J.C. – Art

Visual Art at Junior Cycle aims to provide the student with a set of personal attitudes and qualities as well as skills and processes and a sense of the aesthetic.  

Through practical engagement in the areas of art, craft and design, students will develop self-confidence, inquisitiveness, imagination, and creativity. They will also develop authentic, real-world problem-solving capacities and the capacity to work over time, as an individual and in groups, on the design and execution of artistic and aesthetic tasks.  

Within the safe space of the art class, students will experience the authentic visual art processes of imagining, investigating, experimenting, making, displaying and evaluating. Students will develop the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to produce and to engage with authentic and original art, craft and language necessary to engage with contemporary culture. This will further contribute to the students’ understanding of the rich and diverse roles of art, craft and design in historical and contemporary societies and cultures.  

Students engage with the following area of Visual Art practice over the three years of Junior Cycle:  

2D Art – drawing (observational, imaginative and from memory), painting, mixed media, graphic design, batik, print-making, digital art, photography  

3D Art – sculpture / modelling in clay and mixed media, puppetry, set design, product design, mask-making  

In Junior Cycle there are two CBAs, CBA1 in 2nd and CBA2 during first term of 3rd year. The final Visual Art project is completed over 10 weeks from December in 3rd year and it is worth 100% of the JC Visual Art exam.