Folio
In Stage 2 you will be required to create two folios, which will lead into two separate final artworks or designs or a series of artworks.
The folio is the documentation of the process that you undertake to reach your final practical piece. It should show that you understand what your final artwork is about conceptually and that you have experimented and trialled with different ways to make the artwork to create the best outcome for you.
Make sure you annotate (comment) everything you include in your folio. You need to justify how your media experiments/art research/sketches lead to your final practical piece. Use arts language where ever possible. Use the art term glossary section to help you.
There is a lot to think about when creating an artwork. Your folio will help you break down the steps to achieve the best possible final outcome.
Ideas to get you started:
Topics
Media Experiments
Presentation
The folio is the documentation of the process that you undertake to reach your final practical piece. It should show that you understand what your final artwork is about conceptually and that you have experimented and trialled with different ways to make the artwork to create the best outcome for you.
Make sure you annotate (comment) everything you include in your folio. You need to justify how your media experiments/art research/sketches lead to your final practical piece. Use arts language where ever possible. Use the art term glossary section to help you.
There is a lot to think about when creating an artwork. Your folio will help you break down the steps to achieve the best possible final outcome.
Ideas to get you started:
Topics
- The natural environment
- Portraiture
- Politics
- Design. - Graphic, product, packaging, architecture, landscaping.
- The human condition. For example, health - mental health, anxiety, body image etc.
- Current Issues in society
- etc.
Media Experiments
- Painting - acrylics, oil, watercolours etc
- Charcoal, pencils, graphite
- Mixed media
- Printmaking
- Collage
- Clay/ceramics
- Plaster
- Recycled/found items
- Metal
- Wood
- Paper mache
- Fabric/textiles
- Photography
- Photoshop
Presentation
- 2D or 3D
- Photography
- Painting on canvas, paper, wood, found items
- Sculpture (metal, ceramics, wood, plaster, plastic, etc.)
- Mosaics
- Jewellery
- Installation
- Projection - digital media
From the SACE outline:
Assessment Type 1: Folio (40%)
For a 10credit subject, students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their one work of art or design.
For a 20credit subject, students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their two works of art or design.
A work of art or design may be a single resolved practical or body of resolved work.
The folio is a work in progress that should be:
For a 10credit subject, as a guide, there should be a total of twenty A3 sheets (or equivalent) of visual and written and/or oral evidence to support one resolved practical work or a body of resolved work.
For a 20credit subject, as a guide, there should be a total of forty A3 sheets (or equivalent) of visual and written and/or oral evidence to support two resolved practical works, or a body of resolved work.
For a 10credit subject, students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their one work of art or design.
For a 20credit subject, students produce one folio that documents their visual learning, in support of their two works of art or design.
A work of art or design may be a single resolved practical or body of resolved work.
The folio is a work in progress that should be:
- useable and manageable
- portable (paper or digital file)
- set up to allow for continual modification, addition, and review.
- starting points for visual thinking
- the application of creative thinking and/or problem-solving skills
- sources of inspiration and influence
- the analysis and comparison of works of art or design
- the development of alternative ideas or concepts
- the evaluation and review of ideas and progress
- annotated comments to clarify thinking
- explorations and experiments with style, media, materials, technologies, and processes with annotated observations and appraisals
- the practice and application of skills, which may include repetition and analysis
- the refinement of ideas leading up to decisions about the final resolved product and justification for those decisions
- photographic evidence of the stages of production and the resolved works of art or design
- conclusions that challenge or support artistic or design conventions.
For a 10credit subject, as a guide, there should be a total of twenty A3 sheets (or equivalent) of visual and written and/or oral evidence to support one resolved practical work or a body of resolved work.
For a 20credit subject, as a guide, there should be a total of forty A3 sheets (or equivalent) of visual and written and/or oral evidence to support two resolved practical works, or a body of resolved work.
Make sure you are checking the key criteria throughout the year to make sure you including the right content.
This is a simplified version of the rubric criteria:
Practical component:
Concept
Exploration of media and technical skills
Documentation and problem solving
Knowledge or written component:
Knowledge of visual arts
Cultural, social and historical knowledge
Aesthetic and functional qualities in art or design
Evaluation of own and other artists works
This is a simplified version of the rubric criteria:
Practical component:
Concept
Exploration of media and technical skills
Documentation and problem solving
Knowledge or written component:
Knowledge of visual arts
Cultural, social and historical knowledge
Aesthetic and functional qualities in art or design
Evaluation of own and other artists works