Third year Visual Art & Design studio: portfolio of work (semester 2)
Developed by Llewllyn Negrin, Meg Keating, Anne McDonald, Leigh Hobba, Milan Milojevic, James Newitt, David Stephenson and Moira Cordiner
This generic criteria sheet was a revision of an earlier second semester one that did not allow enough differentiation between the high distinction and distinction students.
There were no descriptors about the quality of the portfolio. The revised sheet has more specific criteria and descriptors about the process of art and design and the
resulting products. It is written to be generic so that it can be applied to all the studios: painting, photography, sculpture, electronic media, and printmaking, furniture and
visual communication.
Synopsis of the task and its context
The task, weighted 100%, requires students to produce a portfolio of resolved art and/or design work that is exhibited or displayed to the public. The work is supported by
documentation of their research and explorations conducted during the development of the work in the form of a ‘journal’ (that can take a variety of forms such as a wiki,
blog), plus a project statement. This statement outlines the intentions that inform the project and how these were realised and expressed. The portfolio is examined by a
panel of assessors that includes the studio lecturer and two members who don’t teach in that studio. This criteria sheet shows weighted criteria (10%, 30% 60%) for six
studios (painting, photography, sculpture, electronic media, printmaking and furniture). For the other studio (visual communication), the weightings for these criteria are
equal. All the studios share the same learning outcomes, but have different tasks.
Match between learning outcomes and criteria for the task
Learning outcomes (unrevised)
task specific criteria
On completion of this unit, you should be able to:
To complete this task, you should:
1. Exploration through:
 using critical thinking skills, (such as problem framing and resolution, decision making,
reflective practice and researching)
 developing and selecting strategies to communicate intent through producing works.
Explore, research and document:
 experimenting
 investigating
 framing problems by reflecting
2.
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Demonstrating a Knowledge of Art and Design through an:
understanding of concepts, principles, media and practice of your discipline
awareness of relevant historical and contemporary contexts and cultural debates
understanding of the formal qualities of the chosen medium and essential terminology
Apply knowledge from your explorations to:
 make decisions media, strategies, techniques, formal qualities
 situate practice in your discipline
3.
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Expression through:
the practical and creative resolution of ideas
using your own modes/s of expression
adhering to the conventions of the artist statement
Express the project outcomes through:
 conceptual and practical resolution of ideas
 exhibiting or displaying work
 a project statement
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Student name
portfolio of work
criteria
Explore, research
and document:
 experimenting
 investigating
 framing problems
by reflecting
Weighting 10%
Student number
weighting 100 %
HD
To develop and create the
work, you:
 independently explored and
thoroughly researched and
documented with
pertinence to the project,
through:
 experimenting in depth
with different, relevant
approaches and solutions
to problems
 extensively and
perceptively investigating
cultural issues and
perspectives, writers,
artefacts, work of other
artists and/or designers,
and correctly
acknowledging sources
 clearly defining problems
by objectively reflecting
on the formal, technical,
and conceptual aspects
of your work
Apply knowledge
from your
explorations to:
 make decisions
media, strategies,
techniques, formal
qualities
 situate practice in
your discipline
Weighting 30%
DN
CR
PP
NN
To develop and create the
work, you:
 independently explored,
researched and documented
with pertinence to the
project, through:
To develop and create the
work, you:
 explored, researched and
documented with a relation
to the project, through:
To develop and create the
work, you:
 explored, researched and
documented mostly related
to the project, through:
To create the work, you:
 tenuously related your
explorations and
documentation to your
project by:
 experimenting with
different, relevant
approaches and solutions
to problems
 extensively investigating
cultural issues and
perspectives, writers,
artefacts, work of other
artists and/or designers,
and correctly
acknowledging sources
 experimenting with
different, relevant
approaches and solutions
to problems
 investigating cultural
issues and perspectives,
writers, artefacts, work of
other artists and/or
designers, and correctly
acknowledging sources
 experimenting with a
relevant approach and
solutions to problems
 experimenting with an
approach
 partially investigating
cultural issues and
perspectives, writers,
artefacts, work of other
artists and/or designers,
and correctly
acknowledging sources
 finding some information
about work of other artists
and/or designers, and
acknowledging sources
 defining problems by
objectively reflecting on
the formal, technical, and
conceptual aspects of
your work
 defining problems by
reflecting on the formal,
technical, and conceptual
aspects of your work
 identifying some
problems by reflecting on
the formal, technical, and
conceptual aspects of
your work
 describing some aspects
of your work
 applied thorough
 applied thorough
knowledge from your
knowledge from your
explorations to:
explorations to:
 make astute decisions
 make considered
clearly aligned with the
decisions clearly aligned
project by selecting
with the project by
relevant media,
selecting relevant media,
strategies, techniques
strategies, techniques
and formal qualities
and formal qualities
 specifically situate the work within the relevant field in your
discipline
 applied knowledge from
your explorations to:
 make decisions clearly
aligned with the project
by selecting relevant
media, strategies,
techniques and formal
qualities
 situate the work within the
relevant field in your
discipline
2
 applied knowledge from
your explorations to:
 make decisions aligned
with the project by
selecting mostly relevant
media, strategies,
techniques and formal
qualities
 situate the work within
broad context of your
discipline
 applied rudimentary
knowledge from your
explorations to:
 select media, strategies
and techniques
Student name
portfolio of work
criteria
Express project
outcome through:
 conceptual and
practical resolution
of ideas
 exhibiting or
displaying work
 a project
statement
Weighting 60%
Student number
weighting 100 %
HD
To develop and create the
work, you:
 insightfully and ambitiously
expressed the project
outcome through:
 taking a focussed
perspective that is multilayered in meaning to
conceptually resolve the
work by extending it
beyond the obvious and
literal
DN
To develop and create the
work, you:
 insightfully OR ambitiously
expressed the project
outcome through:
 taking a focussed
perspective to
conceptually resolve the
work by extending it
beyond the obvious and
literal
 effectively using and
 effectively using and
controlling selected
controlling selected
techniques and
techniques and
processes to achieve:
processes to achieve:
 a highly refined
 a refined aesthetic and
aesthetic and practical
practical resolution of
resolution of form and
form and content
content
 effectively exhibited or displayed work within the limitations of
the display space
 wrote a clear, concise and logically-structured and
grammatically correct project statement that summarised:
 the intentions that informed the project
CR
To develop and create the
work, you:
 expressed the project
outcome through:
NN
To develop and create the
work, you:
 expressed the project
outcome through:
 taking a focussed
perspective to
conceptually resolve the
work that had meaning
 taking a perspective to
conceptually resolve work
that had meaning
 effectively using and
controlling selected
techniques and
processes to achieve:
 practical resolution of
form and content
 using and controlling
selected techniques and
processes to achieve:
 some practical
resolution of form and
content
To create the work, you:
 expressed an idea that:
 used techniques and
processes
 exhibited or displayed work within the limitations of the
display space
 exhibited or displayed work
 wrote a clear, mostly
concise and logicallystructured and
grammatically correct
project statement that
summarised:
 the intentions that
informed the project
 wrote a project statement
that described what you did
to create the work
 how you realised and expressed the project outcome in
terms of your successful key strategies
Comments
PP
 how you realised and
expressed the project
outcome in terms of your
strategies
Grade
3
 wrote a clear and logicallystructured and mostly
grammatically correct
project statement that
described:
 the intentions that
informed the project
 how you realised and
expressed the project
outcome