Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop ideas for kiln cast glass
- Evaluate work opportunities offered by kiln casting glass
- Research ideas for kiln cast glasswork from other historical and contemporary references
- Research, adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Create designs for a range of kiln cast glass forms to meet professional practice needs
- Establish requirements for kiln cast glass
- Investigate safety issues for kiln cast glass
- Set up work space, materials, tools and equipment according to safety requirements
- Establish and follow safe work practices
- Plan firing schedules for different forms
- Investigate and test processes for kiln cast glasswork
- Monitor key safety issues during the production of work
- Kiln cast glass forms
- Determine suitable forming methods or combination of techniques
- Make kiln cast glass items to design requirements in relation to form and function
- Define the form using glassworking techniques
- Prepare articles for further surface treatment and finishing
- Use appropriate finishing techniques on kiln cast items
- Refine kiln cast glass techniques
- Show command of kiln cast glass techniques within a coherent body of glasswork
- Identify and resolve technical problems in kiln cast glass projects based on developing expertise
- Use ongoing experimentation with techniques to refine ideas
- Develop own ways of working with the kiln cast glass process to create individual style
- Evaluate own kiln cast glasswork