Scholarship Art - Design

Format of the Assessment 

Candidates are to produce a portfolio and workbook extracts for assessment.
The portfolio can be EITHER a three-panel portfolio (folio board) OR a moving image portfolio, representing the requirements of the standard.
The workbook and the submitted portfolio must be prepared together, in parallel, in the same year.
Workbook material must be submitted in an A3 clearfile folder and is limited to 8 single sided A3 pages plus ONE title page.  

Outcome Description

The student will use knowledge of design to produce an original body of work.

Scholarship Performance Descriptor

The student will demonstrate aspects of high level:

• Analysis and critical thinking.
• Integration, synthesis, and application of highly developed knowledge, skills, and understanding to complex situations.
• Logical development, precision and clarity of ideas.

 
Candidates who were awarded Scholarship commonly:

• Were prepared to take risks to propel and develop ideas in parallel to strengthening their command of visual language and process.
• Analysed a range of design references, eliciting technical and conceptual information to inform their decisions, and use of media and digital skills.
• Controlled communication, whereby narrative and message were authentically connected to the management of visual language and conventions within the field (design practice).
• Engaged in a range of making modalities to construct and consider formats and materials pertinent to their topic and provocation.