Elements and Performance Criteria
- Acquire and develop technical skills.
- Plan strategies to ensure the development of appropriate technical skills in art practice.
- Plan and use art making opportunities to develop and assess the development of technical skills.
- Identify and use practice, feedback, discussion and evaluation opportunities to continuously improve technical skills.
- Test the capabilities of materials, tools and equipment to develop technical skills.
- Identify and use relevant journals, magazines, catalogues and other media to stimulate technical and professional development.
- Develop conceptual skills and ideas.
- Discuss ideas with others and apply knowledge gained to inform own practice.
- Use work practice to gain experience in a range of genres and interpretations.
- Study the work of others to stimulate conceptual and technical skills development.
- Identify and use a range of opportunities to develop own practice and keep informed about current art practice.
- Develop own voice.
- Evaluate own work.
- Seek and apply constructive criticism from others to improve own work.
- Evaluate own work against planned strategy for own art practice.
- Evaluate own work in the context of work by others in order to extend own practice.
- Adjust work processes and practice as necessary to improve technical, conceptual and commercial outcomes.
- Research work opportunities.