Visual Arts

Course summary

The Visual Arts course encourages students to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries. It is a thought-provoking course in which students develop analytical skills in problem-solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art-makers. In addition to exploring and comparing visual arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students are expected to engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media. The following three core areas, which have been designed to fully interlink with the assessment tasks, are central to the course. Students are required to understand the relationship between these areas and how each area informs and impacts their work in visual arts. Visual Arts in Context involves exploring perspectives, theories and cultures that inform and influence visual arts practice. Visual Arts Methods addresses ways of making art work through the exploration and acquisition of skills, techniques and processes, and through engagement with a variety of media and methods. Communicating Visual Arts is about investigating, understanding and applying the processes involved in selecting work for exhibition and public display.