Studio Inspiration and Techniques

In this unit students focus on developing an individual understanding of the stages of studio practice and learn how to explore, develop, refine, resolve and present artworks. Students develop understanding of studio practices, exploring sources of inspiration and artistic influences, developing individual ideas and experimenting with a range of materials and techniques linking traditional and digital art forms, such as digital photography, digital painting, drawing and moving images. Students progressively refine and resolve their skills to communicate ideas in artworks.

Using a Visual diary, students document their studio practices.

Students also analyse and compare the ways in which artists from different times and cultures have developed their studio practice to interpret and express ideas, source inspiration and apply materials and techniques in artworks

OUTCOMES

1. Source ideas and inspiration and use a variety of methods to translate these into digital art forms.
2. Students should be able to produce at least one finished artwork and progressively record the development of their studio practice, conveying individual ideas through the exploration of ideas and techniques in the selected art form/s.
3. Discuss how artists from different times and locations have interpreted sources of inspiration and used materials and techniques in the production of artworks.

ASSESSMENT TASKS

• Visual Diary
• Final Artworks
• Comparative Tasks
• Examination

Studio Exploration and Concepts

In this unit students focus on establishing and using a studio practice to produce artworks. The studio practice includes the formulation and use of an individual approach to documenting sources of inspiration, and experimentation with selected materials and techniques linking traditional and digital art forms, such as digital photography, digital painting, drawing and moving images. Students explore and develop ideas and subject matter, create aesthetic qualities and record the development of the work in a visual diary as part of their studio practice.

Through the study of art movements and styles, students begin to understand the use of other artists’ work in the making of new artworks. Students also develop skills in the visual analysis of artworks. Artworks made by artists from different times and cultures are analysed to understand developments in studio practice. Using a range of art periods, movements or styles, students develop a broader knowledge about the history of art.

OUTCOMES

1. Develop a design process including visual research and inquiry in order to produce a variety of digital art design explorations and a number of artworks.
2. Analyse and discuss the ways in which artists from different times and locations have created aesthetic qualities in artworks, communicated ideas and developed styles.

ASSESSMENT TASKS

• Visual Diary
• Final Artworks
• Comparative Tasks
• Examination

Studio practices and processes

In this unit students focus on the implementation of an individual studio process leading to the production of a range of potential directions for resolved artworks. Students develop and use an exploration proposal to define an area of creative exploration. They plan and apply a studio process to explore and develop their individual ideas. For this study, the exploration proposal supports the student to identify a direction for their studio process. This process records trialling, experimenting, analysing and evaluating the extent to which art practices successfully communicate ideas presented in the exploration proposal. Students will select some of these potential directions from which to develop at least two artworks in Unit 4.

The study of artists and their work practices and processes may provide inspiration for students’ own approaches to art making. Students investigate and analyse the response of artists to a wide range of source material and examine their use of materials and techniques.

OUTCOMES

1. Prepare an exploration proposal that formulates the content and parameters of an individual studio process, including a plan of how the proposal will be undertaken
2. Progressively present an individual studio process recorded in written and visual form that produces a range of potential directions, and reflects the concepts and ideas documented in the exploration proposal and work plan.
3. Examine the practice of at least two artists, with reference to two artworks by each artist, referencing the different historical and cultural context of each artwork.

ASSESSMENT TASKS

• Written task analysis of artworks and appropriation
• Folio –exploration proposal, design process, potential directions.

In this unit students focus on the planning, production and evaluation required to develop, refine and present

Case study reportartworks that link cohesively according to the ideas resolved in Unit 3. Students present visual and written evaluation that explains why they selected a range of potential directions from Unit 3 to produce at least two finished artworks in Unit 4.

This unit also investigates aspects of artists’ involvement in the art industry, focusing on a least two different exhibitions that the student has visited during the year with reference to specific artworks in those exhibitions. Students investigate the methods and considerations of the artist and/or curator involved in the preparation, presentation and conservation of artworks displayed in exhibitions in at least two different galleries or exhibitions.

OUTCOMES

1. Present at least two finished artworks based on selected and evaluated potential directions developed through the studio process, which demonstrate refinement and application of materials and techniques, and that realise and communicate the students ideas expressed in the exploration proposal.
2. Provide visual and written documentation that identifies and evaluates the extent to which the artworks reflect the selected potential directions, and effectively demonstrates a cohesive relationship between the artworks.
3. Compare the methods used by artists and considerations of curators in the preparation, presentation, conservation and promotion of specific artworks in at least two different exhibitions.

ASSESSMENT TASKS

• A range of written tasks exploring art industry contexts
• Folio – reflection, evaluation, refinement of directions
• Art works – between two to five finished art works (or series of artworks)
• Case study report
• Beginning stages of a personal folio including a brief, research and generation of ideas.