VCE Art Creative Practice past exams 2023–2025

Every question from the last three VCE Art Creative Practice exams, matched to the lesson that teaches it, with class averages from the examiners' reports and worked solutions. VCE Art Creative Practice (Year 12) lessons.

2025 Exam

• Q1 (5 marks, class average 80%): How line is used in Lesbia Thorpe's linocut of moths around a lamp on the Westminster Steps. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q2 (6 marks, class average 73%): How emphasis creates a focal point in Fleur Optekamp's undersea paper collage. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q3 (6 marks, class average 75%): Discuss the ideas or issues in an artwork by an artist you studied this year. Lesson: Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art
• Q4 (8 marks, class average 61%): How Bharti Kher's bindi-covered deer sculpture uses visual language to make meaning. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens
• Q5 (8 marks, class average 61%): How the different settings of Megan Cope's oyster-shell installation change its meanings. Lesson: Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens, Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method
• Q6 (13 marks, class average 58%): Ideas in William Kentridge's practice of animated charcoal drawing, using the source and film stills. Lesson: The Creative Practice — Research, Exploration, Experimentation and Reflection, Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art, Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method
• Q7a (7 marks, class average 63%): Compare an 1820s painting of a blacksmith and a 2010 photograph of a woman chainmaker, culturally. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens
• Q7b (7 marks, class average 59%): Compare the blacksmith painting and the chainmaker photograph through the Structural Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q8 (20 marks, class average 51%): Compare two works each by a historical and a contemporary artist you studied, through the Personal Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens

2024 Exam

• Q1 (5 marks, class average 78%): How colour is used in Pam Wilson's appliqué wall hanging of a Brisbane suburb. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q2 (5 marks, class average 78%): How movement is shown in Jeff Wall's staged photograph of a sudden gust of wind. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q3 (8 marks, class average 68%): Interpret Kathleen Ryan's jewelled sculpture of a mouldy lemon using the Structural Lens. Lesson: Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens, Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method
• Q4 (6 marks, class average 67%): How Jason Wing uses visual language in a bronze bust of Captain Cook in a balaclava. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens, Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art
• Q5 (8 marks, class average 65%): How Jackson Pollock's materials and techniques shape the visual language of an early crayon drawing. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q6 (14 marks, class average 58%): How Movana Chen's practice of knitting shredded maps communicates ideas, supported by two sources. Lesson: The Creative Practice — Research, Exploration, Experimentation and Reflection, Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art, Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method
• Q7a (7 marks, class average 59%): Compare a 1600s still life and a fast-food photograph through the Personal Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q7b (7 marks, class average 63%): Compare Peeters's still life and Rütten's fast-food photograph through the Cultural Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens
• Q8 (8 marks, class average 70%): The ideas and issues in one Unit 3 artist's work, through one artwork and one lens. Lesson: Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens
• Q9 (12 marks, class average 63%): Compare a contemporary and a historical artwork you studied through the Structural Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens

2023 Exam

• Q1 (5 marks, class average 78%): How shape works as an art element in a textile and paint piece by Elizabeth Willing. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q2 (6 marks, class average 75%): How contrast and repetition work in Ethel Spowers's 1929 wood engraving of a ploughing scene. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q3 (7 marks, class average 66%): Interpret a painted earthenware platter of a red-tailed black cockatoo using the Structural Lens. Lesson: Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens, Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method
• Q4a (7 marks, class average 69%): The ideas Michael Cook explores in a digital print of giant lizards attacking London. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens
• Q4b (7 marks, class average 67%): How scale communicates ideas in Cook's image of giant lizards in London. Lesson: Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q5 (14 marks, class average 64%): Ideas in the Yonetanis' installation of breakable ceramic tiles, supported by sources. Lesson: The Creative Practice — Research, Exploration, Experimentation and Reflection, Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art, Analysing an Unseen Artwork — A Step-by-Step Method
• Q6a (7 marks, class average 67%): Compare a Rococo portrait and a clothing installation through the Structural Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens
• Q6b (7 marks, class average 63%): Compare Boucher's portrait and Guerra de la Paz's installation through the Cultural Lens. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens
• Q7 (6 marks, class average 72%): Discuss one idea or issue in the practice of an artist you studied in Unit 3. Lesson: Art Ideas and Issues — Debates About the Role and Meaning of Art
• Q8 (14 marks, class average 62%): Compare a historical and a contemporary artwork you studied using the Personal and Cultural Lenses. Lesson: Comparing Artists, Their Practices and Their Artworks, Interpretive Lenses — The Structural Lens and the Personal Lens, Interpretive Lenses — The Cultural Lens and the Contemporary Lens