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Courses

Art & Design

What you can study

  • New Diploma in Creative and Media
  • Art & Design First Diploma
  • Art & Design Design National Certificate/Diploma
  • Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art, Design & Media)
  • FdA Creative Practices – Graphics
  • FdA Creative Practices – Fine Art (taught at our Queens Road campus)
  • FdA Creative Practices – Fashion
  • FdA Creative Practices – Photography
  • HND (3D Design) Studio Ceramics (taught at our Queens Road campus)
  • HND (3D Design) Jewellery (taught at our Queens Road campus)
  • HND (3D Design) Glass (taught at our Queens Road campus)


We also offer...
Art & Design AS and A2 Level – Please refer to our A-Level section.

Facilities

Students will have access to a “base studio” working space relevant to their course of study and well equipped specialist studios for work in areas such as:

  • Graphic Design
  • Fashion and Textiles
  • 3D Design
  • Photography
  • Fine Art.

We have Apple Macintosh suites, a printmaking studio and digital darkroom, relief printing and screenprinting, a ceramics facility, a 3D workshop, a fashion studio, black and white and colour darkroom, an audio visual studio for film and animation studies and a textile workshop all supported by qualified technicians. Students are offered the opportunity to take part in residential visits in the UK and abroad.

We have a fashion show once a year which is the showpiece for the creative efforts of our Art and Design fashion students. Staff and students work closely together to stage the event before a packed auditorium.

The Bristol School of Art at Queen’s Road is a separate part of Filton College, situated in the centre of Bristol in the Royal West of England Academy building. It has been an Art School since 1858.

Facilities include a new Apple Mac Suite, stained glass, jewellery, enamelling, sculpture and painting studios, a large purpose-built life drawing studio, a large ceramics studio and printmaking studios.

For further information email info@filton.ac.uk