Fine Art
Course Description
The aim of the Fine Art Course is to enable learners to:
- Seek creative solutions by using materials and techniques intelligently, imaginatively and experimentally.
- Develop your knowledge and understanding of how art and design functions and is valued in diverse cultures and at different times.
- Develop a sense of enquiry, an ability to take practical and intellectual risks, to make considered decisions.
- Make qualitative aesthetic and cultural judgements.
- Articulate your reasons for preference.
- Engage with fine art in the public domain.
Our course develops you as an artist through exploration of painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, digital media and installation. With a first-rate purpose-built studio and visiting artists’ workshops this is one of our most popular and creatively diverse courses. The course begins with a structured programme (Skill Based Unit) of practical techniques and experiments using a variety of media, which you will then take into your own personalised theme (Component 1).
Component 1 gives opportunities for learners to explore and cultivate fundamental skills, knowledge and understanding through a variety of experiences. These may include using sources, such as the local environment, gallery visits, workshops or other resources, to gather visually rich research which supports in-depth investigations. During the course, learners are encouraged to experiment, collaborate, make informed creative decisions and innovate. Your studies should be developed to achieve appropriate depth and a suitably high degree of rigour.
Component 2 is an externally set assignment by the Examination Board, Eduqas and is the final part of the course. This consists of a series of visual and written stimuli from which learners select one theme to elicit a personal practical response and outcome.
