NCEA Level 3 - Visual Arts 2008

1. NCEA Level 3 - Visual Arts 2008 Examples of Candidate Work - Sculpture

2. Achieved

6. Achieved This submission whilst creating some charming individual works struggles to realise its strengths and build upon the success of works through a logical sculptural proposition. The candidate has used the traditional sculptural proposition assemblage and rearrangement of materials to enable a subversion of the selected found objects. The development of ideas is logical and yet predictable. The candidate would benefit from further exploration and research into established practice and associated methods, materials and techniques. To achieve the standard with merit the candidate would have to demonstrate evidence of more purposeful drawing as a thinking process to provide options in the generation, clarification, analysis and regeneration of ideas. The candidate would also have to demonstrate an ability to relate and evaluate ideas and methods in the production of work.

10. Achieved This submission works through a number of methods and materials to explore related sculptural ideas. Although this submission has succeeded in using a range of materials and methods the candidate is not always clear about appropriate ways in which to develop an idea. They have however developed a systematic approach to relating ideas and methods in the production of work. The submission explores ideas that have then been dropped to explore other ideas. This has therefore restrained the candidate’s ability to evaluate and expand on any given proposition. To achieve with merit this candidate would need to employ a more systematic and evaluative approach to relating ideas and methods in the production of work. This would have been assisted by investigating a broader range of established practice to inform a means of developing sculptural ideas.

11. Merit

15. Merit This candidate has purposefully developed ideas through the careful use of materials and methods that clarify and regenerate options towards an expanding and complex proposition. The use of materials and ideas are simple and predictable and yet logical and well resolved. This candidate has relied upon logical and yet derivative approaches to the development of work. Further editing and greater depth in the investigation of particular sculptural ideas from established practice (that deal with light installation) would have strengthened this submission. In order to gain achievement with excellence this candidate would have had to employ more drawing methods to generate a greater range and depth of ideas to analyse, clarify and regenerate options. Secondly this candidate needed to demonstrate a greater range and depth of ideas and methods in context in the production of work.

19. Merit This submission is a good example of how a candidate can explore ideas robustly and intuitively. This candidate has however, not realised the potential for the development of ideas in a number of works that have been abandoned for less convincing methods. The use of a greater range of research in established practice would have enabled this candidate to achieve the depth of investigation required for achievement with excellence. In order for this candidate to achieve with excellence they would have also needed to employ a more critical approach to relating and evaluating ideas to enable the synthesis of a range of ideas and methods in the production of work.

20. Excellence

24. Excellence This candidate has presented a poetic, sophisticated and elegant body of work. This submission demonstrates an excellent attitude to editing that has demonstrated the candidate’s ability to interpret and manipulate scale, materials and site in an insightful and fluent manner. The strength of this submission also lies in the decision to redefine less successful works in terms of the core conceptual proposition. The use of drawing to critically analyse and evaluate ideas has enabled this candidate to make dynamic steps into developing ideas in the production of work. Also the synthesis of a range of ideas, methods and techniques from established practice and the candidates own conviction for the proposition has allowed this candidate to produce an exceptional body of work. The commitment to experimentation and evaluation of ideas in a range of approaches to the sculptural problem, suggests a plethora of potential further steps in developing the ideas within this submission.

28. Excellence This submission develops systematically in a range and depth of ideas with fluency and purpose. The candidate explores simple ideas through documentation of performative acts using drawing, which is built upon throughout the submission. The ability to reinterpret these ideas in a range of methods and techniques enriches the conceptual and formal attitudes to the production of work. The candidate has also benefited from experimenting with methods and materials and has demonstrated critical reflection to enable the production of work to return full circle, both conceptually and formally to the initial proposition. The submission uses a very systematic and evaluative approach to enable sequencing and presentation of documentation that reinforces the central proposition.