Drawing and Design in Fine Art

Produce a body of work using a range of drawing techniques. Select drawing approaches in relation to personal intention. Evaluation to further development. Relationship between mark-making, the presentation format and the ideas to be recorded and conveyed. Line, tone, texture, color, contour. Materials: graphite/pencil and paper; ink/brush and paper; wire/pliers and space; mouse/VDU and diskette.

Developing Fine Art Language

Fine art as a unique means of communication. Practical and theoretical work to consolidate knowledge of visual grammar. Expand visual literacy and refine working vocabulary to increase potency of expression. Use appropriate systems and conventions to visually represent a range of objective and subjective meanings and messages. Skills in interpretation of work by other artists.

Curating and Participating in Exhibitions

Students should contact galleries or organizations to arrange to participate in exhibition process, both as director and contributor. Use a range of techniques in preparation and installation of work. Evaluate the exhibited work. Make a contribution to managing the exhibition process. Understanding the role of curators and gallery managers.

Painting

Painting as medium of personal creative intentions. Potential of traditional or contemporary painting materials and techniques.Systematic investigation to extend visual thinking and creativity. Produce body of painting reflecting personal creative intentions. Consider formal values while painting. Painting professional practice involving presentation and management skills, relevant legislation, ethical and environmental considerations.

Developing a Fine Art Identity

Identify subjects with potential for sustained personal investigation. Devise strategies to explore chosen subject. Produce a body of work that supports, clarifies and deepens understanding of the subject and shows a growing fine art identity. Position within current pluralistic context of fine art practice. Demonstrate critical understanding of work produced. Review issues relating to creative drive and self-motivation.

Historical and Contextual Referencing

Introduction to cultural history which informs current thought and debate in art, craft and design. Emphasis on student initiative in research and study skills, using electronic sources and paper based materials. Understanding of influences that have informed current social and creative attitudes. Presentation of findings and conclusions. Attention to South Asia , Islamic culture sphere, and Western trends.

Printmaking as a medium to realize personal creative intentions. Develop understanding of traditional and contemporary materials and techniques. Produce a body of work in printmaking. Use systematic investigation to extend visual thinking and creativity. Consider formal values. Professional practice when producing print work, presentation and management skills, relevant legislation, and ethical and environmental considerations.

Fine Art Sculpture

Study of sculpture as medium through which to realize personal creative intentions. Produce a body of work. Consider formal values, use of materials and processes. Professional practice in sculpture, including presentation and management skills, relevant legislation, ethical and environmental considerations. Islamic cultural attitudes, and contemporary Western practices.

Critical Study

Demonstrate understanding of historical evolution and visual characteristics of work of artists, designers and craftspeople. Analyses specialist work by applying appropriate methods of research and information retrieval. Investigate how historical, contextual and contemporary practices influence the student's particular specialist pathway. Review writings and critiques of a range of art, craft and design, and presentation of a personal view.

Fine Art Ceramics

Produce a body of ceramic work that realizes personal creative intentions. Consider formal values, traditional and contemporary materials and processes. Potential of development of high quality production and design for ceramics business. Professional practice in ceramics, including presentation and management skills, legislation, ethical and environmental considerations.

Fine Art Photography

Use of photography as an art form through which to demonstrate personal creativity. Potential of traditional and digital photographic techniques. Investigation of properties, processes and approaches to extend visual thinking and creativity. Professional practice, including preparation, developing, framing, presentation, management skills, legislation, ethical, cultural and environmental considerations. Islamic culture and restraints on human photography, issues of permission and privacy.

Visual Arts Professional Practice

Investigates a diverse range of situations which arise in lives of artists. Legislation, personal liability, safety, and ethical issues affecting artists working in professional context. Consideration of cultural and religious issues. Organize and present specialist portfolio of work to a professional standard. How to promote and market self and work. Presentation skills of attitude, dress and manner.

Installation and Performance

Explore ideas of personal significance through physical creation or transformation of a space, live performance/presentation or a combination of both. Explore expressive/comm unica tive, relationships between themselves, the society, and the audience. Technical and organizational problems. Test outcome through participation of live audience and feedback.

Drawing: Personal Development

Relationships linking drawing with visualizing concepts and realizing ideas. Develop personal skills in a range of mark-making techniques, materials and processes. Produce a body of drawings relating practices to ideas.

Evaluate drawing to further personal development. Continue process of developing a fine art identity. Adopt inventive and experimental approaches. Research work of established artists to learn how drawing was used as a creative tool.

Site Specific Art

Investigate potential for site specific art in relation to particular site and purpose. Determine approaches to work and the preparation of proposals.

Materials & Processes in Fine Arts

Explore traditional and non-traditional materials and processes. Evaluate and explain use of materials and processes in relation to form and content. Demonstrate theoretical and practical knowledge of precedents for personal exploration. Awareness of health, safety and environmental issues relevant to materials and processes.

Photography and Lighting

Lens Based Recording Techniques: Introduction to a range of lens-based techniques for researching ideas, recording information and documenting work in progress and finished product.

Student's culminating definitive personal statement about their specialist practice. Formulate critical statement of agreement about own practice. Produce body of work that confirms sustained independent self development Opportunities for professional development through specialist work produced. Identify points of departure for new personal work.

Presenting & Exhibiting Art Work

Review range of techniques for presentation and exhibition of work. Research circumstances affecting exhibition of artwork. Use various techniques. Evaluate presentation and exhibition methods. Students visit art galleries and exhibitions.