Art Making and Exhibiting provides students with opportunities to recognise their potential and develop their skills as artists. It encourages self expression and creativity and can build confidence and a sense of individual identity. Students will explore, develop and refine their use of a range of materials, techniques and processes in a variety of art forms which may include drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture. They will investigate the ways in which artists use materials and techniques to develop their unique visual language and communicate ideas.
1.Organisation and time management
2. Independent inquiry based learning
3. Understanding of the characteristics and properties of materials, techniques and processes, in a variety of art forms, to develop visual language and communicate ideas
4. Use of art terminology to discuss, reflect on and evaluate their own artworks and the work of others
5. Strategies used to select and display artworks in an exhibition
In Unit 1, students are guided through a process to experiment with and investigate a range of materials and techniques to create visual language and expression in an artwork. They will also engage with artists and artworks to understand the different processes used to make artworks in specific art forms.
In Unit 2 students continue to explore how artworks are made by investigating the use of art elements, principles and aesthetic qualities and the ways in which they are used to communicate meanings and ideas. Students begin to explore how artworks are selected and exhibitions are planned and designed and investigate the roles associated with exhibitions.
Assessment:
Student's folio/practical work will be assessed throughout the semester. They will be expected to regularly present their Visual Art Journal with ongoing developmental work and written annotations/evaluations. In addition they will present fully refined and resolved artwork/s at the end of the semester.
Similarly, their theory component will be assessed throughout the semester and there will be a written exam at the end of term 3.
Animator, Artist, Art Conservator/Restorer/Critic/Historian Architect, Architectural Draughtsperson, Cartoonist, Costume Designer/Maker, Designer - Fashion/Graphic/Interior/Industrial, Gallery Curator/Director, Illustrator, Jeweler, Milliner, Photographer, Printmaker, Sculptor, Set Designer, Teacher, Textile Designer, Visual Merchandiser