Year 12 ATAR

SCSA Final Artwork - Practical Submission Date 2025:

Tuesday, 23rd September 2025 (Term 3, Week 10)

We live in the most image-saturated world ever. More photos get taken each year than they did for the entire first 70 years of the 20th Century. An artist takes their time to view an image, for hours on end. They believe that what they are looking at deserves their time, and yours.

Art is on the clothes that we wear, the textiles that we buy and we decorate our homes with it. Art is sculptural, with three-dimensional forms, two dimensions such as painting, drawing, and printmaking, as well as multimedia, mixed media, video, sound, and digital.

* An understanding of the Year 11 content is assumed knowledge for students in Year 12

The artwork below is made by students in their final year at high school - same age and stage as you! Some of these artworks were selected to be displayed at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and there is no reason why yours shouldn't be there too!

Perspectives Examples

This course will require 100% of your effort if you want to succeed. You will need to work hard constantly and keep working every day. Avoid 'taking a break'. You will get behind.

Talk about your ideas as often as you can to different people. Take a sketchbook with you to different places, and note down any ideas that come to you whilst you are out and about, or even when you first wake up in the morning.

You are expected to reflect and review the development of your ideas to produce quality and originality. Be ready to critically analyse your own work and help a friend to do the same.

SEMESTER 1 - Commentaries

Students engage with the social and cultural purposes of art making and interpretation. The focus is on commentaries. Broad and innovative inquiry includes the conceptualisation and documentation of experiences within contemporary society. Students transform ideas and develop concepts using innovative approaches to art making and presentation. They document their thinking and working practices, having the flexibility to work across media and art forms. Students research artwork providing critical comment on the meaning, purpose and values communicated. They examine their own beliefs and consider how the visual arts have reflected and shaped society in different times and place

SEMESTER 2 - Points of View

Students identify and explore concepts or issues of personal significance in the presentation of a sustained, articulate and authentic body of work. They engage in sustained inquiry, exploring ideas and developing concepts to communicate a personal point of view. Students investigate a range of solutions using visual language and document the progressive resolution of thinking and working practices. Skills, techniques and processes are combined in the pursuit of new art forms, innovation and personal style

Artwork and Written tasks are Weighted 50/50

Artworks and visual diary/idea development = 25% each Semester, 50% in Total

Exam in Semester 1 = 15%

Exam in Semester 2 = 15%

Tips for the year 12 ATAR Art student

Are you wanting those top grades? There a number of things you can do - for some, the art course can feel daunting - watch out for these warning signs that you might not be on the path that you wish to be. If you are wanting to be a high-achieving student. Identify what is holding you back and change it.

Warning Sign 1: You find your art topic boring

Warning Sign 2: You forget to bring your things to class

Warning Sign 3: You can’t keep up with the pace

Warning Sign 4: You resent it when others are more ‘talented’ than you

Warning Sign 5: You avoid asking questions

Warning Sign 6: You resist modifying or changing your work

Warning Sign 7: You blame your teacher for not being experienced enough, skilful enough or passionate enough

Warning Sign 8: You think your teacher has a ‘thing’ against you

Warning Sign 9: You suffer from the ‘first idea is best’ syndrome

Would you like some hints on how to avoid these pitfalls? Pop to the following website:

http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/why-some-art-students-never-get-high-grades

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