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-AMV-01
uses Viewpoints to explore and develop artistic intent and represent meaning in artworks
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