Scholarship 2025 is an OPT OUT system. All students will develop work toward scholarship through general classwork programs. Early term 3, Students can discuss with their teacher about opting out of scholarship [final date Aug 23]
Scholarship workbook specifications
A Scholarship workbook must accompany all Visual Arts Scholarship entries.
The workbook and the submitted portfolio must be prepared together, in parallel, in the same year.
Workbook material must be submitted in an A3 clearfile folder and is limited to 8 single-sided A3 pages.
Workbook material may be displayed in landscape orientation.
The workbook must start with a title page that references the portfolio as a whole. The title page is for the marker's reference and will NOT count in the candidate’s allocated 8 pages.
For a portfolio board submission, the title page should provide a series of photographs of the three panels, in the order in which they are presented.
For a moving image submission, the title page should include a series of screenshots of up to a maximum of 12 frames in the order in which they appear in the moving image submission.
Page One: Your Proposal
What is your initial idea? How does this relate to your life and interests? Why do you want to explore this? Where did this idea come from? What is the potential of this idea? What are some other ideas you thought about?
Page Two: influences and artist models
How has your idea been explored already in art and society? Who are some of the key people who have already worked in this area? What are some things you looked at to refine/define your proposal?
Page Three to Seven: Key Ideas, Series, Briefs or Individual Works
Describe the key turning points in your work? What are the main points of your work? This section could outline key themes or key works or you might discuss your board as it happened. Describe how the works or ideas relate to your overall theme and how they relate to other ideas or works.
Page Eight: What next?
If you could continue making work what would you do? What are some potential things you could explore? If you had no limitations of time or money how else could you extend your theme? Who are some other influences that could feed into your work?
New Zealand Scholarship
Visual Arts Performance Standard
Outcome Description
The student will use knowledge of design, painting, photography, printmaking, or sculpture to produce an original body of work.
Scholarship Performance Descriptor
The student will demonstrate aspects of high level:
analysis and critical thinking
integration, synthesis, and application of highly developed knowledge, skills, and understanding to complex situations
logical development, precision and clarity of ideas.
Outstanding Performance Descriptor
In addition to the requirements for Scholarship, the student will also demonstrate, in a sustained manner, aspects of:
perception and insight
sophisticated integration and abstraction
independent reflection and extrapolation
convincing communication.