Art and Design (Fine Art)

Entry Requirements

Most of our students will have studied GCSE art and design, but we can make exceptions. A successful artist will need to be adaptable, passionate, skilful, analytical, independent, imaginative, organised and resourceful. The manner in which we teach therefore, aims at the continued development of all of these skills. There is no prescriptive ‘house style’ at Woodbridge, quite the contrary – it’s imperative that students seek to develop their own artistic personality; it’s anticipated and commonplace that our Year 11, 12 and 13 exhibitions feature a mixture of hand-crafted outcomes such as sculpture, installation, fashion, painting, textiles and drawing alongside digital art such as photography, film and animation. As a department we are an attractive, complementary blend of the traditional and the contemporary, students are expected to critique each other’s work, at times assess their own work and respond practically to teacher/student discussions. Our A-level course constantly pushes the boundaries of what young artists, designers and photographers can produce. We tailor-fit schemes of work to suit individuals and have separate fine art and photography pathways so that students can study both lens based, and non-lens based A levels. Given our approach and flexibility, we are able to offer students the opportunity to study up to three art-based A levels, mostly due to the adaptability of our timetable at Woodbridge School. Each Sixth Form student artist is provided with their own studio space.