Clay objects: Connection to our coast
Summary of task
Students considered how artists communicate their viewpoints and their connection to the natural environment though their artwork. They created clay forms inspired by the artworks of Alison Brown and Aboriginal Thaynakwith artist, Thancoupie. They also identified and explored visual and symbolic aspects of their local coastline through structured visual inquiry to further develop their own ideas for their artwork.
Students reflected on the success and suitability of their choices and actions used to complete their final artworks. They recognised, and explained to an audience, how they used visual conventions to represent and share their experience of the coast.
Achievement standard
By the end of Year 4, students describe and discuss similarities and differences between artworks they make and those to which they respond. They discuss how they and others organise the elements and processes in artworks.
Students collaborate to plan and make artworks that communicate ideas.
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Identifies the artist and the artwork's materials -
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Identifies a technique for creating textures on porcelain artworks and draws a shape -
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Draws organic shapes from the artwork
Copyright
Tideline Series (2014), slipcast form, textured and impressed surface made from shell fragments. Copyright Alison Brown. Reproduced with permission.
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Recognises that it is possible to share experience through an artwork -
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Lists some materials and tools required to make the artwork
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Experiments with line and shape in drawings with graphite pencil
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Manipulates clay using the pinch pot technique to represent a form
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Manipulates the medium of clay using the techniques of slab building and joining -
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Creates a clay shallow bowl with a shell and jellyfish drawing -
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Uses shell pressings and line decoration as well as adding a shell
