Art : Creative Practice Unit 2

Outcome 2: Documentation of collaboration using the Creative Practice

In this area of study students build on their knowledge and skills, and continue to document their art practice. They develop and evaluate their use of visual language. Students explore and reflect upon the relationship between the artist, artwork and viewer or audience by researching the practices of artists and the context and presentation of artworks. They respond to artworks, and the collaborative practices of artists, to make and present their own artworks. This might involve working with other students to create a collective artwork, working with practicing artists and outside specialists, or creating artworks that involve or collaborate with the audience through interaction and participation.

Before finishing their artwork, students present a critique of their use of the Creative Practice. They respond to the feedback they receive from the critique to resolve their artwork. The critique can be presented by an individual student or a group of students who have collaborated to make the artwork. The Support materials provides examples of different approaches to overseeing the student’s critique of their use of the Creative Practice.

Students also use the Cultural Lens, and the other Interpretive Lenses as appropriate, to document and annotate their use of the Creative Practice. They document their visual responses to artworks and any feedback they receive from their critique. They reflect on their own art practice, identifying and discussing how they have used the Creative Practice and developed their visual language. Students reflect upon and evaluate the use of collaboration in their art making and discuss how cultural ideas and issues are communicated in their artworks.

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On completion of this unit the student should be able to critically reflect on, evaluate and document their use of the Creative Practice to develop and make collaborative visual responses.

To achieve this outcome the student will draw on key knowledge and key skills outlined in Area of Study 3.

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Key knowledge

·            the use of the Creative Practice to develop and make visual responses that communicate personal ideas related to social and cultural contexts

·            collaboration using the Creative Practice

·            the use of the Cultural Lens, and the other Interpretive Lenses as appropriate, to support reflective annotations

·            methods used to document and evaluate the use of the Creative Practice

·            ways to effectively communicate cultural and social meaning in artworks

·            methods used to critique the use of the Creative Practice

·            ways to reflect on and use feedback from a critique to refine and resolve artworks

·            art terminology used in a critique and in documentation of the use of the Creative Practice

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Key skills

·            critically reflect on the use of the Creative Practice to develop and make visual responses that communicate personal ideas related to social and cultural contexts

·            identify, document and reflect on collaboration using the Creative Practice

·            apply the Cultural Lens, and the other Interpretive Lenses as appropriate, to support reflective annotations

·            evaluate the use of the Creative Practice using visual and written documentation

·            explore ideas related to social and cultural contexts through the use of the Creative Practice

·            document and evaluate the use of the Creative Practice to develop and make visual responses

·            document and evaluate how visual responses effectively communicate social and cultural meaning

·            present a critique of the use of the Creative Practice

·            reflect on and use feedback from a critique to resolve artworks

·            use art terminology to document, annotate and present a critique of the use of the Creative Practice

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Outcome 3

Critically reflect on, evaluate and document their use of the Creative Practice to develop and make collaborative visual responses.

Areas of Study 2 and 3 are concurrent as the critique and Documentation support the Creative Practice and the production of the Body of Work.

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READ:

Ch 5.1 of the Textbook

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Inquiry learning activities

• The inquiry for Area of Study 3 should expand from the research that students conduct in Area of Study 2. Students link the documentation of their practice to their research of artists, focusing on how artists document, evaluate, reflect upon and critique their practice. The guided questions for the inquiry encourage students to think about collaborative practice.

• They could consider the similarities between their own practice and the artists and artworks that they have used for inspiration. Students could use the relationship of the artist, artwork, viewer and context as a starting point for their documentation. They could document these relationships and link it to their use of the collaborative practice.

• Students can unpack the components of the Creative Practice and reflect upon and evaluate how they used these processes in their practice. They should consider how the Creative Practice was used in collaborative art making.

• Students can read through the questions of the Cultural, Structural and Personal lenses to determine their process of annotation. They unpack how to annotate their art practice in contrast to documentation. They consider examples of annotation by other artists to develop their own methodology.

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