Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop ideas for glazing ceramic items
- Evaluate potential for new and original approaches to own glazed ceramic work, including use of original glazes
- Research glazing ideas from historical and contemporary references
- Research, adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches from other practitioners and comply with intellectual property requirements
- Refine and confirm ideas through research, experimentation and testing
- Modify and test existing glaze recipes
- Investigate and respond to specific safety and sustainability issues for glaze work
- Modify and test existing glaze recipes on various clay bodies and in various kiln firing conditions
- Achieve different effects through exploration and experimentation with a broad range of advanced glazing techniques, equipment and tools
- Label and store glazes safely
- Formulate original glaze recipes
- Analyse glaze science and chemistry to inform ideas for original glaze recipes
- Research how raw ingredients and formulas achieve different effects
- Formulate own glaze recipes that aim to achieve predictable fired results
- Test original glazes on various clay bodies and in various kiln firing conditions, and record data
- Create a body of glazed work
- Select and use recipes and glaze application techniques according to required effect and modify application as required
- Decorate surfaces with glaze using techniques and tools selected from own experimentation
- Evaluate and respond to potential for changes in application methods
- Fire the glazed form at the appropriate temperature and kiln atmosphere
- Modify glazes to correct faults and technical problems
- Maintain accurate records and data for glazing and firing processes
- Evaluate glaze work
- Evaluate glaze work from an aesthetic and functional perspective
- Evaluate development of own technique for glazed ceramic work with others and seek feedback
- Evaluate particular ways that experimentation with different techniques has informed own artwork
- Identify ways to further develop glazing techniques as part of professional ceramics practice and build ideas into future work