Visual Arts

Aligns with the Australian Curriculum and Senior Visual Art syllabus. Includes video interview with the artist. Explores the way a First Nations Australian artist celebrates and challenges perspectives of Australian identity. Supports students to produce their own creative work inspired by the practice of a contemporary Brisbane artist.

Visual Art: Years 7/8

1. Investigate ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are manipulated to represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AVA8E01)
2. Investigate the diversity of First Nations Australians’ artworks and arts practices, considering culturally responsive approaches to Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property rights (AC9AVA8E02)
3. Experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to develop skills (AC9AVA8D01)
4. Reflect on the ways that they and other artists respond to influences to inform choices they make in their own visual arts practice (AC9AVA8D02)
5. Generate, document and develop ideas for artworks (AC9AVA8C01)
6. Select and manipulate visual conventions, visual arts processes and/or materials to create artworks that represent ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9AVA8C02)
7. Investigate the ways that First Nations Australian artists celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through their artworks and visual arts practice (AC9AVA10E02)

Visual Art: Years 9/10

1. Conceptualise and develop representations of themes, concepts or subject matter to experiment with their developing personal style, reflecting on the styles of artists, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists (ACAVAM125)
2. Manipulate materials, techniques, technologies and processes to develop and represent their own artistic intentions (ACAVAM126)
3. Develop and refine techniques and processes to represent ideas and subject matter (ACAVAM127)
4. Plan and design artworks that represent artistic intention (ACAVAM128)
5. Evaluate how representations communicate artistic intentions in artworks they make and view to inform their future art making (ACAVAR130)
6. Analyse a range of visual artworks from contemporary and past times to explore differing viewpoints and enrich their visual art-making, starting with Australian artworks, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, and consider international artworks (ACAVAR131)
7. Investigate the ways that First Nations Australian artists celebrate and challenge multiple perspectives of Australian identity through their artworks and visual arts practice (AC9AVA10E02)

Visual Art and Visual Art in Practice Years 11/12

1. Aligns with the QLD senior Visual Art syllabus providing a model for Creative Inquiry
2. Includes case studies examining first Nation Artists and alternative perspectives
3. Applies the Reverse Chronology approach to investigate contemporary and historical arts practice, encouraging students to take the work of the contemporary artist as a starting point from which to explore the ideas, events, traditions and techniques that influence artists, styles and practices.
4. Supports students to produce their own creative work and compose an artist statement.