Finding your frame

Developing a concept by making artworks from found objects

Teacher visual arts resource developed by The Arts Unit

Years 9 and 10 visual arts

This resource is designed to support Stage 5 Visual arts students exploring artmaking practice and the conceptual framework.

Your students will:

• investigate how artist James Powditch assembles found objects to create artworks inspired by his love of film

• experiment with found object to express their own conceptual focus

• make a found object artwork

• share their artwork with an audience and reflect on their response.

This lesson can be adapted by teachers to explore the conceptual and postmodern frames as well as artmaking practice with Stage 5 and Year 11.

Teachers could undertake formative and/or summative assessment of the found object artwork made in this lesson. This lesson can be delivered remotely or in the classroom, depending on access to materials.

Visual Arts 7-10 Syllabus

• 5.2: makes artworks informed by their understanding of the function of and relationships between artist – artwork – world – audience.

• 5.3: makes artworks informed by an understanding of how the frames affect meaning.

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