Award: A-Level
Awarding Body: AQA
Specification Code: 7202
Specification Website: AQA Art & Desgin
Institution: Bayside, Westisde
Fine art offers opportunities to use your creativity to express yourself. You will develop your understanding of creative processes, your ability to observe and to think, to solve problems and to communicate in a visual way. It will enable you to work independently and to make your own discoveries by exploring ideas, other artists’ work and different materials and techniques. Fine art gives you the skills and knowledge to create personal and imaginative work. If you have an adventurous, creative and enquiring mind and are excited by shaping and determining the visual world around us, there is a career opportunity waiting for you.
The A-level is a practical course in which you learn by doing, so you will be able to create imaginative personal work. You will find out about a whole range of media, techniques and processes. You will develop your creativity and independent thought, learn to express yourself visually and let your imagination flourish. Fine Art is a great companion to all other subjects as creativity, imagination and problem solving skills can give you great ideas for your other subjects.
Fine Art A-level builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding developed through study at GCSE. At the end of the A-level course you will have the skills, knowledge and understanding needed for higher education.
Drawing
Painting
Mixed-media (including collage and assemblage)
Sculpture
Ceramics
Installation
Printmaking
Moving image (film and video).
Non-exam assessment (NEA) set and marked by the centre and moderated by AQA during a visit to the centre. Visits will normally take place in June.
No time limit
96 marks
60% of A-Level
Non-exam assessment (NEA) set and marked by the centre and moderated by AQA during a visit to the centre. Visits will normally take place in June.
Preparatory period + 15 hours supervised time
96 marks
40% of A-level
2D and 3D animation
3D design
Applied arts
Architecture
Art history
Art therapy
Ceramics
Digital media
Fine art painting
Fine art printmaking
Fine art sculpture
Game design
Illustration
Industrial design
Interior architecture and design
Visual communication
Visual effects for film and television
Studying a fine art related degree at university can give you all sorts of exciting career opportunities including:
Architect
Art technician
Art therapist
Art valuer
Artist in residence
Arts administrator
Community arts worker
Illustrator
Lecturer
Multimedia artist
Mural artist
Museum/gallery curator
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Teacher