Art Creative Practice VCE has been developed by a highly experienced Art educator to support teachers in implementing the new VCE Study Design and to fully prepare students to achieve success in VCE.
- Focuses on the updated key knowledge and skills required to develop creative and critical thinking in art making and theory.
- Provides robust exam preparation for end-of-year examinations with annotated student responses in each unit, oral presentation preparation guides, focus on technology and comprehensive glossaries to aid recall.
- Focuses on giving students skills in research, analysis, art history and criticism to interpret and debate the ideas and issues that are raised in artworks.
- Clearly identifies the interpretive lenses (structural, personal and cultural) with icons throughout the text.
- Helps students understand how artworks reflect the values, beliefs and traditions of the artist who make them, as well as providing inspiration for students for a personal creative practice.
- Investigates the role of art through a study of historical and contemporary artists with examples of artworks post 2000.
- Inspires students with case studies, activities and examples of work from art practitioners and students.
- Develops skills in critical and creative thinking, innovation, problem solving and risk-taking.
- Brings the study of Art to life with engaging digital resources including voice recordings, rollover glossary definitions and downloadable versions of activities.
Learn more at cambridge.edu.au/vceart
About the AuthorDeryck Greenwood is the Head of Visual Arts at Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School and has worked in secondary education for the past 33 years. Deryck began his teaching career in South Africa, where he taught at a specialist state arts school for 11 years. Since moving to Australia, Deryck has worked within the independent school system. He has taught VCE Art, Studio Arts and VCD, and currently teachers Art Creative Practice. Deryck has worked for the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority in various capacities including as State Reviewer, examination writer and assessor, art reviewer and as a member of the study design review panel.
Deryck has presented a number of workshops on folio development and examination preparation for VCE students and teachers, was co-author of the VCE Art publication Art-iculate and wrote the Course Outline and Assessment Criteria for Monash College’s Diploma of Art and Design Studies.The Interactive Textbook is available as a two-calendar-year subscription. Your subscription term is defined as follows: if activation occurs between January and July of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the following year. If activation occurs between August and December of this year, subscription concludes on 31 December in the year after the following.
