Faculty of Arts, Northern Beaches Secondary College, Balgowlah Boys Campus

Authentic and Innovative Creative Arts and Languages Education

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Year10_Visual Arts



Term 1 Term 2 Term 4 Term 4
Unit Title

My Everyday Life - how might
we depict our everyday life in
relief printing using influences
of the Pop Art style and
Hokusais Great Wave?
Gradient Architect in Residence
Program. How might an architect
in residence program help us to
critically consider the
architectural spaces that we
inhabit, thereby allowing us
to bring colour and vitality into
these institutions?
Soapstone How might we depict
the human form in a reduced and
simplified manner in soapstone
sculpture?

Memory and Erasure How
might we capture impressions
of events and moments in time
in the charcoal animations that
we make about a personal
memory?
Description A cultural and postmodern
investigation of relief printing
to make artworks about the
students own everyday life
and social identity. Using the
Pop Art style, students will
make a three colour relief
print to communicate aspects
of their own social
environment, including
aspects of Australian urban or
beach culture. In art historical
and critical studies, students
investigate a range of artists
who communicate ideas about
the world - consumer and
popular culture, Australian
urban and beach culture.
Gradient is a project that has
come from the award of a VADEA
grant in 2013. The project
involves an established and
award winning architect working
with students in Stage 5, Year 10
to produce a site-responsive
architectural installation within
the school grounds. The project
will give the students some
understanding of how a series of
processes are integrated in
architectural projects. In this
project the colour sequence that
the art students produce will only
be given full effect, washing
across the ceiling into a gradient
of colour, through the refinement
An investigation of the
representation of the body in
modernist art practice from the
point of view of the Structural
and subjective frames. Students
explore some conventions and
traditions of sculpture, in
particular the carved form.
Drawing is used to simplify and
reduce the human form to simple
forms.
In historical and critical studies
students investigate the changing
visual language of modern
sculptures.
A subjective frame exploration
of charcoal and stop-
frame/filmic conventions. In
artmaking, students create a
series of charcoal drawings
representing a memory from
their past. Students will
illustrate their memory using
charcoal and will document the
development of their drawings
frame-by-frame using a digital
camera. A digital stop-frame
animation will be made from
the sequenced drawings. In art
historical and critical studies the
focus will be on the practice of
William Kentridge. The focus on
this artist will allow students to

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Hokusais Great Wave is the
beginning point of this unit of
work, students being required
to appropriate this work as
part of their relief print.
of the reflecting panels by the
D&T students. It's the same way
architects rely upon builders,
fabricators and consultants in
practice.
gain an understanding of how a
case study is approached in
Stage 6, Year 12.
Outcomes

5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7,
5.8, 5.9, 5.10
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8,
5.9, 5.10
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8,
5.9, 5.10
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7,
5.8, 5.9, 5.10
Forms

2D Relief Printmaking. 3D Architectural Installation 3D Soapstone sculpture 4D Timebased stop-frame
animation
Frames

Cultural and postmodern Cultural and Postmodern Subjective and structural Subjective
Conceptual
Framework
Artist-Artwork-World Artist-World-Audience Artwork-world-audience Artist-artwork
Practice
Artmaking







Using the Pop Art style,
students will make a three
colour relief print to
communicate aspects of their
own social environment,
including aspects of Australian
urban or beach culture.
Hokusais Great Wave is the
beginning point of this unit of
work, students being required
to appropriate this work as
part of their relief print.
In artmaking, students will
respond to the architecture of
the campus at Balgowlah Boys
which is within the brutalist style.
The large, roughly formed
concrete walls, minimum
openings and a general absence
of ornament creates a canvas to
consider the evolving approaches
to architecture. The project
'Gradient', involves a temporary
installation within the buildings of
Balgowlah Boys. It is focused on
the mid level corridor that
surrounds the atriums in both A
block and G block, and the upper
Students explore some
conventions and traditions of
sculpture, in particular the carved
form. Drawing is used to simplify
and reduce the human form to
simple forms. Students then
carve their designs into the
soapstone, as well as polish the
stone using wet and dry
sandpaper and baby oil.

A subjective frame exploration
of charcoal and stop-
frame/filmic conventions. In
artmaking, students create a
series of charcoal drawings
representing a memory from
their past. Students will
illustrate their memory using
charcoal and will document the
development of their drawings
frame-by-frame using a digital
camera. A digital stop-frame
animation will be made from
the sequenced drawings.

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level corridor that bridges
between the two buildings. The
28 linear fluoro light fittings
mounted to the concrete soffits
of these spaces will be fitted with
a suspended panel, designed and
fabricated by the D&T students.
These panels will bounce light
onto the concrete ceiling, with a
colour gradient developed by the
Visual Arts students. The gradient
scheme will be developed
through colour shaded plans and
photomontages, using photoshop
software. Once the final gradient
scheme is selected, through the
consensus of all students, the
Visual Art students will
participate in the process of
mixing the colours and applying
them to the panels.
The D&T students will undertake
a process of research and
development to create a system
that can be fixed directly to the
light fitting itself (therefore not
requiring drilling into the
concrete soffit), refining the
system so it reflects colour

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optimally across the concrete
ceiling, creating a continuous
gradient wash of colour
throughout the spaces from one
light to the next.
The atriums of A block and G
block will have distinctly different
atmospheres, whilst the linking
corridor will become a long
gradient of colour, visible at
length from the main quad
below.
Practice
Critical and
Historical Studies




In art historical and critical
studies, students investigate a
range of artists who
communicate ideas about the
world - consumer and popular
culture, Australian urban and
beach culture.
In art study, students will learn
about the architectural style of
Brutilism. Students will
investigate the architecture of Le
Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
Key architectural spaces that
students will investigate are the
Barbican complex in London and
the National Gallery and High
Court in Canberra.
In historical and critical studies
students investigate the changing
visual language of modern
sculptures.
In art historical and critical
studies the focus will be on the
practice of William Kentridge.
The focus on this artist will
allow students to gain an
understanding of how a case
study is approached in Stage 6,
Year 12.

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Key Practitioners Hokusai, Pop Art: Andy
Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein,
Jasper Knight, Samuel Tupou,
Mambo, Street art
Le Corbusier and Mies van der
Rohe. Key architectural spaces
that students will investigate are
the Barbican complex in London
and the National Gallery and High
Court in Canberra.
Brancusi, Henri Moore, Barbara
Hepworth
Edgar Allen Poes Descent into a
Maelstrom, Caspar David
Friedrich, Turner, Shaun
Gladwells Storm Sequence,
William Kentridge, Todd
McMillan.
ICT Posting digital photographic
documentation of student
works to Edmodo for
exhibition and marking.
The gradient scheme for the
project will be developed through
colour shaded plans and
photomontages, using Photoshop
software.
Posting digital photographic
documentation of student works
to Edmodo for exhibition and
marking.
Students will use digital
cameras to take stills of their
ongoing drawings with the
intention of creating a stop-
frame animation. Students will
then upload their stills to a Mac
or PC to create their animation
using Premiere elements or
similar software. Uploading
videos to a wiki/blog or
Edmodo.
Feedback/assessm
ent
Artmaking: A weighting /20
will be given for completed
relief print.

Art Historical and Critical
Studies: A weighting /5 will be
given for one assignment
based on the practice of one
artist chosen from a list
provided by the teacher.
Artmaking: A weighting of 20%
will be given based on sustained,
considered and active
participation in the project.
Artmaking: A weighting /20 will
be given for completed
soapstone sculpture.

No formal assessment
weighting will be given for the
completion of the work,
however verbal feedback will be
given during presentations of
the animations, as well as
during the process of making.
Feedback will also be provided
in reports due to the unit
correlating with the reporting
period.

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Exhibition Yearly Balgowlah Boys MAD
exhibition. Uploading of works
to Wiki or Blog and/or
Edmodo.
The project will be showcased at
the Term 3 Balgowlah Boys MAD
exhibition. Information about the
project will be uploaded to a blog
and school newsletter.
Yearly Balgowlah Boys exhibition.
Uploading of works to Wiki or
Blog and/or Edmodo.
Yearly Balgowlah Boys
exhibition. Uploading of works
to Wiki or Blog and/or Edmodo.
Resources and
ordering
Lino pieces (30 x 30cm), lino
cutters, quality cartridge
paper, relief inks (white, blue,
other), quality relief paper for
one print, carbon paper for
transferring design onto lino,
digital cameras and macs or
PCs for documentation.
Materials to be confirmed. VAPDs, 2B pencils, sharpeners,
rubbers, soapstone, soapstone
carving tools, rasps, wet and dry
sandpaper, baby oil.
Charcoal, quality cartridge
paper, Edgar Allen Poes
Descent into a Maelstrom,
digital cameras, Macs/PCs or
laptops, software such as
Premier elements.
OH&S Careful instruction of use of
lino cutters, careful
observation of students using
lino cutters. Also, careful
instruction and observation of
use of printing press.
Careful instruction of use of tools
to create paneling. Standard rules
of TAS faculty.
Careful instruction of use of
soapstone carving tools, careful
observation of students using
tools.
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