Visual arts / Year 9 and 10

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Curriculum content descriptions

Develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter (ACAVAM127)

Elaborations
  • developing technical proficiency in the resolution of designed, fabricated and constructed artworks, using safe and sustainable practices
  • Considering viewpoints – histories: For example – How has the artist appropriated an artwork from another time?
  • using innovative thinking as they explore the capabilities of digital and virtual technologies to resolve design and planning problems
  • developing skills that can transfer to cross-media and inter-media domains of visual arts
General capabilities
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Art themes,  Mixed media,  Multimedia

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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.

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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 ...

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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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Your Public Art Project

What is public art? How can it transform our local environment? Primary and secondary students from across NSW worked with Kaldor Public Art Projects to reimagine public spaces within their local communities. This eResource explores the school’s work using innovative technology to bring site specific works alive through ...

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Introduced Species 360

Composer Katy Abbott, uses the true events of a cargo ship in 1992 spilling nearly 29,000 duck bath toys into the North Pacific Ocean as the catalyst for her work: Introduced Species. Six 360 cameras were embedded into the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's performance of Introduced Species to give the viewer a unique and immersive ...