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7–10Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2027
Expand for detailed implementation advice

Content

Stage 4

Art making: Artworld concepts
Artist
  • 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

Artwork
  • 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

World
  • 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

Audience
  • Recognise the role of audiences in relation to making artworks

  • Consider how audiences interact with artworks through exhibition and/or multisensory display

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