Examining an artist's practice

Examining the link between the artist’s world and their practice

Student visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 11 and 12 visual art students

This resource is designed to support Stage 6 visual arts students examining the link between the artist’s world and their practice.

Students will explore one of Lachlan Warner’s sculptural artworks and examine its relationship with his spirituality and practice. They will respond to questions about the relationship between the artist, his artwork and his world.

NSW Department of Education teachers may like to access additional resources, including scaffolds for the frames, conceptual framework and practice in artmaking, art history and art criticism that have been developed to assist students by the NSW Department of Education.

Your students will:

• watch the videos and record notes

• analyse the relationship between Lachlan Warner’s artworks, artmaking practice and his view of the world

• apply their understanding and express a point of view in short written responses

• refine written responses based on teacher feedback.

Visual Arts Stage 6 Syllabus

• H7: applies their understanding of practice in art criticism and art history.

• H8: applies their understanding of the relationships among the artist, artwork, world and audience.

• H9: demonstrates an understanding of how the frames provide for different orientations to critical and historical investigations of art.

Collection of student work

• Google Form: create a Google form with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create. Email this form to your students with the Creative Class link and all your student responses will be combined in a Google sheet.

• Google Classroom Assignment: create an assignment or a quiz in your Google Classroom with activities and/or questions. Students can also upload any files they create.

• MS Teams: create a quiz or assignment in your class team drive where students can submit responses and upload any files they create.

• Email: ask your students to email you any responses and files they create.

• Flipgrid: a website that allows teachers to create 'grids' to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is a message board where teachers can pose questions called 'topics'. Students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

• Jamboard: an interactive whiteboard which can be used for class feedback.

For further support on how to create these resources

• Get started with Google Forms

• Create a Google Classroom Assignment

• Assign quizzes to students through Microsoft Teams

• Create an assignment in Microsoft Teams

• Educators – getting started with Flipgrid

• Get started with Jamboard