Work Samples - Grade A
The work samples for this grade, together, assist teachers to gain a common understanding of the standard of work typically produced by students whose performance, on balance, matches the description for Grade A.
Activity: Portrait in Words - Collage Work (View Activity…)
Students make a 'non-traditional' portrait of themselves by tearing or cutting up their personal signs and symbols and rearranging and reconstructing these pieces onto a new background.
Work Samples: Courtney
Activity: History Revisited - Artmaking (View Activity…)
Students make a digital work based on a selected portrait or figurative artwork from the past and images of their world.
Work Samples: Riley
Activity: History Revisited - Critical and Historical studies (View Activity…)
Students use the postmodern frame to write an explanation of Zahalka's practice and the cultural frame to comment on how the role of women role is represented in the artwork, 'The Bathers' (1989).
Work Samples: Lou
Activity: Self-portrait with pet (View Activity…)
Students explore painting techniques and the conventions of portraiture to make a self-portrait with a pet.
Work Samples: Drew
Activity: Ceramic Heads (View Activity…)
Students explore a range of ceramic techniques with a focus on handbuilding and surface decoration to make a three-dimensional portrait in clay.
Activity: Still Life Relief Prints (View Activity…)
Students explore the conventions of the representation of still life and block printing techniques to make a two or three colour lino print.
Work Samples: Kerry, Dale, Nicky
Grade A
The student has an extensive knowledge and understanding of the content and can readily apply this knowledge. In addition, the student has achieved a very high level of competence in the processes and skills and can apply these skills to new situations.