Developing a Body of Work
Sustained artmaking: a question pursued across several works rather than a single exercise.
- Developing a sustained conceptual focus
- Series and variation
- Material investigation over time
NSW Visual Arts Stage 5 (Year 9) - developing a body of work; art, culture and context; critical analysis and judgement - expressed in Dux teaching language.
Dux tracks each dot point separately, so “I did Visual Arts - Year 9” becomes a list of specific things you can already do and specific things you have never been asked. Open a module for all of its dot points, written out.
Sustained artmaking: a question pursued across several works rather than a single exercise.
Art as cultural practice, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on its own terms.
Making defensible judgements about art, including about work that resists judgement.
A Visual Arts - Year 9 paper is not one question type repeated. Each command word asks for a different shape of answer, and each is worth a different number of marks.
| Command word | Question type | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| analyse | Short answer | 2–3 |
| design | Short answer | 3–5 |
| discuss | Extended response | 5–6 |
| explain | Short answer | 3–4 |
| identify | Multiple choice | 1 |
Year 9 Assessment Task Shape — 50 marks, 75 minutes. Practice papers in Dux are assembled to this shape rather than invented, so the timing is training too.
Diagnostic first, then questions written in the shape this course uses. Written answers come back marked against the bands, not just scored.