Art and Design (Fine Art)

Course summary

Art and design stimulates creativity and imagination. It provides visual, tactile and sensory experiences and a unique way of understanding and responding to the world. This course enables you to use and understand art, craft and design as a form of visual communication, to have confidence in reading and evaluating visual images and artifacts. You will also develop your ability to experiment and explore a range of media to realise your intentions. We teach from a fine art perspective – you will be expected to draw, paint, print, photograph and sculpt your observations of the world around you, developing these through sustained experimentation and by making connections with a wide range of other artists’ work. The main element of the course is practical art making in the studio, although you will also be introduced to key conceptual and analytical theories and be expected to undertake written analysis. You will need to be able to research independently and to have your own ideas about issues and your immediate environment - the world in which you live.