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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Research ceramic ideas and techniques
   • Support professional practice by expanding knowledge of historical and contemporary ceramic work
   • Research ways that other artists have used different ceramic techniques
   • Investigate how particular ceramic techniques work to achieve different technical effects
   • Evaluate the relationships between ceramic techniques and ideas
   • Adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches and comply with intellectual property requirements
2. Evaluate and select ceramic techniques for refinement
   • Evaluate creative and professional opportunities offered by different ceramic techniques for own approach to work
   • Identify and assess limitations and constraints of particular techniques
   • Select a broad range of ceramic techniques for refinement
3. Determine safety requirements for ceramic work
   • Investigate safety issues associated with ceramic work
   • Set up work space, equipment, tools and materials according to safety requirements
   • Establish and follow safe work practices
   • Monitor key safety issues during production of the work
4. Consolidate ceramic techniques to professional level
   • Develop increasing confidence and skill through practice and experimentation
   • Proactively identify and resolve technical problems in ceramic projects based on developing expertise
   • Challenge and test ideas and use creative thinking techniques to encourage new and unpredictable ideas to emerge
   • Evolve ideas and other professional skills through ongoing experimentation with technique
   • Develop own ways of working with techniques to create individual style
   • Create a coherent body of ceramic work that shows command of selected ceramic techniques
5. Evaluate own ceramic technique
   • Evaluate development of own technique with others and seek feedback
   • Seek and participate in professional discussions that challenge and explore different concepts and approaches
   • Evaluate particular ways that experimentation with different techniques has informed own artwork
   • Identify ways to further develop technique as part of professional practice and build ideas into future work

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

research an extensive range of ceramic techniques to inform own work practice

refine ceramics technique through a process of thorough experimentation and practice to create a coherent body of ceramic work which:

shows a command of chosen techniques

demonstrates the development of an individual style

supports own ideas for work.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

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Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

describe copyright, trademarks, design licences and permissions relevant to producing ceramic works

identify an extensive range of information sources that support research in ceramics practice

summarise, for historical and contemporary ceramics, the main cultural, sociological, philosophical, aesthetic, political and commercial influences

explain, for own work practice and that of other artists, the relationship between ceramics technique and particular effects and design ideas

explain, for an extensive range of ceramic techniques, how they work to achieve effects and their limitations and constraints in achieving effects

describe a range of creative thinking techniques and how they can be used to encourage new ideas

describe how elements and principles of design can be applied to ceramic work, and how design principles may be challenged

discuss formal and informal professional development opportunities for professional arts practitioners working with ceramics

explain key safety requirements for ceramic work.

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