Visual Arts - Stage 6

Visual Arts (Years 11 and 12)
Photography, Video and Digital Imaging - Content Endorsed Course
Screen and Media - Vocational Education and Training Board Endorsed Course

Visual Arts (Years 11 and 12)

Visual Arts involves students in art making, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a 'Body of Work' (BOW) in the HSC course. Students critically and historically investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times. The Preliminary course is broadly focused, while the HSC course provides for deeper and more complex investigations.

In Year 11, the students investigate the nature of practice in art making, art criticism and art history through different investigations, the role and function of artists, artworks, the world and audiences in the art world, develop their own informed points of view, meaning, focus and interest in their work.

They begin with an exploration of the traditions, procedures and conventions of the dominant Modern Art Movements of the Twentieth Century. Students work in a range of forms and investigate artist world and artwork relationships to make artworks responding to issues arising out of the development of the various Modern Styles. They progress onto a postmodern and cultural investigation of the development of the Post Modern Art Movement, focusing on installation art practices and the use of new technologies. Students make artworks that represent a point of view about cultural identity and the changing nature of the Artwork.

In Year 12, students further develop meaning and focus in their work by experimenting and exploring materials. They work towards a Body of Work (BOW) and use a Visual Arts Process Diary (VAPD) for the HSC course. They undertake deeper and more complex investigations of ideas in art criticism and art history through five specific Case Studies.

Year 12 ARTEXPRESS Nominations 2020

ARTEXPRESS is an annual exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in Visual Arts in NSW. It includes a broad range of approaches and expressive forms, including ceramics, collection of works, documented forms, drawing, graphic design, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and fibre, and time-based forms.

From 8616 students who submitted Bodies of Works for the 2020 HSC Visual Arts Examination, 575 students were nominated for ARTEXPRESS. Rose Bay Secondary College is proud to announce that three of our Year 12 students, Lehon Karube, Sam Wermut and Victoria Brenelli have been nominated. Their amazing works can be seen below.

For more information on ARTEXPRESS, please visit their website.

’Ikebana’

by Lehon Karube

’Proof of Life’

by Sam Wermut

’Instabilite’

by Victoria Brenelli

Year 11 Visual Arts Term 1 2020

In Semester 1, Year 11 commenced the Stage 6 Visual Arts course exploring the conventions of art making during the modernist era. They developed a collection of works inspired by artists of the 20th century from Impressionists to Pop Artists, which informed their own original 2D artworks.

Photography, Video and Digital Imaging

Photography, Video and Digital Imaging offers students the opportunity to explore contemporary artistic practices that make use of Photography and Digital Imaging. These fields of artistic practice resonate within students’ experience and understanding of the world and are highly relevant to contemporary ways of interpreting the world. The course offers opportunities for investigation of one or more of these fields and develops students’ understanding and skills, which contribute to an informed critical practice. The course is designed to enable students to gain an increasing accomplishment and independence in their representation of ideas in the fields of photography and/or digital imaging. Students will learn to understand and value how these fields of practice invite different interpretations and explanations.

Students will develop knowledge, skills and understanding through the making of photographs and/or digital images that lead to and demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment. They will also develop knowledge; skills and understanding that lead to increasingly accomplished critical and historical investigations of photography and/or digital imaging.

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Screen and Media

This course is developed from the Screen and Media Training Package. It is a 2 Unit Course over two years. This is a Vocational Education and Training Board Endorsed Course. There is NO external HSC exam.

There are currently 11 Competencies (subjects) being offered:

Work effectively in the creative arts industry
Contribute to health and safety of self and others
Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills
Create 2D digital animations
Perform basic sound editing
Prepare video assets
Shoot material for screen productions
Develop drawing skills to communicate ideas
Perform basic vision and sound editing
Write simple stories
Plan and prepare programs content

This qualification prepares students for the role of a skilled operator in the Film, Television, Radio or Digital Media industries and the specific areas covered are: