7–10Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus

Explore how to communicate meaning in art making using codes, symbols, signs and forms of visual and/or multisensory language

Recognise how material, physical and symbolic aspects of artworks communicate meaning to audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

Make artworks about the world using codes, symbols, signs and forms of visual and/or multisensory language to construct meaning in artworks

Explore how to represent meanings in personal, imaginative, intuitive and expressive ways in art making

Recognise how material qualities of artworks can represent meaning to audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

Make artworks about the world inspired by personal or sensory experiences, imagination and memories

Explore how to represent meaning in art making by using and adapting artistic, cultural and social conventions, traditions and protocols

Recognise how images, stylistic conventions and forms in artworks can represent social and cultural ideas or beliefs and apply this understanding to own art making

Make artworks that explore social and cultural perspectives about the world

Explore how to represent meaning in art making, using strategies and approaches that critique and reimagine accepted ideas or assumptions

Recognise how hybrid forms, texts, technologies, materials and contexts represent meaning to audiences or participants and apply this understanding to own art making

Make artworks that appropriate, modify, reimagine images, art forms and conventions from a variety of sources and disciplines