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7–10Visual Arts 7–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2027
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Content

Stage 5

Art making: Viewpoints
Structural
  • Investigate how to communicate meanings and apply ethical practices in art making using codes, symbols, signs and forms of visual and/or multisensory language

  • Evaluate how the choice of material, physical and symbolic aspects of artworks communicates meaning to audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make artworks using codes, symbols, signs and forms of visual and/or multisensory language to construct meanings and communicate intentions in artworks

Subjective
  • Investigate how to represent intentions and meanings in art making in personal, imaginative, intuitive and expressive ways

  • Evaluate how the choice of expressive material qualities and the physical or virtual properties of artworks can represent meaning to audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make artworks to represent ideas about the world inspired by personal or sensory experiences, imagination and memories, using ethical practices

Cultural
  • Investigate how to represent meanings and intentions in art making by using and adapting artistic, cultural and social conventions, traditions and protocols

  • Evaluate how the choice of images, stylistic conventions and forms in artworks represent cultural and social ideas, concerns or beliefs to audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make artworks to represent ideas that explore cultural and social values and meaning about the world, using ethical practices

Contemporary
  • Investigate how to represent meanings and intentions in art making by using strategies and approaches that challenge, critique and reimagine accepted ideas or assumptions

  • Evaluate how the choice of hybrid forms, texts, technologies, materials and contexts can represent or challenge meaning and engage audiences and apply this understanding to own art making

  • Make artworks to represent ideas about the world that appropriate, modify or reimagine images, art forms and conventions from a variety of sources and disciplines, using ethical practices

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