Visual Arts / Year 9 and 10 / Presenting and performing

Curriculum content descriptions

evaluate art exhibits to inform the curation and exhibition of their own and/or others’ artworks and/or visual arts practice (AC9AVA10P01)

Elaborations
  • investigating ways in which artworks are displayed and how artists and curators work together to create a visual narrative that communicates broader ideas about an artist’s/group of artists’ intentions; for example, by creating a virtual or scale model of an exhibition of an artist they have researched in order to communicate their understanding of the artist’s intentions
  • selecting and presenting their own artworks for exhibitions in class, in the school or in the wider community
  • planning and curating exhibitions of their own work, community installations, projects or imagined exhibitions of artworks by other artists, considering, as appropriate, Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights
  • developing material to accompany exhibitions, such as didactic panels, artists’ or curatorial statements, branding, advertising or press statements
  • visiting and evaluating exhibitions of work in physical or virtual galleries, museums or in community sites in order to identify options for presenting their own exhibitions
  • developing responses to exhibitions of work; for example, in written/oral/multimedia explanations or reviews, digital forms of presentations or in verbal/vocal discussions
  • constructing explanations of how artists, designers, architects or craftspeople communicate ideas and meaning in artworks, written discussions, annotated images, debates or digital presentations; evaluating options/preferences and using similar approaches when creating their own work, and creating an artist statement or curatorial statement
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
ScOT terms

Art exhibitions,  Exhibits

Video

Creating art and meaning from waste

Welcome to Marina DeBris's exhibition, "Beach Couture: A Haute Mess". How would you describe Marina's art? What are the ideas she communicates through her artworks? How do the processes, materials and techniques Marina works with contribute to the creation of meaning in her art? Do you agree with Marina's belief that art ...

Interactive

e-Museum: app for Android

This Android application contains high-resolution images and descriptions of over 1,000 items from four Japanese museums: Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyusyu National Museum. The images are organised into twelve categories: Painting, Calligraphy, Sculpture, Architecture, Metalwork, ...

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The Mughal Court paintings

This is an enlargeable image of a Mughal Court painting (1560-1858) from a Bhagavata Purana showing a battle between Krishna and the fire-headed demon Mura. The Bhagavata Purana is a collection of Hindu devotional stories in Sanskrit, illustrating the stories of Krishna in human form. Accompanying the image is information ...

Text

Serious fun: a conversation with Yoshitomo Nara and Hideki Toyoshima

This is a video of an interview with the Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara and his long-term collaborator, the Osaka designer Hideki Toyoshima, about the 2010 exhibition 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's fool'. The interview is conducted by the exhibition curator, Miwako Tezuka, and is provided in two formats: a short 3-minute ...

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Yoshitomo Nara: nobody's fool

This is a website introducing the exhibition, 'Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's fool' (2010-11, USA) featuring artworks by the Japanese pop artist. Information about the exhibition is organised under three headings: Isolation, Rebellion and Music. Also included are images and information about Nara's installations (including a ...

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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 ...

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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, ...