Folio Assessment Task 40%
What to Include in your Folio direct from SACE outline:
15 A3 pages
The purpose of the folio
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to document your visual learning in support of your works of art or design. Read through these points and make sure you include them in your work.
Description of Assessment
Your folio is a work in progress that should include evidence of your visual learning such as:
The above evidence may be in visual, practical, written, and/or oral forms.
Make sure that your folio is:
Assessment conditions
For a 10-credit subject, as a guide, there should be a total of fifteen A3 sheets (or equivalent) of visual and written and/or oral evidence to support resolved practical work.
The purpose of the folio
This assessment provides an opportunity for you to document your visual learning in support of your works of art or design. Read through these points and make sure you include them in your work.
Description of Assessment
Your folio is a work in progress that should include evidence of your visual learning such as:
- 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, and technology, 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 the justification for those decisions
- photographic evidence of the stages of production and the resolved works of art
- conclusions that challenge or support artistic or design conventions.
The above evidence may be in visual, practical, written, and/or oral forms.
Make sure that your folio is:
- useable and manageable
- portable (paper or digital file)
- set up to allow for continual modification, addition, and review.
Assessment conditions
For a 10-credit subject, as a guide, there should be a total of fifteen A3 sheets (or equivalent) of visual and written and/or oral evidence to support resolved practical work.
Folio Assessment Criteria (more detail is provided for each criteria via the drop down menu)
Practical Application
The specific features are as follows:
- PA2 Exploration to refine technical skills and use media, materials, and technologies.
The specific features are as follows:
- KU1 Knowledge of visual arts concepts, forms, styles, and conventions, and an understanding of their practical application.
- KU2 Knowledge and understanding of visual arts in different cultural, social, and/or historical contexts.
- KU3 Understanding of the aesthetic and/or functional qualities in works of art or design.
Analysis and Response
The specific features are as follows:
- AR2 Use of visual arts language to interpret and respond to works and their contexts.
- AR3 Evaluation of own practical work.
Resources:
What to include in your Folio:
Below instructions are a guide only, I can help you develop an individual plan to follow if needed as everyone's work and ideas are different.
Idea Development 3 pages
- Create a mind map/ brainstorm page with your main theme in the centre. Write as many ideas as possible that you are vaguely interested in exploring through your own artwork. This could include, mediums to try, themes such as landscape, identity, mental health, etc.
- Initial ideas page. Paste photos / artworks/ design works of inspiration making sure you reference the work! Add dot points as to why these images are included.
- Draw small quick sketches that explore the ideas you have from your mind map and artist research. You want to explore many different possibilities here and the drawings are meant to be rough! (You can use other methods such as collage or Photoshop here)
Each page should contain brief notes in order to reflect and document your decisions, eg.
Historical:
Social:
Cultural:
- What does the sketch show? Label sketches.
- What is working/ what can be improved?
- How does this design communicate your idea? Or, what do you think your artwork is communicating? Remember an artwork is personal, but if you are trying to get a message across, what art elements/ principles and subject matter will help you communicate that message?
Historical:
- what art or design movement / time period does your work connect to? Eg. Impressionism, Medieval, Bauhaus School of Art & Design
- any event in history, eg. wars, industrial revolution, etc.
Social:
- mental health / psychology
- political connections
- media, controversial eg. body image
- etc.
Cultural:
- religion/ beliefs
- popular culture
- etc.
2. Artist Work Research 4 pages
5. 8-10 images of at least three different artist’s / designer’s work. You should have a well known practitioner included.
Resources:
6. Each image is to have brief notes called annotations. You may answer these questions to help you, but don’t choose the same questions for each image!
5. 8-10 images of at least three different artist’s / designer’s work. You should have a well known practitioner included.
Resources:
6. Each image is to have brief notes called annotations. You may answer these questions to help you, but don’t choose the same questions for each image!
- What do you like about the artists work? How do they inspire you?
- How does this artist’s / designer’s work connect to your idea/s?
- What colour scheme has been used? What effect/mood does this create?
- Has the artist used any texture?
- Is there a focal point. Describe where it is and what makes it the focal point. Or, discuss why it doesn’t have a focal point.
- Is the composition balanced? Is it symmetrical or unsymmetrical? Where is the visual weight?
- What style is the artist using? Is it realistic, abstract or semi abstract? Why?
- Can you connect this artwork to an art movement? How does it connect?
- What do you think is the theme/concept of the artwork? In other words, what do you think the artist is trying to say?
- Try looking up the artist statement to see what the intended message is and discuss.
- Discuss the mood of this artwork. Is it calming, chaotic, depressing, etc. Why?
- What techniques has the artist used? You can discuss the medium and how they have used it here.
- Do you think this artwork is successful? Why?
- Any other comments?
A grade example of artist research and media experiment to try working in the style of the artist.
7. 1 page of sketches where you try to work in the style of an artist. Dot point what ideas are working and why.
A grade example page of working in the style of an artist. This person has tried the style of Kathryn Del Barton and Roy Lichtenstein. Note the 4 different practical experiments using their own image, but using stylistic features of these artists.
3. Media Experimentation 7 pages
8. Minimum of 7 experiments to test ideas before making your final Practical work.
testing techniques such as brushstrokes for painting, blending, choosing colours, etc. If you are doing a sculptural work you will need to photograph your progress in order to document it, this might include things like, photos of stages of carving or test carving pieces, small models to test the composition, how the work will be presented at the end, etc.
9. Annotate reflection / evaluation comments about your experiments.
8. Minimum of 7 experiments to test ideas before making your final Practical work.
testing techniques such as brushstrokes for painting, blending, choosing colours, etc. If you are doing a sculptural work you will need to photograph your progress in order to document it, this might include things like, photos of stages of carving or test carving pieces, small models to test the composition, how the work will be presented at the end, etc.
9. Annotate reflection / evaluation comments about your experiments.
- Did the experiment work as intended?
- How does this relate to your final piece / the artists you have researched?
- What worked well/ didn’t work well?
- Will this technique be effective in helping communicate your idea/s?
A grade example of media exploration, testing media and developing skills. Note how this person has tried different techniques within the one experimental artwork.
A grade example of another page of rough sketches to test out composition ideas with more refinement. The point of this page is to explore possible ideas for how to arrange subjects within a page and what will be included.
A grade example of idea refinement and concept development. Note how the shape behind the child is East Timor with flowers from that ecosystem.
Test page to document experiments with the chosen medium of plastic. The student has painted flowers on the plastic and placing them over the sketch to see the visual effect. At the bottom she has reference an artist who works in a similar way.
More skill development and media experimentation
4. Bibliography
Include all the sources (research and all images used in folio) you have used throughout your folio.
Eg. Trochim, WM 2006, The research methods knowledge base, 3rd edn, Web Centre for Social Research Methods, viewed 25 November 2010, <http://socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.htm>.
E.g. Chabon, M 2008, Maps and legends, McSweeney’s Books, San Francisco.
Include all the sources (research and all images used in folio) you have used throughout your folio.
- Alphabetical order
- Use the Harvard generator for website or
Eg. Trochim, WM 2006, The research methods knowledge base, 3rd edn, Web Centre for Social Research Methods, viewed 25 November 2010, <http://socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.htm>.
- For books, you reference the information by:
E.g. Chabon, M 2008, Maps and legends, McSweeney’s Books, San Francisco.
Practical connected to folio
This is simply to show you the resolved practical from the folio pages above. You will need to create a final artwork from any medium or method that relates to your own folio work.
This is simply to show you the resolved practical from the folio pages above. You will need to create a final artwork from any medium or method that relates to your own folio work.
Final artwork after thorough testing within the folio. (The reflections have not allowed a nice photo unfortunately!)
Example of Folio pages:
Halima Akhtar from Woldingham School, Caterham, Surrey, UK. Beautiful collage like textile folio.