Art and Design (Photography)

Course summary

There are four A levels available within Art and Photography. These are Fine Art, Textiles, Photography and Graphics. Are you creative and imaginative? Do you enjoy exploring ideas and looking at things in different ways? If so, you should consider a course in Art & Design or Photography or both. Each of these creative subjects are about looking, learning, thinking and communicating. You will enjoy developing your understanding of the visual world, learning practical skills and responding to artist ideas and issues in ways that are personal to you. All of these A levels are two year linear courses. You will start your Personal Investigation at the start of Year 12. The first year includes a number of workshops so you can identify areas of interest, build on skills previously learnt, experiment with different media, ideas and methods which will develop through in the final term into the second year of your personal study. In Art, students follow their chosen theme through a series of taught workshops, introducing five main subject groups: Drawing and Painting using a variety of materials, Photography and digital imagery, Printmaking, Printed and constructed textiles, Relief and 3D design.