Foundation Diploma in Art, Design & Media Truro & Penwith College Foundation Diploma in Art, Design & Media
What is a Foundation Course? What will I do?
An intensive one-year course that allows you to Explore the visual world through drawing, 3D and discover your creative potential by experiencing a image making while experimenting with a variety of wide range of art and design disciplines and that media. helps you to identify the creative path you wish to follow. Study art and design, discuss contemporary visual practice and investigate popular culture. It is the established route to an Art and Design Degree programme from A Level, Extended Plan and make creative designs, models, Diploma and AVCE Art and Design courses, photographs, drawings, paintings, prints preparing you for the demands of specialist and sculptures. programmes in Higher Education. Participate in technical workshops, projects and regular life drawing classes.
What will it enable me to do? Use study trips to galleries and artists’ studios to inform individual creative practice and broaden Make an informed application to a specialist art awareness of art and design approaches. or design degree course:
Fine Art Ceramics Drawing Graphic Painting Communication Sculpture Multimedia Design Photography Illustration Print Making Animation Three Dimensional Fashion Design Design Special Effects Product Design Textile Design Jewellery Design Surface Pattern Interior Design Fashion Illustration foundation-art-truro.blogspot.com
The Foundation Diploma in Applicants over 21 may have the requirements of Art & Design at Truro College formal qualifications waived. All applicants will attend an interview with a portfolio of work. l High staff/student ratio ensuring maximum support. If you are aged 19 or over when you start in September then you will be expected to pay the l Wide range of facilities and specialist staff. appropriate course fee. You will need to take out an Advanced Learner Loan or pay the entire cost l Excellent progression routes to a wide range yourself. of creative courses. l Lecturers are practicing artists and designers. How to apply l Excellent purpose built facilities, set in an inspiring Complete the attached application form and country estate location. return it to: Truro College, College Road, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3XX. l Level 3 course that has been assigned Showcase Centre Status by ABC Awarding Body 2015-2018. You will be called for an interview, where you will be expected to bring evidence of your interest in art and design and visual ability that could include: drawings, paintings, photographs, sketchbooks, How can I join the course? textiles and any three dimensional work. We will be particularly interested in working drawings and Normally you will be 18 years old and have designs, which indicate the way you work through achieved at least one of the following: ideas.
A two-year A Level programme Further information may be obtained from the Art & + 5 GCSEs at A to C or grade 4 to 9. Design Curriculum Secretary on 01872 267030.
Extended Diploma in Fine Art or a named Design Pathway.
AVCE Double Award in Art and Design. Exploration, Pathway and Confirmation Stage Two
Stage One The Pathway stage will develop your skills within a specialist area of art and design. This could be within fine art, graphic design and illustration, The Exploratory projects will develop your textural surfaces, photography, moving image or creative thinking. Technical workshops introduce 3D. Specialist lecturers will take responsibility for techniques, materials and processes within art each of these study areas, focusing on the distinct and design. aesthetic issues and underpinning knowledge that affects the discipline. A lecture programme will expand your knowledge of historical and contemporary theory and will You will take responsibility and initiate your own include the investigation of culture as well as the projects, equipping yourself with a portfolio that working practices of visiting artists and designers. demonstrates your potential as a specialist art and design undergraduate. During this stage This first stage is designed to help you identify there will be a study trip to a European capital to your areas of interest with demanding visual research work in museums and galleries and the projects, constructing and deconstructing images, professional practice of art and design. communication through images and text and working three dimensionally. The overall emphasis will be on developing creative responses and Stage Three identifying individual strengths. The Confirmatory stage requires that you write a proposal for a final major project in your chosen specialism. This provides you the opportunity to bring together all your research, creative and practical skills in one project, which will reflect your personal ambition. This final stage will be an externally examined exhibition.
The Pathway stage is about developing your skills within a broad area such as fine art, graphic design & illustration, 3D, photography or textural surfaces. Truro & Penwith College and the Tregye Campus Tregye Built as a country estate in 1809, Tregye was bought by Truro College in September 1999. Truro & Penwith College The country house is set in its own grounds with mature gardens and exotic trees, including Truro and Penwith College is a tertiary college the famous ginkgo tree, which lends its name to that delivers further education (14 - 19) and has a the art building. The grounds provide extensive reputation of being one of the best colleges in the views of the countryside reaching down to the country. It is also a significant provider of university Fal estuary. level programmes of study in a wide range of academic and professional areas. Tregye is within a short travelling distance of Loe Beach, six miles from Mylor Yachting The College is the first in the country to retain Harbour and seven miles from the Truro campus. its ‘Outstanding’ status by Ofsted under its new The site is four miles from Truro City Centre, inspection framework, which recognised Truro and there is a local bus service running regularly and Penwith College for its quality of teaching to and from Truro. The closest bus stop to and learning. It is noted for its outstanding Tregye is approximately half a mile away in outcomes for learners, the personal development, the village of Carnon Downs. Car parking is behaviour and welfare of its students and excellent available on site. facilities and resources.
The showcase exhibition
Every year, Truro and Penwith College organises a week-long exhibition through which students can showcase their work. From textiles to sculpture and jewellery to painting, students have the opportunity to exhibit their work to the community. The exhibition helps build confidence for the students and prepares them for a life in the creative industries. Inspirational Cornwall
Cornwall is a county on England’s south western The county is home to a large number of art galleries, tip. The peninsula encompasses wild moorland museums, art schools, artist studios and historic and hundreds of sandy beaches and hidden coves, properties, inspiring gardens and creative events, culminating at Land’s End. The south coast, dubbed festivals and venues. Newlyn Exchange and Tate St the Cornish Riviera, is home to sheltered picturesque Ives, have completed new transformation projects and harbour villages while the wild north Atlantic coast every year Open Studios Cornwall allows everyone to is lined with towering cliffs and wide open beaches visit studios and workshops. known for surfing. Cornwall is also home to key arts organisations in the Cornwall is steeped in culture and art and design. South West, including the internationally acclaimed Its outstanding natural beauty and distinctive quality Kneehigh and Miracle theatre companies, the Eden of light attracts many artists, designers, makers and Project and the Port Elliot Festival. writers to live and work here. Cornwall’s glorious landscape and its wealth of art Historically, Cornwall gave rise to many galleries and studios and cultural events, attracts internationally important artistic communities, visitors from all over the world. such as St Ives and Newlyn and to this day, many contemporary art and design practitioners are Truro and Penwith College, based in west, east thriving and working from this unique peninsula. and central Cornwall, is perfectly placed to take full The art department at the college has close working advantage of the artistic and cultural life of the county. links with many of the successful Cornish galleries including Tregony Gallery, Lander Gallery and Porthminster Gallery, among others. Selected Foundation Alumni
Thom Green Clea Griffiths Studied Fine Art at Leeds. Now in the famous band Studied Special Effects at Hertfordshire. Now works Alt J, who won big prizes at the Mercury Prize and for ICA Creations and is self employed. perform all around the world. Alex Huffer Josh McKenna “You get so much one to one attention and feed back, Studied Automotive Design for a year at Coventry, since coming to university I have realized how lucky before swapping to Illustration at Falmouth we were in this area! It was the perfect way to get University. Has a studio in Dalston, London and ready for Uni and I had a brilliant time doing it!” is a successful Illustrator - has worked for Wall St Journal, Condé Nast and produced a big window Nigel Kitts display for Debenhams. “I’m currently doing my second year of Digital Animation at Falmouth University, thanks to the excellent lecturers Kit Claydon at Tregye I had a really solid portfolio of life drawing, Is a successful freelance Fine Artist. Lives and works observational sketches, photography and photoshop in Cornwall. work.”
Emma Cook Some progression institutions: Studied Textile Design at the Royal College of Art, worked for John Lewis and gives regular university Slade School of Fine Art, UCL talks. Lives in London. Central Saint Martins Arts University Bournemouth Kirsty Hopkins Leeds College of Art Studied Illustration at the London College of University of the West of England Communication. Works for Pentlandite Brands in Falmouth University London and previously worked for Nike in Germany. University of Brighton London MET Ella Hudson University of the Arts London Studied Illustration at Falmouth University and now Newcastle University has success with children’s picture books. Goldsmiths, University of London Kingston University Edinburgh College of Art Foundation Diploma in Art, Design & Media
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Cover photography: Clare Kennedy-Smith.