Fine Art A

Level OCR

Qualification Overview

If you are passionate about Fine Art, this is the course for you.

Thiscourseencourageslearnerstodevelopskills,creativity,imagination andindependencebasedonpersonalexperience,taughtskillsandcritical understanding.

From Fine Art Painting, Sculpture, Artist Blacksmithing, Fine Art Photography, Curating, Illustration, Installation Art, Animation, Fine Art Printmaking, to Threedimensional Design, this subject provides a life enhancing experience and a foundation which could open the door to a relevant University Degree and career.

This course can lead to careers such as Theatre Design, Art Therapist, Teacher, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Illustrator, Curator, Architecture, Garden Design, Web Design, Photographer, Conservator, Jewellery Design or Artist.

We ask for pupils to have achieved GCSE Art and Design 5 or above.

Approach to Learning

The Art Department offers and delivers a wide ranging multi disciplinary course which is rooted in a Fine Art education. Students will therefore work within the disciplines of Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking. This allows for a wide experience within Fine Art with the option to specialise.

A Closer Look:

The course is divided up into two Components.

The first component comprises two discrete but linked elements. The Practical Portfolio, which consists of a large sustained project or body of work within the Fine Art disciplines, and the Related Study, the related historical context in which their chosen practical portfolio exists.

The second component is the external task which encourages learners to develop a new project or body of work within a shorter period of time and produce a final outcome in fifteen hours.