Art & Design

The Art curriculum at HAB has been designed to inspire personal expression through exploring historical, social, political and cultural contexts. These include students studying cubism and its influence on design and culture, the role of portraits (both historical and contemporary) and identity and the personal journey on which this can take an artist.

We are driven by answering the call from leading employers from across the creative industries and beyond who are calling for job-ready, innovative, analytical and inventive problem solvers. They want a workforce with creative skills. The knowledge the students will acquire enables them confidently to practise techniques, both modern and age-old, including drawing, painting, printing, digital, photography, textiles, sculpture and mixed media. Knowledge enables the students to adapt their skills of using these media to create work that is truly thought-provoking.

Students will practise and learn how to become resilient problem solvers who can use knowledge to teach others and work well in a team. Students’ acquisition of knowledge will provide a pathway of lifelong enjoyment of the arts, and the ambition to engage with Britain’s creative industries, which play an essential role shaping how we are seen around the world, and are a vital part of the economy.

Medium-term plans (MTPs) for all years can be downloaded below.