Welcome by Senior HE Programme Manager | Jamie Hanson

The highly qualified lecturing staff on the FdA Art and Design Practice programme are all practising specialists within their own fields of art and design. We operate industry-standard workshops using the latest equipment and expertise. 

Our interdisciplinary approach allows a student to keep an open mind about materials and methods, and to develop their own specialised skills within specific art and design specialisms, creating a unique approach to their own practice. As a student on the course you will have the opportunity to gain experience in collaboration, painting, design, communication, creative enterprise, digital media, image making, installation, animation, materials innovation, textiles, ceramics, metals, new technologies, model-making, mark making, plastics, print, professional practice, public art, and film. 

The programme also includes contextual studies, professional practice, and computer applications, including a Dissertation module in the final year. The course also encourages students to work creatively with outside organisations as varied as Truro Cathedral, KROWJI, St Michael’s Mount, Newlyn Art Gallery & Royal Cornwall Museum. 

A graduate from this course will be self-motivated, questioning and knowledgeable, and be able to see themselves, as a positive agent of change in the current art and design landscape. After graduation there are many avenues of employment to pursue, including teaching/ lecturing, or graduates may wish to set up their own art and design practice. Further academic study includes a variety of art and design teaching qualifications or postgraduate study at MA level.

This exciting art and design degree at Cornwall College brings together our Higher Education expertise in Fine Art, Ceramics, Fine Art Textiles, Graphic Design, Surface Design, Illustration, Photography and 3D Design into a unique and vibrant interdisciplinary course.

Today’s artists and designers have to be adaptable individuals, constantly moving between different methods of work. Our course aims to provide an invigorating blend of traditional, contemporary and innovative approaches to learning, and is unique to Cornwall and the South West. 

Jamie Hanson | Senior Programme Manager | FdA Art and Design Practice

Joining Instructions

Year 1

Year 2

• Arendt, H.  (1998) The Human Condition. 2^nd edn. London: University of Chicago Press.
• Baines, P. and Haslam, A. (2002) Type and Typography. London: Lawrence King.
• Bal, M. (2009) Narratology: Introduction to the theory of narrative. 3^rd edn. Toronto: Toronto UP.
• Barthes, R. (1982) Camera Lucida: Reflections on photography, London: Cape.
• Baudrillard, J. and Poster, M. (1975) The Mirror of Production. US: Telos Press.
• Borzello, F. (2006) At Home: The Domestic Interior in Art. High Holborn: Thames and Hudson Ltd. 
• Bourriaud, N. (2002) Postproduction: Culture as Screenplay, How Art Reprograms the World. (2^nd edn). New York: Lukas and Sternberg.
• Bracewell, M. (2009) The Dark Monarch – Magic and Modernity in British Art. Tate Publishing.
• Burton,  J. (2005) Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. London: Phaidon Press.
• Chambers, E. and Northridge, A. (1997) The Arts Good Study Guide. Milton Keynes: OUP.
• Cohen, A. and Wellman, C. (eds.) (2005) Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics. London: Blackwell.
• Cottrell, S. (2008) The Study Skills Handbook. 3^rd edn. Basingstoke/Hampshire: Palgrave/Macmillan.
• Gablik, S. (2004) Has Modernism Failed? 2^nd edn. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Herman, D. and  Jahn, M. (eds.) (2005) Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge.
• Jencks, C. (2010) The Post-modern Reader. London: John Wiley and Sons.
• Kinross, R. (1992) Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History. London: Hyphen Press.
• Lacy, S. (eds.) (1994) Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art. Seattle, Washington: Bay Press.
• Lippard, L. (2011) The Lure of the Local. New York: New York Press.
• Marcuse, H. (1979) The Aesthetic Dimension. London: The Macmillan Press.
• Murphy, S. (2010) The Art Kettle. Hants: Zero Books.
• Paolozzi, E. (1985) Lost Magic Kingdoms. The British Museum Catalogue. 
• Perry, G. (2013) The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. The British Museum Catalogue.
• Rose, G. (2001) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. London: Sage.
• Singer, P. (1993) Practical Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Sennett, R. (2009) The Craftsman. London: Penguin.
• Spuybroek, L. ( 2012) The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design. Rotterdam: NAI Publishers.
• Wilde, J. (1991) Visual Literacy. New York: Watson-Guptill.       
• Wolff, J. (1984) The Social Production of Art. 2^nd edn. New York: New York University Press.