Visual Arts / Year 9 and 10 / Developing practices and skills

Curriculum content descriptions

experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to refine skills and develop personal expression (AC9AVA10D01)

Elaborations
  • experimenting with the material properties of a medium or form and investigating/exploring, in depth, the technical processes associated with that form in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of the ways that they can use it to represent their ideas in their own visual arts practice
  • interrogating multiple ways of approaching an activity; for example, using a diverse range of media to express different interpretations of the one topic, such as producing several sketches of the one object using different media with each one exploring a different emotion
  • investigating a diverse selection of artists through their sketchbooks to uncover their practices, and find connections between their processes and the development of their personal expression
  • developing an “inspiration” journal of collections from everyday life, such as photographs, found objects, experiments with media, thoughts and ideas, and using questions based on Viewpoints to interrogate their “inspiration” journal and begin identifying their own personal style; for example, "What am I drawn to, and why is this important to me?"
  • documenting and evaluating their investigations of visual art processes, visual conventions and materials in a diary, portfolio or digital journal; for example, annotating the processes used and using Viewpoints to develop questions to deepen their understanding of the concepts explored or processes used, such as "Have I pushed and explored this idea, medium or technique as far as I can?", "What is the problem, and how can I find multiple possible solutions?", "What happens when I …?”, “What did I learn from this …?”, “How can it inform my future art-making?"
  • drawing lines, shapes and arrows drawn over photocopies of artworks and using a code to demonstrate their understanding of the way the artist has composed the artwork to communicate meaning; for example, using lines to trace over an artwork to show composition techniques, such as rule of thirds, creating movement using diagonal and or curved lines, repetition and pattern, or the use of visual hierarchy to indicate how the viewer’s eye follows the layout of a designed product
General capabilities
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Personal and social capability Personal and Social capability
ScOT terms

Artistic purpose,  Composition (Visual arts),  Art materials,  Visual arts portfolios

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Legendary Textile Tales

This resource includes some teaching ideas based on a project facilitated by textiles artist Caitlin Bowe and students from two secondary schools. In this resource, teaching activities prompt exploration of the framework for Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. Students choose a story that aligns with the hero’s journey structure ...

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Landscape Painting

This teaching activity explores the ways that artists render foreground, middle ground, and background in a landscape painting. Students will then create a landscape painting using various techniques to portray illusions of depth and reflection.

Video

Image and Text: Creative Lesson Plans for Personal Storytelling

Students learn about how photographers work with images and text with a goal to inspire students to use text—whether captions or longer prose or poetic pieces—to enlarge upon the story in an image.

Interactive

Bird's eye art

A visual arts activity for students using aerial perspective and abstract forms.

Video

The power of science photography

Visual art and science are often considered to be separate fields. Watch as Phred Petersen talks about the way he combines his passions of photography and science. What is the role of technology in enabling this crossover? What kinds of scientific discoveries can be assisted by high-speed photography? And how can scientific ...

Interactive

Finding your frame

Developing a concept by making artworks from found objects. Explore how artist, James Powditch, assembles found objects to create artworks inspired by his love of film.

Interactive

Vivid Sydney – 77 Million Paintings

A series of video interviews with Nick Robertson about Brian Eno's '77 Million Paintings' installation, which was part of an exhibition in Vivid Sydney 2009. The resource includes clips of the installation.

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Australian collection

This database features a selection of Australian artworks from QAGOMA. The searchable database provides artwork images, background information about the artist and the artwork, classroom activities, a glossary of key terms and curriculum alignment information for teachers. Search results can be refined by theme, period, ...

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Indigenous Australian collection

This federated search from the QAGOMA database features a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks from the collection. The searchable database provides artwork images, background information about the artist and the artwork, a map of major Indigenous regions in Australia, classroom activities, a glossary ...