To support the planning of your creative practice this term, you will complete a Visual Arts Practice Plan. You will do this by completing the Visual Arts Practice Plan Worksheets. These worksheets provide a structure to enable:

• Focused creative practice research.
• Refinement of your concept, approach and visual art project objectives.
• Development of your visual art practice design brief.
• Planning how you will achieve the visual art project.
   

This assessment supports your ability to: 

• Critically reflect on the nature of the relationships between your ideas, materials and production processes to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks (Learning Outcome 2).
   

NB: you will be required to provided suitable references to complete the Visual Art Practice Plan Worksheets.

1.    Depth of creative practice research. (20%)
2.    Depth of description of relationship between concept, techniques and production processes. (35%)
3.    Refinement and suitability of visual art project plan. (aesthetics/approach). (30%)
4.    Writing Standard and referencing (15%)

This assessment requires the preparation and delivery of a 10-minute presentation that you will make in front of your peers. The presentation will take the form of an artist’s talk. The presentation should be engaging and thoughtfully use technologies to introduce your contemporary visual art practice to a general, gallery-going audience. It will also be important to consider the structure of your presentation to suit this audience. Your presentation must describe how you have: a) used feedback from others, and b) critically reflected on the nature of the relationship between your ideas, materials and your production processes to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks. 
You may adopt any structure for your presentation; however, the following questions might assist you with identifying and structuring specific content in your presentation.

•    What might the audience find surprising or interesting about your practice? (For example: Do you have key steps in your creative process that you often rely upon and which others may find interesting?)
•    What is your artwork about? Can you explicitly and simply identify the key idea and or theories that your work responds to? (conceptual framework)
•    Why do you like using the media and processes that you commonly use?
•    What are the intangible or mysterious aspects of your practice that intrigue you?
•    Can you provide an insight into any happy accidents or critical moments that have proved to be critical to the development of your creative practice so far?
•    Do you have any humorous anecdotes relating to your process or exhibition history?
•    How has art history or personal memory been useful in providing a visual, intellectual or emotional cornerstone in your work.
•    Critically reflect on the nature of the relationship between your ideas, materials and your processes to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks. 
•    Who has inspired you or offered you valuable feedback to support your development as an artist? What has that feedback been?

This assessment supports your ability to: 

•    Seek and use feedback from others to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks (Learning Outcome 1).
•    Critically reflect on the nature of the relationships between your ideas, materials and production processes to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks (Learning Outcome 2).

1.    Structure of presentation (25%)

2.    Use of technology and visual aids (25%)

3.    Response to task requirements. (engaging for stated audience, suitable critical reflection and use of feedback to support communicative effectiveness of artwork) (25%)

4.    Use of language and writing standard (grammar, clarity, flow, word choice). (25%)

For this assessment you will complete a learning log (450-850 words). The learning log will document and critically reflect upon the production of a small, coherent body of professional artworks or one major work. The learning log will demonstrate how you have refined your approach and working procedure in order to establish an emerging professional practice. The learning log will also describe how you have created meaningful relationships between selected media, concepts and production processes. 

To complete assessment 2, you will be required to complete the Learning Log Worksheet template supplied for this assessment. 

 In the learning log you will record your:

• Work progress using digital photographs.
• Provide written critical reflections on ways to refine your techniques and processes to improve how your artworks communicate to an identified audience.
• Description of how you have assimilated the critical feedback of others.
• Workplace Health and Safety mitigation summaries.

The learning log support the assessment of the following Learning Outcomes:

• Seek and use feedback from others to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks.
• Critically reflect on the nature of the relationships between your ideas, materials and production processes to assess the communicative effectiveness of your artworks.

Please note: It is essential that you complete the learning log by using the Learning Log Worksheet template provided. Please observe the word count as it relates to each component of the Learning Log Worksheet template.

1. Depth of critical reflection on the refinement of techniques and processes. (30%)
2. Record of procedure adopted. (30%)
3.  Record of assimilation of opinions of others. (30%)
4. Record of workplace health and safety, tool maintenance, and storage. (10%)

For this assessment you will produce a small series of artworks or a single major visual art project. This creative work will refine how your selected media, processes and design concepts are successfully integrated by you to develop contemporary, visual artworks that are intended for an identified audience and respond to an identified conceptual framework.

This assessment supports your achievement of Learning Outcome 3.

• Create visual art objects and artefacts that have relevance and resonance within a range of contemporary visual art exhibition and display environments.

Please consider the assessment criteria prior to developing your visual artwork/s.

1.    Refinement of media, technique and process. (40%)
2.    Refinement of concept and its cultural relevance. (40%)
3.    Attendance at critique sessions and assimilation of the feedback of others. (20%)