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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Research printmaking ideas and techniques
   • Support professional practice by expanding knowledge of historical and contemporary printmaking
   • Research ways that other artists have used different printmaking techniques
   • Investigate how particular printmaking techniques work to achieve different technical effects
   • Evaluate the relationships between printmaking techniques and ideas
   • Adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches and comply with intellectual property requirements
2. Select printmaking techniques for refinement
   • Evaluate creative and professional opportunities offered by different printmaking techniques for own approach to work
   • Identify and assess limitations and constraints of particular techniques
   • Select a broad range of printmaking techniques for refinement
3. Consolidate printmaking technique to professional level
   • Develop increasing confidence and skill through practice and experimentation
   • Proactively identify and resolve technical problems in printmaking 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 prints that shows command of selected printmaking techniques
   • Handle equipment, tools and materials safely; minimise and safely dispose of waste throughout all processes
4. Evaluate own printmaking 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 printmaking techniques to inform own work practice

refine printmaking technique through a process of thorough experimentation and practice to create a coherent body of printmaking 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 print works

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

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

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

explain, for an extensive range of printmaking 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, for the elements and principles of design, the detailed characteristics, complex interrelationships, use in prints and how they may be challenged

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

explain key safety requirements for printmaking work.

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