This year the CAO offers are very significant to me , although
I did my Leaving Cert in 2011 got points that I was happy with, I decided to go
ahead and follow the route of Art College. The prospect of a future career and
opportunities was always going to be questionable but I was defiant and determined
to follow through with my passion for art. Art had always been my ‘thing’; I
was utterly obsessed with it even from a young age through primary school up
until Leaving Cert. I would always enter competitions and put so much time and
effort into it, without seeing it as work.
During 6th Year I built up a portfolio and was
successful in my interview, once I got my results I was sure about taking a
place on the Art and Design Foundation course starting in September. I wasn’t sure
what specialism I wanted to base my degree on so it was a great opportunity to
have the year since I got the chance to experiment with areas such as Ceramics,
Textiles, Animation, 3D Design, Fine Art, Print and Visual Communications.
A few months into my course we had to start thinking about
where we wanted to go next year and what we wanted to do, that meant applying
for UCAS and CAO all over again. At that point I had decided I only wanted to
consider Fine Art and Visual Communications courses. I applied for courses in
DIT, IADT, NCAD and LYIT all places based in Ireland. I had no intentions of
going overseas to England on my own and with fees of up to £8000 I was not
willing to go to Belfast or Derry either
so as a result I gave UCAS a miss
this year. My tutor did spend weeks trying to convince me to apply to Falmouth College for illustration but unfortunately the only thing I knew about Falmouth
was that it “Noah and The Whale” often performed there and as much as I
appreciate the band they couldn’t seal the deal for me.
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