Art and Design

Course summary

Art and Design at A level will build on the experiences of students at GCSE. Projects will be broadly theme-based with students encouraged to build up research across a range of ideas and disciplines. Increasing independence, initiative and ambition will be features of working at this level, as will a developing engagement with issues around the practice and theories of contemporary art and design. Students will gain experience of the following in each year: • Developing a body of independent imaginative work and ideas in 2 and 3 dimensions Group and individual work to long and short briefs. • Life drawing and experimental approaches to drawing. • Art workshops, and gallery visits to commercial and public collections. • Discussion and practical-based work in a range of materials. • Bi-annual Year 12/13 foreign art trip (we have been to Eindhoven, Berlin, Paris, Rome and Venice in recent years). • Mounting and hanging their own interim exhibitions throughout the course. • Working with a range of teachers trained in different disciplines. • Managing their own permanent studio space in Year 13.