Students will develop knowledge and skills in designing and making when:

• using judgement when making artistic visual design decisions for varying contexts, audience purposes, and situations
• making artworks exploring content through the frames
• using research to guide artistic visual design practice
• experimenting with various processes, techniques and skills adapted from various artistic design styles
• considering, interpreting and influencing meaning when constructing layers of their visual design works.

Students will learn about critical and historical studies when:

• assessing and describing particular artists, artworks, audience responses and representations of the world through visual design and designers
• investigating points of view expressed through art by artists/designers in various styles and interpretations of the world
• using judgment to justify and argue qualities and meaning of an artwork/art design or an event as represented through art history
• studying representations of history in artworks as portrayed by an artist/ designer’s ideas, issues, events, circumstances, beliefs and technologies
• reading, viewing and criticising critical and historical interpretations and evaluations of artworks/ designs, exhibitions, personal and written accounts.