Unit 1: Creative Practice
In Unit 1, students use Experiential learning in Making and Responding to explore ideas using the Creative Practice. As the artist and audience, students consider their connection to artworks, and how their communication of ideas and presentation of artworks challenge, shape and influence viewer or audience perspectives. Students explore the practices of artists who have been inspired by ideas relating to personal identity.
Areas of Study:
● AOS 1: Artists, artworks and audiences
● AOS 2: The Creative Practice
● AOS 3: Documenting and reflecting on the Creative Practice
Unit 2: Creative Practice
In Unit 2 students use Inquiry learning to investigate the artistic and collaborative practices of artists. They use the Cultural Lens, and the other Interpretive Lenses as appropriate, to examine artworks from different periods of time and cultures, and to explore the different ways that artists interpret and communicate social and personal ideas in artworks
Areas of Study:
● AOS 1: Artists, artworks and audiences
● AOS 2: The Creative Practice
● AOS 3: Documenting and reflecting on the Creative Practice
Unit 3: Creative Practice
In Unit 3, students use Inquiry and Project-based learning as starting points to develop a Body of Work. They explore ideas and experiment with materials, techniques and processes using the Creative Practice. Students also investigate the issues that may arise from the artworks they view and discuss, or those evolving from the practice of the artist. Students apply the Interpretive Lenses to researched artworks and in their reflective analysis and evaluation of their use of the Creative Practice.
Areas of Study for both Unit 3 & 4
● AOS 1: Investigation and presentation
● AOS 2: Personal investigation using the Creative Practice
Unit 4: Creative Practice
In Unit 4, students continue to develop their art practice through Project-based and Inquiry learning as their research and exploration continues to support the development of their Body of Work. Throughout their research students study the practices of selected historical and contemporary artists to inform their own art practice. They use the Interpretive Lenses to analyse, compare and interpret the meanings and messages of artworks produced by the artists they study. Students also apply the Interpretive Lenses throughout the Creative Practice to resolve and refine their Body of Work.
Areas of Study for both Unit 3 & 4
● AOS 1: Documentation and critique of the Creative Practice
● AOS 2: Resolution and presentation of a Body of Work
● AOS 3: Comparison of artists, their practice and their artworks
Study Score Contribution
School Assessed Task 60%
Unit 4 Outcome 3 Assessment 10%
End of Year Exam 30%