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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Develop conceptual thinking
   • Identify potential for individualised or specialised research based on current practice
   • Investigate new sources of ideas, trends and research opportunities
   • Evaluate own practice to evolve personal ideas with due consideration of intellectual property requirements
   • Use critical analysis to challenge assumptions, preconceptions and norms, and evolve ideas and innovative approaches for own work
   • Hone and adapt ideas for work and personal goals, based on emerging ideas and research
2. Seek professional opportunities and engagement
   • Pursue opportunities for professional work based on established goals and aspirations
   • Evaluate potential commercial opportunities as part of a viable professional practice
   • Engage with professionals within and outside the arts community to further develop own ideas, professional identity and opportunities for work
   • Establish sustainable ways to support ongoing professional engagement
3. Plan an independent creative project
   • Integrate individual research, personal ideas and professional realities to confirm the concept and strategy for a body of creative work
   • Develop and implement a plan incorporating objectives, resources, risk and contingency planning, budget and timelines, adjusting plan as necessary
   • Consider and integrate the promotion, exhibition and communication of the work in the planning process
4. Realise the body of creative work
   • Integrate command of technique, materials and process to create finished work of professional standard suitable for the public domain
   • Deepen individual engagement with techniques, ideas and the relationships between them
   • Apply critical and creative thinking to challenge, adapt and refine the creative work
   • Further evolve and refine ideas through processes of experimentation and exploration
   • Address the disparate challenges of the project, adapting the project approach as required to complete work on time and within budget
5. Evaluate professional work
   • Seek and apply constructive feedback from others to improve own work
   • Evaluate work against planned strategy for own creative practice
   • Evaluate own work and technical skills in the context of work by others to extend own practice
   • Adjust work processes and practice as necessary to improve technical, conceptual and commercial outcomes

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

undertake individualised research into area of own creative practice, incorporating:

in-depth focus on a particular idea, material, medium, process or technique

investigation of own work to identify related strengths and weaknesses

intensive consultation with more experienced peers

independently plan a safe and sustainable body of creative work from initial concept to realisation

independently coordinate a coherent body of professional creative work based on the body of research and development of own ideas, which effectively communicates the intended concept and is suitable for sale, promotion or use in the public domain

resolve conceptual and technical issues that arise within the work

evaluate own skills and work against planned professional practice strategy and in the context of work by others to extend own practice

engage in sustainable ways to support ongoing professional practice and development, including:

evaluating and discussing work with peers in a professional context

participating in related professional networks, associations or events.

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:

explain the relationship between ideas, technique, materials and process in the relevant art form

summarise the influences on chosen area of work, in historical and contemporary contexts

outline critical and creative thinking techniques and how they work in the context of creative practice

clarify commercial and professional opportunities for creative work in the context of own practice

outline project management methodologies suitable for creative work

summarise intellectual property considerations associated with artistic professional practice

outline sustainability issues associated with the tools and materials used in the chosen creative form

explain work health and safety procedures required in relation to the chosen creative form.

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