Art and Design

Course summary

The foundation has 3 components: 1. An intense drawing course, exploring and challenging what drawing is and what it can do. 2. An Issues based project, which supports students in exploring alternative media, such as sculpture and film. 3. A personal project using a theme decided upon by the group. Students are expected to develop the projects in personal ways and extend their projects based on an idea, issue, concept or theme which will eventually lead to a finished piece or pieces. The emphasis of this year is experimenting with ideas, skills and techniques to support and scaffold their assessed work in year. 13. Students are also supported in developing the critical and contextual skills and will complete various reading and written tasks throughout the year. Again this is to support students in developing skills to be able to complete the 1000 - 3000 word essay as part of their submission in year. 13.