VCE Art Making and Exhibiting (Year 12)

VCE Art Making and Exhibiting (Year 12) on VCE Vault: 8 lessons written for Year 12 (VCE, Victorian Certificate of Education), each with worked examples, practice questions and Aari, an AI tutor. The first 4 lessons are free; the whole subject is a one-off A$14.99.

VCE Art Making and Exhibiting past exams 2023–2025: 35 questions matched to these lessons.

Lessons

Unit 3 — Collect, Extend and Connect

• Collecting Inspiration and Influences — Artists, Styles and Ideas (free) — Collect inspiration from artists, artworks, exhibitions and your own experiences, and analyse how artists’ styles and practices can influence your art making.
• Art Elements, Art Principles and Materials — The Language of Making (free) — Use art elements, art principles, materials and techniques deliberately in your own work, and analyse them in others’ work.
• Extending Work Through Making and Critique (free) — Extend ideas through sustained making, experimentation and critique, documenting your progress in the Visual Arts Journal.
• Connecting Through Curating — Exhibition Design and the Proposal (free) — Plan the curation and design of an exhibition of your artworks, and write a proposal explaining themes, selection, layout and presentation.

Unit 4 — Consolidate, Present and Conserve

• Refining and Resolving Finished Artworks — Refine and resolve a body of finished artworks that consolidates your ideas, influences and technical skills.
• Presenting and Critiquing Your Artworks — Present finished artworks to an audience and critique your own and others’ work using appropriate art language.
• Conserving and Caring for Art — Preventive Conservation and Museum Roles — Explain the principles of conserving and caring for artworks, including environmental controls, handling, storage, display and transport, and the roles of conservators, curators and registrars.

Exam Preparation

• Exhibitions and the Exam — Analysing Exhibitions and Exam Strategy — Analyse exhibitions you have visited and prepare for the written examination on artists’ practices, exhibition design and conservation.