Art and Design (Fine Art) A Level

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Fine Art is an excellent choice for you if you have a vivid interest in observed drawing, painting and printmaking. Considerable opportunities exist for media exploration and creative design work, working with a variety of materials, techniques and processes.

The course demands a strong work ethic and independent commitment. If you achieved well and enjoyed Art & Design at school this could be the course for you.

Fine Art is often studied alongside related courses such as Graphic Design and Photography but can also serve as a complementary study route, offering an element of variety to an intense academic programme.

The course is rooted in direct creative activity supported by individual tutorial discussion and reference to exemplar material created by teaching staff, students and established historically significant Fine Art practitioners. Careful guidance is given with regard to the construction and presentation of individual outcomes, sketchbooks and portfolios, supported by visual example and written and verbal instruction.

The Fine Art studio forms part of a purpose-built open plan teaching space offering you access to drawing painting and printmaking facilities. Access to digital equipment is also available. A wider range of visual and contextual materials are made freely available, many designed by the teaching team. The course is delivered as two distinct units of study, which test the skills of observation, media handling, ideas development, contextual research and visual realisation. Quality of written expression is especially important in the second year of study.

FIRST YEAR PORTFOLIO – INTERNALLY ASSESSED

A first body of coursework is internally set and marked and is concerned with the construction of a portfolio of studio based drawing, printing and painting working mainly from directly observed sources. The development of this skill set is then utilised fully in pursuit of two independent projects.

ART 7202C (60% OF TOTAL MARK)

A personal investigation is undertaken in the latter period of first year study; the theme for this work is agreed via negotiation between the individual student and the course team and generally originates from the three key themes of Landscape, Portraiture and Still life. This component of the course also requires the undertaking of an illustrated essay related in theme to the nature of the personal investigation.

ART 7202X (40% OF TOTAL MARK)

An externally set exam paper is released in February offering a choice of themes for independently researched visual development and contextual work. The culmination of this body of work is a fifteen-hour exam undertaken in April in which a summative piece of visual work relating to the exam question is undertaken.

An A level in Fine Art may lead naturally to a pre-degree foundation course and then degree level study in a wide range of art & design-based disciplines. The study of art and design at degree level can lead to career opportunities in a wide and varied field. Fine Art students become freelance creative practitioners or work for design companies in many areas including; interior design, jewellery, graphics, illustration, animation, architecture, set design, fashion and textiles, and a host of creative digital industries. Fine Art study may also open opportunities in the field of gallery and exhibition work.

40% EXAMS, 60% COURSEWORK

Information on course specific and pathway specific entry criteria can be found on our website.

An A level in Fine Art may lead naturally to a pre-degree foundation course and then degree level study in a wide range of art & design based disciplines. The study of art and design at degree level can lead to career opportunities in a wide and varied field. Fine Art students become freelance creative practitioners or work for design companies in many areas including; interior design, jewellery, graphics, illustration, animation, architecture, set design, fashion and textiles, and a host of creative digital industries. Fine Art study may also open opportunities in the field of gallery and exhibition work.