Visual Arts & Design/Fashion Styling & Textiles 

Curriculum Overview

Industry Partners:

            

On this vibrant course, you will study traditional and contemporary techniques in visual arts, sculpture, drawing, painting illustration, community art, textiles, photography, digital design, graphic design, film making and fine art. The department has extensive facilities with studios for 2D and 3D work, textiles, screen printing, photography studio/darkroom, and Mac & PC suite for digital manipulation. With a host of enrichment projects, activities and exciting live briefs, students will extend their knowledge and understanding and feed their entrepreneurial spirit. Companies students have gone on to work with include Google, Channel 4 (4Creative), Uniqlo, Vogue, Bazaar, Lacoste, Dazed Magazine and Burberry.

 

At Post 16 there are two options available: ‘Visual Arts & Design Route’ and ‘Fashion, Styling & Textiles Route’. For both routes we offer the UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Art, Design and Communication (equivalent to three A Levels). 

Route One: Visual Arts & Design

Explores a variety of technical skills within: Fine art (sculpture, painting & drawing), photography/film, print, graphics and illustration.

Route Two: Fashion, Styling & Textiles

Explores a variety of technical skills with a fashion focus from: Textiles, pattern cutting, machining, print, photography, styling, fashion illustration, editorial and graphic design.

Visual Arts and Design has extensive facilities with studios that cater for 2D and 3D work. These facilities range from textiles, screen printing, photography studio/darkroom, and Mac & PC suite for digital manipulation. All projects have a vocational focus that offer opportunities to work with outside agencies as well as other departments within the School on community art projects.

We encourage all students to proactively exhibit their work, both at school and externally. We support the curriculum with enrichment projects, so students have the opportunity to consider their work in a wider professional context. Students can choose from a variety of activities to extend their knowledge and understanding or feed their entrepreneurial spirit.

 

Industry Opportunities

We collaborate with a range of creative industry partners to ensure our students receive the most up-to-date education and real-world experience. These include: 

• The Horniman Museum: students exhibit work from a Live brief Wearable Art Project in year 10. 
• Gallery visits are an important part of students' learning and we endeavour to make this a prominent part of the experience.
• We have worked with organisations and brands including Burberry, Alice Made This, Dr Martens, forpeople, The Royal Academy, UAL on live briefs
• Students will exhibit their work, both at school and externally in galleries and spaces. 
• Host Workshops are delivered by our alumni who are working in the industry.

 

What Qualities Do I Need?

• Students who demonstrate an enthusiasm for arts and design
• A creative thinker
• The ability to overcome boundaries and challenges

 

How Do I Apply

Pease answer these questions online for both Visual Arts & Design Route & Fashion Styling & Textiles Route (You can only choose one route)