Art, Design & Photography - Level 1 Art & Design

This creative and exciting pathway is aimed at broadening and expanding your specialist artistic art and design skills in areas such as drawing, design, painting, printmaking, surface design and digital applications. Working within a creative studio environment and IT suites, you will develop artistic knowledge, self-confidence, communication, time-management and presentation skills, resulting in a professional portfolio and body of work.

Exploring the work and ideas of other artists and designers is key to underpinning all assignment work and aiding independent idea generation and development. This course includes industrial links and live briefs to develop wider communication skills, team work, confidence, resilience and time management.

Examples of some of the units / modules you may study are:

Exploratory Drawing and Mark Making

Ideas Generation

Printmaking

Surface Pattern

3-D Material Exploration

Time-Based Media

Communication Skills

You will be continually assessed by your tutors throughout the academic year, and an external moderator will verify and confirm your final grades.

Level 1 - will complete 10 units which are graded at a Pass, Merit or Distinction.

3 GCSEs at Grade 9-1.

For Interview

When you attend your interview, please bring along your latest school report, your predicted grades and one piece of work from your portfolio.

Further study

On completion with the appropriate pass and English and Maths grades you can progress through the levels.

This study programme offers progression to a variety of Level 2 and Level 3 art-related courses. Our own HND Art and Design (Art Practice) is a recommended progression route and the new BA Art and Design (Top-Up) or you may wish to apply to a university. During the course we will explain all the possible options and support you through the progression process.