Head of Middle School Transformation @ WSS
KATRINA AXFORD
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 year 12 art planner  

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 folio (40%)
(20 pages for major practical 1 & 20 pages for major practical 2)

This page is dedicated to your 40 page Folio, 2 x Artworks and 2 x 500 word Practitioner Statements. Below are 3 really important links that YOU MUST look at and continue to refer to throughout the course. The first link is to the SACE website where examples of other students work is available for you to look at and critique. This link is extremely helpful because you can view what a C grade looks like compared to an A grade. The middle link is the Assessment Task Overview which you can download and print. It has EVERYTHING you need to know about the Folio and what you are being assessed on. The final link is to the SACE boards Visual Art page with all information about the Visual Art course.

examples

Link to SACE board examples
Click support materials when 
you get to the SACE page. Then you can download and view examples.

assessment task overview
​you must download and read this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Download Here
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Click logo for direct link to SACE Board website with all Stage Two Visual Arts-Art information.

​YOUR FOLIO MUST INCLUDE

1. EVIDENCE OF STARTING POINTS FOR VISUAL THINKING
The first part of your folio needs to be dedicated to idea generation. You need to ask yourself some questions...

What possible themes could I use for my major pieces? (15 TO 20 MINUTE GROUP TASK)
What am I passionate about and could represent in an artwork? (15 MINUTE INDIVIDUAL TASK + HOMEWORK)
What media and techniques am I good at / or would like to learn to use in my artworks? (15 MINUTE INDIVIDUAL TASK).

Provide evidence of this in your folio with mind maps, brainstorming lists and collections of source materials such as photographs, photocopied pages from books, articles from newspapers, magazines and/or the Internet, Internet downloads and screen shots of videos from sites such as You Tube.
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examples of starting points for visual thinking below

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Ask me  about this example of how the student used problem solving skills to make the artwork more creative and how that evidence was provided in her folio.

2. EVIDENCE OF YOUR 
CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING

DOCUMENTATION OF CREATIVE THINKING AND PROBLEM SOLVING NEEDS TO BE EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS OF CREATING YOUR MAJOR PRACTICAL PIECES. THIS IS WHERE YOUR FOLIO BECOMES A JOURNAL AND IT IS VITAL YOU DOCUMENT EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME OF WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY DOING IT. IT NEEDS TO BE FRESH IN YOUR MIND AND NOT LEFT UNTIL THE END WHEN YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ALL THE IMPORTANT SPECIFIC DETAILS.

3. EVIDENCE OF YOUR SOURCES OF INSPIRATION AND INFLUENCE

PROVIDING EVIDENCE OF INSPIRATION AND INFLUENCE CAN START WITH THE SACE ART SHOW AND VIEWING PREVIOUS MARK OLIPHANT COLLEGE STUDENT WORK HERE.


https://www.sace.sa.edu.au/news/events/sace-art-show#title#section8

 SOURCES OF INSPIRATION AND INFLUENCE need to INCLUDE:

ARTISTS
ARTWORKS
THEMES

SUBJECT MATTER
SKILL
METHODS
MEDIA
TECHNIQUES
STYLE

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YOU NEED TO DEDICATE PAGES THROUGHOUT YOUR FOLIO TO DOCUMENT AND ANALYSE OTHER ARTWORKS THAT YOU HAVE DISCOVERED AND USED AS INSPIRATION AND/OR INFLUENCE IN SOME ASPECT OF YOUR ARTWORK INCLUDING THEME, SUBJECT MATTER, TECHNIQUE, STYLE OR SKILL.

4. analysing and comparing works of art

This is where you need to ask yourself and document what artists have done to make their work successful. Analyse their works, compare artists find and document the connections and how they influence your work. This leads onto the what is below.

5. The development of alternative ideas and concepts

Creating an artwork is a journey and you will come up with alternative ideas and concepts all the time. It is ok to change direction and your mind as you go to make your work more creative and visually interesting. It is really important you document these ideas and the process you go through. If you don't do this the moderator won't know how much work you have actually done to create the final piece. YOU MUST DOCUMENT EVERYTHING YOU THINK OF AND DO! IT ALSO MUST BE DONE IN THE MOMENT! Students that leave this documenting and do it at the end are not as successful. This leads to the next thing which is....

6. The evaluation and review of ideas and progress and 7. annotated comment to clarify thinking

idea generation session

Trent Park and his idea of story telling through imagery
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/trent-parke-the-black-rose/AC1410H001S00#playing
Arthur Boyd's The Sister's
Click the link below to hear audio about the work
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=948
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  • Bizarre and grotesquely humorous in subject matter
  • Didn't know he was going to do a sculpture. He just wanted to express a feeling an idea
  • dominant features reminiscent of Pablo Picasso
  • seeks to express a moment of tenderness through 
  • an awkward embrace

John Brack's The Lift
Click the link below to hear audio about the work
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=1008
  • Carefully considered composition and choice of  subject matter which consists of mundane images 
  • Draws from the world around him
  • Universal themes that relate to the human condition
  • Reflect Awful reality of the Holocaust
  • Has power by exercising restraint 
  • Unnerving quality of the work 
  • The viewer is compelled to imagine the tragic fate and suffering by the Jewish people led to the gas chambers in Nazi Germany
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Grace Crowley's Miss Gwen Ridley portrait
Click the link below to hear audio about the work
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=1929
  • Cubism and modern french influences
  • Application of the modern principles she had learnt
  • Subject of the portrait is a representation of calm and strength of character
  • Clear influence of cubism and use of strong controlled colour 
  • Face reflective quality
  • Pose in the high arched chair is influenced by the artwork by a French neoclassical painter 
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Minimini Mamarika's The Malay prau
Click the link below to hear audio about the work
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=6767​
  • Bark Painting
  • Depicts a mecassan boat
  • Depicts a voyage and trade relations
  • Creation story
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Hans Heysen's Red Gold
Click the link below to hear audio about the work
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/detail.jsp?ecatKey=5292
  • Australian Gum Tree are the heroes of this work
  • Artistic Licence used
  • Thick brush strokes reflect the texture of the landscape
  • enduring vision of the Australian pastoral landscape
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For more artwork audio guides from Art gallery of South Australian click the link below 
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Collection/Collection_Audio_Tour.jsp

artworks DEPICTING identity


practical (ARTWORKS) 
TAKE PHOTOS OF YOUR MAKING PROCESS

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2014

2013 

2012

2011


practitioners statement

You must prepare two written practitioner’s statements for both of the two resolved practical works you have created.
A practitioner’s statement for your work must include:
·   a description of starting points and influences
·   an explanation of the intended meaning or message of the practical work 
·   an evaluation of your own practical work or works and connections with other practitioners’ work
·   the communication of beliefs, values, or a philosophy about a personal art aesthetic.

what is the moderator looking for in practitioners statements

  • Does your artworks have a personal connection? and/or is it imaginative?
  • Is it evident in your practitioner statement you have really engaged with the idea?
  • Have you got high technical ability? (more evident in actual artworks)
  • Have you really considered the aesthetic of you pieces?

  • Evidence of Conceptualisation
  • Have you written about how you formed your idea?
  • Have you made sophisticated, insightful, judgements on your own work and that of other practitioners?
  • Have you used visual art language to interpret and analyse art from different contexts, to form insightful conclusions?
  • Use Elements of Art and Principles of design to comment on ideas?
  • Have you written about the application and manipulation of the media you have used?

all examples below are all on sace website

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click here to download examples on SACE website
click here for a template you can use on google docs
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