Visual Arts

Number of Units: 2 

Consumables: $100  per annum 

Description: 

Visual Arts engages students in the practices of artmaking, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a Body of Work for the HSC. This reflects students’ knowledge and understanding about artmaking practice and demonstrates their ability to produce a conceptually strong artwork. Students critically investigate artworks, critical and historical interpretations of artworks and artists from across cultures, traditions and times. The Preliminary Course provides a broad scope of artmaking and focused artist study opportunities, while the HSC Course provides for deeper, increasingly more independent investigations.  

Course requirements: 

• Course must be studied with: Nil 

• Course cannot be studied with: Nil 

• Major work(s): Students will be required to submit a major work in Year 11 and Year 12. 

• Other course requirement(s): This course requires students to create artworks, investigate artist case studies and write short answer and essay responses. 

• Course fee will cover:  Course content and artmaking in learning sessions, but do not cover the Body of Work materials for their final Year 12 submission. 

• Additional resourcing requirements for the course: Materials specific to Major Work. 

Link to course webpage: Visual Arts - See for further information on assessment and course requirements.

Contact: Ms Rachelle Harte – Head Teacher Creative and Performing Arts/Languages.