Visual Arts supports students to view the world through various lenses and contexts. They recognise the significance of visual arts histories, theories and practices, exploring and responding to artists, craftspeople and designers and their artworks. They apply visual arts knowledge in order to make critical judgments about their own work and that of others. Learning in the Visual Arts helps students to develop understanding of world cultures and their responsibilities as global citizens.

The Visual Arts curriculum aims to develop students’:

• conceptual and perceptual ideas and expressions through design and inquiry processes
• visual arts techniques, materials, processes and technologies
• critical and creative thinking, using visual arts languages, theories and practices to apply aesthetic judgment
• respect for and acknowledgement of the diverse roles, innovations, traditions, histories and cultures of artists, craftspeople, designers, curators, critics and commentators
• respect for visual arts as social and cultural practices
• confidence, curiosity, imagination and enjoyment and a personal aesthetic through engagement with visual arts making, viewing, discussing, analysing, interpreting and evaluating.