Art

Contained within the range of extremely popular and successful subjects comprising the Art, Design and Technology Faculty at Kingsdale, the Art Department is well-established as a powerhouse of creative achievement in Kingsdale. 

Aims: The Art Department vision is ‘To enrich the quality of experiences, by providing an experimental, contemporary curriculum, that stimulates, inspires, excites and challenges students, and generates future passionate and ambitious innovators and new thinkers.’

Facilities: Within the Department we have twelve specialist Art teachers and one Art technician. The standard of teaching in the Art Department is outstanding. This has been recognised by Ofsted and throughout the school. The facilities we offer include a specialist ceramics studio with attached kiln room, a specialist photography studio and computer suite with both Mac and PC packages, a darkroom and eight general art studios that are used for painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, graphics and textiles. The Art Department also has its own Art Gallery to display our students’ work. Within the Department we offer four areas of specialism - Fine Art, Textiles, Photography and Graphics. 

Sketchbooks:

• recording, exploring and storing visual information. 
• working out ideas, plans, proposals and designs. 
• looking back and reflecting on their own work, reviewing, evaluating and identifying their progress.
• recording of their learning and achievement, which they can use to develop further ideas, skills and understanding.

We also encourage students to use their sketchbook in a range of approaches that include: 

• keeping a visual record of their observations from first hand/primary sources, such as, natural forms, buildings, manmade objects etc.
• recording personal responses to their experiences, environment, communicating ideas, feelings and interests. 
• explore possibilities from their own imagination. 
• analysing methods and techniques.
• making written notes about artists, art movements, cultures and the visual elements. 

Galleries and Museums:

We maintain strong links with the Dulwich Picture Gallery, located just a few minutes away from the school. We also visit other London galleries and museums, such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Tate Modern, the Tate Britain, the Saatchi Gallery, the Courtauld Institute, the Wellcome Collection and the Horniman Museum. We also offer an Art & Design trip, usually overseas, to our Key Stage 5 Art, Graphics, Textiles and Photography students. We have previously visited Paris, Berlin, Florence, and Barcelona. Trips prove to be uniquely enriching for students many of whom produce work while away towards their final coursework projects. 

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