also study art and design and its various contexts. In addition to making artefacts, students will be encouraged to reflect on their work and the work of others and will develop their aesthetic understanding and critical judgement. Students will also develop their intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers, as well as investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills.