The body of work: concept development, experimentation, documentation, refinement and resolution. Assessed through the submitted work and process diary.
These are the statements the Visual Arts syllabus makes about Artmaking Practice. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Finding a concept worth sustaining across a body of work, and distinguishing a theme from an intention.
Deliberate experimentation with material and process, and recording what each attempt established rather than only what it looked like.
Using the diary to show decisions and their reasons, which is what distinguishes it from a scrapbook.
Researching other artists to solve a specific problem in your own work rather than to decorate the diary.
Editing a work to completion, including knowing which element to remove, and recognising when a work is finished.
Drawing as thinking rather than as rendering: notation, planning and the exploratory mark.
How a material's properties constrain and enable meaning, and why technique is an expressive decision.
Works made for a particular place, where the space is part of the meaning rather than a container for it.
Video, sound, performance documentation and digital practice, and the different questions they raise about originality and the object.
HSC Visual Arts - Written Paper Shape is 50 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Artmaking Practice are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Visual Arts uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Artmaking Practice opens the Visual Arts course. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Visual Arts dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.