List of Units 

Creativity in Visual Arts 

Students learn about the creative process in Visual Arts by critically and creatively analysing artworks, experimenting with creative processes, and developing technical proficiency to express their ideas through various conventions and forms. They understand that creativity in the visual arts involves transforming materials to convey ideas. Students apply their emerging creative process, techniques, and strategies to express their understanding of self and the world.

Communicating Meaning in Visual Arts 

Students develop visual literacy by learning about how meaning and concepts are constructed and communicated in a variety of artworks. They analyse the forms, conventions, vocabulary, and symbols used by artists to construct meaning and express their ideas. Students explore techniques for communicating their ideas to an audience and develop skills as audience and artist. Students apply techniques to communicate their understanding of a range of issues through artworks. They express concepts, ideas and meaning through visual communication. 

Visual Arts in Context 

Students learn about how artists, over time and place, have represented their concepts and ideas. They explore how artists, curators, and critics throughout the world and history have expressed their understanding of self, place, and issues. Students apply their technical knowledge, empathy, ethics, and principles of intercultural understanding to creating artworks. 

Narratives in Visual Arts 

Students learn about the artist as a storyteller. They explore representational and nonrepresentational artworks and how these shape narratives. Through analysis of narratives in artworks, students gain insights into how perspectives on the world are presented and how this affects the reception of, and responses to, artworks and artists. Students apply their theoretical and technical skills to create representational and nonrepresentational artworks that convey narratives and responses to narratives. 

Independent Study 

An Independent Study unit has an important place in senior secondary courses. It is a valuable pedagogical approach that empowers students to make decisions about their own individual learning. An Independent Study unit must be proposed by an individual student, be for their own independent study, and negotiated with their teacher. An Independent Study unit requires the principal’s written approval. The program of learning for an Independent Study unit must meet the unit goals and content descriptions as they appear in the course. Students must have studied at least three standard 1.0 units from this course 

Innovation in Visual Arts 

Students learn about innovative art practice and practitioners who break with codes and conventions. They explore their capacity to encompass innovations in technique, form, style, creation, digital platforms, and criticism through experimentation and problem-solving. Students apply their knowledge, understanding and skills to expand their arts practice and engage in ethical and aesthetic issues as artists and citizens. 

Curation and Exhibition 

Students learn about stylistic and curatorial choices and how these position audiences to interpret artworks and convey attitudes, values, and perspectives. They explore the representation of ideas in art, as artists and curators, by developing an informed response to artworks and exhibitions they have seen and experienced. Students apply technical and curatorial skills to create their own works and exhibitions. 

Entrepreneurship in Visual Arts 

Students learn about entrepreneurship and the interface between art and industry. They explore the tension between creative and commercial considerations. Students apply their understanding of entrepreneurship in the art industry to produce authentic artworks for a range of purposes and audiences. 

Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Visual Arts 

Interdisciplinary inquiry is an approach to studying and addressing complex problems by exploring new perspectives and advancing critical thinking. Students develop skills in synthesising viewpoints, drawing conclusions, and exploring alternative applications of art practice. Students learn how Visual Art can be used to explore and communicate concepts from other disciplines. They explore techniques for understanding, representing knowledge and concepts from other disciplines. Students use Visual Art to know the world and share their insights.