VCE Art Making and Exhibiting past exams 2023–2025
Every question from the last three VCE Art Making and Exhibiting exams, matched to the lesson that teaches it, with class averages from the examiners' reports and worked solutions. VCE Art Making and Exhibiting (Year 12) lessons.
2025 Exam
- Q1 (4 marks, class average 60%): How tone is used in Luccio's drypoint of an industrial rail yard on page 1 of the insert. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q2 (4 marks, class average 57%): How space is used in Bosschaert's painting of a flower vase in an arched window. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q3 (6 marks, class average 55%): How an artist from the insert used materials, techniques and processes for visual language. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making, Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas
- Q4 (8 marks, class average 57%): Propose how to present your own artwork, using presentation, didactics and the space's character. Lesson: Presenting and Critiquing Your Artworks, Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q5 (10 marks, class average 54%): Evaluate presentation, conservation and care for works on display in an exhibition you visited. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles, Exhibitions and the Exam — Analysing Exhibitions and Exam Strategy
- Q6 (8 marks, class average 46%): Conservation and care on display for an outdoor installation of huge woven stick structures. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles
- Q7 (6 marks, class average 55%): Explain the ideas and meaning in an artwork you choose from the insert. Lesson: Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas
- Q8a (4 marks, class average 83%): Place four chosen artworks and one didactic panel on a plan of a gallery. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q8b (10 marks, class average 56%): Explain how you presented the four artworks and how they relate to each other. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q9 (10 marks, class average 48%): Relationships between three artists you studied and how they shape a planned exhibition of their work. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal, Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas
- Q10 (10 marks, class average 42%): Analyse how Andrea Kowch resolved visual language in her painting of a picnic overrun by crows. Lesson: Refining and Resolving Finished Artworks, Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas
2024 Exam
- Q1 (4 marks, class average 65%): How colour is used in Wieser's drawing of triangles on page 1 of the insert. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q2 (4 marks, class average 63%): How movement is used in a Robinson landscape painting (image withheld in the published paper). Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q3 (6 marks, class average 60%): Display methods for a Papapetrou photograph in an exhibition about animals in art. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal, Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles
- Q4 (8 marks, class average 56%): Analyse how Nick Cave's subject matter and ideas came from his influences and inspiration. Lesson: Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas
- Q5 (8 marks, class average 48%): How a curator researches and writes labels and panels on a studied artist for a planned show. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q6a (4 marks, class average 98%): Place four artworks (ceramics, textile, linocut, video) on a plan of a two-room space. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q6b (10 marks, class average 62%): Analyse your layout of the four artworks and the relationships between them. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q7 (9 marks, class average 63%): Conservation and care for the materials of your own art form in storage, transport and display. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles
- Q8 (7 marks, class average 50%): Evaluate how an artist from the insert used materials, techniques and processes. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q9 (10 marks, class average 52%): Compare the conservation and care for an exhibited artwork with the presentation of your own. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles, Presenting and Critiquing Your Artworks
- Q10 (10 marks, class average 51%): Propose an exhibition of three still lifes: curatorial considerations and relationships. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
2023 Exam
- Q1a (1 mark, class average 93%): Name one conservation method. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles
- Q1b (4 marks, class average 65%): Apply your conservation method to one art form of your choice. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles
- Q2 (3 marks, class average 70%): How colour is used in Vasarely's geometric painting on page 1 of the insert. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q3 (3 marks, class average 73%): How repetition is used in Nona's linocut of turtles on page 1 of the insert. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q4a (4 marks, class average 63%): How a giant KAWS figure could be handled and transported to a space you name. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles
- Q4b (8 marks, class average 57%): How a curator might display the KAWS figure in a contemporary sculpture exhibition. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q5 (7 marks, class average 60%): Analyse the aesthetic qualities of a Japanese woodcut of a bridge in the rain. Lesson: Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making
- Q6 (6 marks, class average 67%): How an artist you studied uses visual language to communicate meaning. Lesson: Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas
- Q7 (12 marks, class average 52%): Evaluate presenting and conserving Whiteread's huge installation of stacked white boxes. Lesson: Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles, Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q8a (3 marks, class average 97%): Place three artworks (a vessel, a video, a painting) on a plan of a small gallery. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q8b (9 marks, class average 62%): Explain where you placed each of the three artworks. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q9 (10 marks, class average 54%): Display of two artworks in an exhibition you visited: curatorial choices and connections. Lesson: Exhibitions and the Exam — Analysing Exhibitions and Exam Strategy, Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal
- Q10 (10 marks, class average 57%): Propose an exhibition of three artworks: space, connections and conservation on display. Lesson: Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal, Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles