Length: Semester or Full Year

Recommended background: Successful completion of Year 8 Visual Art

Content:

This course aims to provide Year 9’s with a wide range of experiences and exposure to Visual Art, individually and collaboratively, whilst expanding on the knowledge and skills learnt in Year 8. It develops lateral thinking, presentation and research skills and encourages confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment while building on a personal aesthetic of the student’s own and other artists’ works.

The course will encompass traditional and digital approaches to art making and extend students’ understanding of safe and sustainable visual arts practices. Practical works will be developed from a range of the following mediums:

• Painting (watercolour and acrylic)
• Drawing (charcoal, pastels, pencil)
• Printmaking (relief, screen-printing)
• Sculpture (assemblage, construction)
• Photography
• Digital

Students explore different forms of traditional and contemporary art and identify and explain, using visual language, how artists and audiences interpret artworks from a range of cultures and times, including the influences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Through workshops, discussions and visits, students develop an appreciation of the role of Art in the Community and learn about art related tertiary and career options. They will build an awareness of the contribution of visual arts practitioners, as they make and respond to visual artworks and constructively criticise and self-evaluate their own progress. Students will have the opportunity to exhibit their artworks within the school and local community.

Students will develop critical and creative thinking and visual arts language to identify and develop informed opinions about artworks based on their research of current and past artists including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Students will exhibit their artworks within the school and local community.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Achievement Standards as outlined in the framework of the Australian Curriculum. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes. This includes assessment of achievement in both making and responding.