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Year 11 - Art and design

Talking about your work

Curating an exhibition

Unit Summary

This teacher-led unit concludes the course with a physical or virtual exhibition. Pupils, having been introduced to curating, will select work based on quality and criteria, explore presentation, and mount and frame their pieces.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to talk confidently about your artwork, explaining your ideas, process, and intention.

Key Notes

  • Talking about artwork helps the artist and the audience understand ideas, process, and intention.
  • Verbal explanations can occur in informal conversations or formal presentations.
  • Reflecting on and discussing artwork helps develop critical thinking and clarity of expression.
  • Linking materials, techniques, and artistic choices to ideas deepens understanding of the work.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • engagement: how others interact with or understand your work
  • promotion: communicating your work to showcase skills, creativity, and ideas

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Artists only talk about their work to promote it in galleries and museums.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Talking about artwork helps the artist and the audience understand ideas, process, and intention. Verbal explanations can occur in informal conversations or formal presentations.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'engagement'

how others interact with or understand your work.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Artists only talk about their work to promote it in galleries and museums. Correction: Artists might talk about their work for engagement and promotion, in a variety of contexts.

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