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Art
A level Art involves more than just your drawing or painting skills.
It’s about learning to work creatively and experimentally to develop your ideas in a variety of mediums.
On this course, you will improve your technical skills with brushes, pens, pencils and less conventional media. More importantly, you will develop an appreciation of the visual world around you.
You will look at the creative process and how to pursue your own ideas, integrating and building upon other people’s work to push the boundaries of the materials you are working with.
Assessment will be via coursework, timed assessments, practical work and personal study. For timed assessments, the exam board will set a general area such as “Exploration and Discovery” around which you will base a project, creating work under timed conditions.
Progression routes
This course can lead to a variety of career routes including art, graphic design, fashion design, animation, illustration, product design, advertising and marketing. We’ve even had a student progress on to a foundation degree in architecture at the University of Bristol after studying this course.
Entry requirements
Grade 9-4 at GCSE in a creative subject or an interest in the subject.
