Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

Fine Art is an exciting course which offers extensive opportunities for students to think creatively and explore their ideas through specialist materials and processes of making. The course requires students to test and reflect on their thinking whilst expressing themselves visually through new methods of making, as well as more traditional approaches. Students have the opportunity to use a broad and exciting range of specialist equipment and processes, which include large printing presses for etching and collagraph, a screen-printing transfer bed, ceramic and cold glass fusing facilities, large format digital cameras and an Adana letterpress printer. Other facilities include a large darkroom and purpose-built ceramics room. The A Level syllabus is designed to encompass principal areas for critical, practical and theoretical coverage of art, craft and design. These focus on the qualities of academic observation, analytical understanding, practical experimentation, research and individual expression. These are incorporated within assessment objectives which include: recording experiences and observations, exploring and analysing sources, documenting independent judgments, using knowledge and\ understanding of the work of others to extend thinking inform work and explore ideas using a broad range of media and techniques.