AC9AVA10E02 – Year 9 The Arts: Visual Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• • researching a diverse range of artworks or designs such as artworks in galleries, protest posters or street art in order to analyse how and why First Nations Australian artists have used visual communication as a tool to express activism for change
• • analysing the ways that First Nations Australian artists use their practices to challenge and inform community debate and present multiple ways of understanding an issue; for example, understandings about “first contacts” between the First Nations Peoples of Australia and people from Britain or Europe
• • comparing, analysing and evaluating ways that contemporary First Nations Australian artists and designers are exploring and challenging concepts and histories of Australia and Australian identity
• • exploring the ways that First Nations Australian visual artists use their practices to communicate ideas, messages and lived experiences to the broader community
• • understanding ways that the arts provide opportunities for First Nations Australian artists and designers to continue and develop their culture
• • investigating how First Nations Australian visual artists are caring for Country/Place, culture and people through the visual arts; for example, by working with representatives of the First Nations Australian community to explore how local groups are caring for the local environment and highlighting these issues through visual arts projects, such as campaigns that focus on environmental issues

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: