National 5
Art and Design · National 5
Expressive and design folios, plus a written paper on artists and designers.
What Art and Design is about
Art and Design is two disciplines in one course: an expressive folio where you develop your own ideas in a chosen theme and medium, and a design folio where you answer a brief — research, idea development and a resolved outcome.
What it offers you
It builds visual literacy, observational drawing and the discipline of a self-directed project: the groundwork for portfolio entry to art school, design courses and creative work.
Papers & marking schemes
2026
2 files2025
2 files2024
2 files2023
2 files2022
2 filesSQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Art and Design National 5 on sqa.org.uk.