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 5
- VA5-AMV-01
applies and evaluates Viewpoints to refine artistic intent and represent meaning in artworks
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
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
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
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