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
For Route One: Visual Arts & Design, please answer these questions online:
a.
What art and design materials and processes have you used in your previous work (this could be digital)? Why have you chosen these?
b.
Tell us about your previous art and design experiences, in and out of school.
c.
Which artists, crafts, people or designers have you been inspired by? How have these influenced your work?
d.
Choose a piece of work by an artist or designer and describe what you understand about it.
For Route Two: Fashion Styling & Textiles, please answer these questions online:
a.
What sewing and/or textile techniques have you had experience in before? How have you applied these?
b.
Tell us about your previous fashion and textiles experiences, in and out of school.
c.
Tell us about your fashion and /or textiles interests and inspirations. How have you incorporated this into your work?
d.
Choose a historical or contemporary garment, collection or practitioner and describe what their work means to you.