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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Plan jewellery work through exploration
   • Explore ideas and techniques for own jewellery pieces in consultation with key people as required
   • Review historical and contemporary jewellery-making practice as a potential source of ideas
   • Clarify and confirm ideas for jewellery pieces based on exploration, discussion and consideration of intellectual property requirements
   • Assess capabilities of jewellery-making techniques through practice and systematic testing and adaption on samples, practice pieces or a work in progress
   • Select techniques that best support ideas for own work
2. Prepare, maintain and store jewellery-making resources
   • Calculate, select and organise type and quantity of jewellery-making equipment, tools and materials based on the needs of the chosen work
   • Prepare, maintain and dispose of equipment, tools and materials according to workplace safety and sustainability requirements
   • Clean and store equipment, tools and materials according to specific needs of different items
3. Create finished jewellery
   • Use and adapt combined jewellery-making techniques to create desired effects, considering and applying elements and principles of design
   • Review work in progress and make adjustments, as required, to produce final work
   • Handle equipment, tools and materials safely and minimise waste throughout all processes
   • Add value to current and future work process by documenting the work progress
   • Liaise with others to obtain and consider feedback on technical proficiency of work and success in communicating ideas

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

explore ideas, techniques and historical and contemporary jewellery-making practice and choose techniques to support own work

identify and acquire resources required to complete chosen work

adapt and use combined jewellery-making techniques to create a single major work or multiple pieces of jewellery that show technical proficiency in chosen techniques

review and document the work process.

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:

outline basic intellectual property considerations when producing jewellery work

outline methods of exploring techniques to achieve different effects in jewellery

summarise the main aspects of historical and contemporary jewellery-making practice and how they can inform own design ideas

describe, for the elements and principles of design, the key characteristics, key interrelationships and use in jewellery

summarise, for a range of tools and equipment used to produce jewellery, key physical features and uses, cleaning and maintenance techniques and storage requirements

describe the physical properties and capabilities of a range of materials and techniques used to produce jewellery

discuss typical work space requirements for producing jewellery including ways of organising space and equipment for efficient work operation

describe procedures for working safely with jewellery materials, tools and equipment.

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