Art and Design will help you develop your intellectual, creative and practical skills. You will be given opportunities to record, investigate and experiment with a wide range of techniques, processes and materials and be expected to demonstrate your aesthetic and critical judgements. Crucially you will be expected to work independently, take creative risks and explore your ideas; working towards producing a personal outcome.

Drawing from observation is a fundamental requirement of the course and underpins everything at A-Level. Sketchbooks will allow you to record the development of artwork and to refine your skills.  As you progress through the course you will find ways of developing your own interests and personal style informed by your understanding of other artists and designers’ work.

All students will produce practical and critical/ contextual work in one or more areas, including drawing, painting, mixed media, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, installation, printmaking, digital art, moving image and photography.

In the second year of the course students will be given the option to specialise in a particular area in negotiation with subject staff.

The Art and Photography Department run a biennial overseas trip and have in the past visited Paris and Barcelona.

Student exhibit their final work in an end of year exhibition.