7–10Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus (2024)
The new Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus (2003).
2025 and 2026 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Stage 4
- VA4-AMC-01
makes artworks to represent ideas that explore Artworld concepts and their relationships
Adopt the role of the artist to make artworks
Explore how artists represent ideas and interests in their art making
Identify how artists use materials and approaches to represent ideas, and apply to own art making
Recognise how artworks function as forms of representation in the artworld
Make and refine artworks to represent meaning, using selected materials, techniques, skills and approaches in 2D, 3D and/or 4D art forms, including drawing
Explore the ways artworks represent subject matter and ideas to audiences in art making
Explore the world as a source of ideas and subject matter to represent meaning in artworks
Select subject matter and ideas to explore personal, symbolic, cultural or critical ideas when making artworks
Recognise the role of audiences in relation to making artworks
Consider how audiences interact with artworks through exhibition and/or multisensory display