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CAO Course Code: LC102
First Year Art & Design - Portfolio Assessment
This assessment is to determine your artistic/creative suitability and will consist of a review of your portfolio and discussion of the content of your work. The portfolio will be scored out of 600 with a minimum score of 240 required. Only those who are successful at this stage will be considered for places. As the number of applicants who are successful after the Portfolio Assessment is normally greater than the number of places available, the system of final selection is done on the basis of points. The portfolio score will be added to the Leaving Certificate score to rank you for entry.
A successful portfolio should contain work from the Art class
situation, directed by the Art Teacher as well as self initiated work.
Drawing and Painting from observation including, still-life, landscape,
mechanical & organic forms; Design and Pattern Work including:
preparatory work for any craftwork, life drawing and painting; 3D work, i.e.
pottery, sculpture, dressmaking, knitting, weaving, woodwork, metalwork,
etc.; Photography; Sketchbooks and Notebooks.
Any 2D/3D work you have completed should be presented at the
assessment. If there are transport difficulties with very large work, photographs/
slides/preparatory related to this work should be presented. Consider the work
to be more “Sheets of Information” rather than finished pictures. Attempt to use
the page in a different way. Use the page to make a series:
of studies from a source – the source; may be an object, a room, a garage, a shed, etc.;
of objects: furniture, bikes, tools, utensils, etc.;
of explorations of your source;
of preparatory investigations.
There could be one or more images on the page, if you are doing a drawing on the page in which you are attempting to examine the structure of a plant, show how the stalks bend this way and that; how the leaves are attached to the stalks; how the petals fit together around the seed head etc. Instead of making one drawing of the whole plant, it would be much more interesting to make each of the investigations mentioned above, the subject of a separate drawing – but all on the same page.
You must also include a Sketchbook or Visual Journal of Visual
Information that you have recorded from observation, i.e. your immediate
home environment – your garden, shed, etc.
Application
Application forms are available from the Central Application Office (CAO) in Galway, or register online at www.cao.ie. All Applications to Art & Design, must be sent to the CAO prior to 1st February of the year of application. No late applications will be accepted.
Approximately five weeks after your application to the CAO, the
LIT Admissions Office will send you a letter requesting you to confirm your
interest in Limerick School of Art & Design. This letter is to confirm the
number of Applicants for the Portfolio Assessment which is carried out
with the applicant present.
If you’d like to see around Clare Street and can’t make it to our Open Days or at another time, the Students’ Union are available to assist with guided tours during the time of Portfolio Assessments. All Assessments will be held in LSAD, Clare Street, Limerick (see map page 269). Portfolio Assessment results are notified to applicants by the LIT Admissions Office.
Mature Students (any EU National over the age of 23 before 1st
January of the year of application) must indicate such on their application
to CAO; only mature student applications made before 1st of February will
be considered.
The Institute will try to assess all non-standard applications on
the basis of information provided, but it reserves the right to call such
applicants to the Institute to assess their cases.
All mature applicants must attend a Portfolio Assessment and
be interviewed. Portfolio Assessments look at the level of commitment,
creativity, competence, comprehension, investigation, efficiency in the
portfolio of work submitted where the interview is to evaluate your ability
to successfully complete the academic subjects of the course.
For Application Form contact
Central Applications Office
Tower house
eglinton street
Galway
www.cao.ie