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1. VISUAL ARTS
CONTACT DETAILS
Ms Melanie Taylor
Head of Visual Arts
02 9683 8649
Mlt@kings.edu.au
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To create an innovative,
challenging and rewarding
learning environment that models,
teaches and rewards creativity,
innovation, initiative, risk taking,
diverse skill acquisition and
enquiry that encapsulates design
and critical thinking. To embody
academic excellence with character
development that aligns with art
and design industries
best practice.
HSC
Visual Arts
Course
ARTMAKING SKILLS
Painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking,
design, photography, digital media, mixed media,
architecture, film, animation, installation art.
HSC COURSE
Year 12 Body of Work – Students select their own
media area/s and create a series of artworks that
explores a theme of their choosing. Students are
provided with their own studio space where they
can work in their own time as well as in class time.
ART HISTORY
• History of Art with a focus on contemporary
practice.
• Critical Analysis
• Analytical writing
• Art Critics and Historians
EXCURSIONS
Artmaking tours, gallery visits, artist workshops,
guest artist tutors, university visits, critic and
historian talks.

2. 2017
HSC
RESULTS
‘Visual Arts is of great relevance to students’ lives
and enables them to gain increasing intellectual
autonomy, evident in interpretations of their own
work and the work of others. The subject rewards
individual thinking in the representations of students’
ideas both aesthetically and persuasively. It offers
students opportunities to engage in creative and
inductive forms of inquiry and to be assessed on
their production – through the making of artworks –
as well as on their critical and historical
understanding of art, demonstrated in their writing
and talking about art.’ NSW Visual Arts Syllabus
Visual Arts students at The King’s School develop
a large range of skills in art forms such as painting,
drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, design,
photography, digital media, mixed media,
architecture, film, animation and crafts. The students
have access to an extensive range of traditional and
contemporary practices and can utilise facilities such
as a photographic studio, DSLR and Go Pro
cameras, laser cutter, 3D printing, ceramic studio,
senior art studio, contemporary design software and
junior and senior art clubs. Students also explore art
through excursions to art galleries and events and
benefit from the many visiting artists who provide
intensive skill workshops for the students each year.
The study of Visual Arts also includes analytical
writing where students explore art history through
the Visual Arts Syllabus Framework.
5
Art Express
Nominations
1st or 2nd
ATAR Contribution 1st or
2nd in 92% of students
100%
Band
5 and 6
91
HSC Class
average of 90+
2
Art Express
Selections
Harrison Everett | The Infraclass Cirrapedia
Tim Sampson | 3pc Comfort Socks. PN:1674909374
2017 ART EXPRESS SELECTIONS
Henri Matisse
Creativity
takes
courage
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