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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Research glassworking ideas and techniques
  2. Select glassworking techniques for refinement
  3. Determine safety requirements for glassworking
  4. Consolidate glassworking technique to professional level
  5. Evaluate own glassworking technique

Knowledge Evidence

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

describe intellectual property requirements relevant to producing glassworks

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

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

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

explain, for an extensive range of glassworking 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 the elements and principles of design apply to glasswork, and how these elements and principles may be challenged

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

explain key safety requirements for glasswork.