What is established practice?

Established practice refers to works by artists that are recognised as belonging to a particular genre, style, convention, or way of working. The investigation of solutions found in established practice includes past and contemporary artworks.

In class we often refer to established practice with the terminology of artist models

Who is an artist model?

A practicing professional artist / painter who has been recognised by the art world and published. Work may have been in exhibitions and is in books/magazines.  They are published because of the quality of their artwork.

Artists who you find online (social media) are not considered established artists models unless you do further research and find out if they have exhibited and been published. 

Pinterest, TikTok and Instagram IS NOT your main source of inspiration

It is important that you have a range of artist models. You must make sure you have some artists that are well known an recognised with a combination of New Zealand, International, contemporary and traditional artist.

Why do we use artist models?

To learn from the success and failures of other artists’ work and for inspiration for your own work.​ 

In order to develop your art practice and skills, learners should explore different starting points and processes for making work.

You will utilise and incorporate their ideas / themes / techniques of artist models with your own work. Students are encouraged to investigate a range of approaches to painting through the study of artist models appropriate to their chosen subject matter and interests.

Established practice is a requirement of NCEA standards.

For each assessment you will be required to show your use of established practice and how you have applied it to your own work.