Art & Design

Art and Design at SVC is a practical based subject taught by specialist teachers in two fully equipped art rooms. Students are given the opportunity to develop their skills in painting, drawing, printmaking and three dimensional work using media such as paint, oil pastels, charcoal, pencil and clay.

Students are encouraged to express their creativity whilst learning basic skills which will prepare them for later studies.

Projects at KS3 

Year 7 –
  • Art from the ordinary [drawing and painting]
  • Green Man/Classical Greece [ceramics]
  • Portraits, Matisse and Picasso [mixed media]
Year 8 –
  • Art Deco [ceramics]
  • Cubism [painting and drawing]
  • Rousseau [painting and drawing]
  • Other Artists [group project]
Year 9 -
  • Architecture [ceramics]
  • Natural Form [printmaking]
  • Portraits, Van Gogh, Modigliani and Lichtenstein

KS4

For GCSE students will spend time looking at printmaking, painting, drawing and three dimensional work. They will be encouraged to look at the work of other artists and relate it to their own work. Students are also given the opportunity to spend a day working in a professional print studio as well as visiting the Tate Modern, Tate Britain and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The Art and Design course is entirely project based. There is also and end of course practical exam which you will be given 6 weeks to prepare for.  Coursework makes up 60% of the total marks while the exam accounts for the remaining 40%

 

 

Links

Curwin Print online exhibition      (opens a word document)

Art History Timeline                      (opens a word document)