TERTIARY & CAREERS PATHWAYS:
Artist, art therapist, game designer, character designer, photographer, commercial art gallery manager, community arts worker, exhibition designer, fashion designer, graphic designer, illustrator, interior designer, special effects technician, stylist
In this course, art making and the investigation of artworks is guided by inquiry learning. Students will learn how they can explore and refine their use of materials, techniques and processes to make finished artworks. They document and record in a Visual Arts journal their development and refinement of skills used in techniques and processes, and they justify and evaluate their selection in art making. Through the development of their finished artworks, students synthesise and resolve the ideas connected to their subject matter, and they evaluate their use of materials, techniques and processes, art elements and art principles, and aesthetic qualities. They develop their use of visual language and understand how ideas and meaning are communicated in artworks. Students also develop an understanding of the curation, presentation, and conservation and care of artworks. They curate and present their own and others’ artworks for display.
UNIT 3 - Collect, extend and connect
In this unit students are actively engaged in art making using materials, techniques and processes. They explore contexts, subject matter and ideas to develop artworks in imaginative and creative ways. They also investigate how artists use visual language to represent ideas and meaning in artworks. The materials, techniques and processes of the art form the students work with are fundamental to the artworks they make. Students use their Visual Arts journal to record their art making including research of artists, artworks and collected ideas and also document the iterative and interrelated aspects of art making to connect the inspirations and influences they have researched. From the ideas documented in their Visual Arts journal, students plan and develop artworks. These artworks may be made at any stage during this unit, reflecting the students’ own ideas and their developing style. Students will visit an exhibition in either a gallery, museum, other exhibition space or site-specific space. Students research the exhibition of artworks in these exhibition spaces and the role a curator has in planning and writing information about an exhibition.
Learning Activities:
Key Skills Achieved:
Assessment:
To research and plan an exhibition of the artworks of three artists. A visual art journal that includes collecting information from artists and artworks in specific art forms to develop subject matter and ideas in their own art making, making artworks in specific art forms, preparing and presenting a critique and reflecting on feedback.
UNIT 4 - Consolidate, present and conserve
In this unit students make connections to the artworks they have made in Unit 3, consolidating and extending their ideas and art making to further refine and resolve artworks in -specific art forms. The progressive resolution of these artworks is documented in the student’s Visual Arts journal, demonstrating their developing technical skills in a specific art form as well as their refinement and resolution of subject matter, ideas, visual language, aesthetic qualities and style. Students organise the presentation of their finished artworks. They make decisions on how their artworks will be displayed, the lighting they may use, and any other considerations they may need to present their artworks. Students also present a critique of their artworks and receive and reflect on feedback. Students continue to engage with galleries, museums, other exhibition spaces and site-specific spaces and examine a variety of exhibitions. They review the methods used and considerations involved in the presentation, conservation and care of artworks, including the conservation and care of their own artworks.
Learning Activities:
Key Skills Achieved:
Assessment:
To refine and resolve at least one finished artwork in a specific art form and document the materials, techniques and processes used in art making.
VCAA ASSESSMENT - THE OVERALL STUDY SCORE WILL CONSIST OF:
Prerequisites:
N/A
Recommendations:
It is recommended that the student have Visual Art subject experience from previous years.
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