11 Visual Art

Course Overview

Term 1
Students will participate in a process of learning about different methods of creating marks and imagery in a range of both wet and dry media. This will include but is not limited to Photography, Printmaking, Stencils, Paint processes, pencil and mixed media. This term will run in two week blocks and require students to document their working process to be assessed on their thinking and critique of methods.

Term 2
Students will begin looking at the space in which they will exhibit their work, who their audience is and the media that they intend to use. In response to a chosen theme students will begin documenting this through a series of sketches and compositional plans. Selecting artist models from both NZ and a wider context will require students to show their influence on the generation of their own ideas.

Students will be assessed on their initial planning sketches and artist model analysis, both in written and visual form.

Term 3
Using their prior learning students will continue to investigate their chosen theme through the production of a body of work that develops their art making style and continues to test and explore art making conventions.
Students will choose their own media and will be encouraged to independently explore this. The assessment for this term is for students to have generated a body of work that shows their initial art making in theme selection, media studies and experimentation with methods and ideas.

Term 4
Students will learn about curating an exhibition and the decisions they will need to make in the lead up to the Showcase. A visit to the space will be involved and students will document this to best understand how to format and present their work. Using the work created in Term 3 students will continue to refine their ideas to create a body of work for submission from which their exhibition pieces will come from. Community engagement and how their work will be viewed and valued is important. Students will be assessed on both their portfolio of ideas as well as their resolved final exhibition piece.