Ceramics

Content Endorsed Course – 2 Unit

Exclusions:  Products developed cannot be used as a major design project in Design and Technology or a body of work in Visual Arts

Course Description:

Ceramics is the art and technology of forming, firing and glazing clay to make a wide variety of products, ranging from building materials to ceramic ware such as plates, bowls and drinking vessels, jewellery, sculpture and decorative wall surfaces.

This course enables students to develop an understanding of ceramic processes and practices, and how these can be used in making a range of products. Students develop a critical appreciation of the aesthetic, expressive, and utilitarian qualities of ceramic forms in contemporary and past societies, and knowledge of the diverse applications of ceramics in contemporary society and ways of valuing the skills involved in making well-crafted forms.

This course enables students to:

• Gain an increasing accomplishment and independence in their representation of ideas in ceramics and understand and value how ceramics, as a field of practice, invites different interpretations and explanations.

• make ceramic works that lead to and demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment.

• lead to increasingly accomplished critical and historical investigations of ceramics.

What students can learn-

• Hand building

• Throwing

• Sculptural Forms

• Kilns

• Glaze Technology

• Casting

• Surface Treatment

• Mixed Media

School Fees: Preliminary Course $90 HSC Course $90