1 NCEA Level 3 - Visual Arts 2010 Examples of Candidate Work – Sculpture

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6 This submission demonstrates a tremendous facility and sensitivity towards the combination of materials. The candidate has demonstrated an intuitive and yet calculated approach in the fusion of both organic and inorganic found objects. They have developed in tandem both the formal and conceptual threads in the body of work which has allowed for a diverse and yet thorough sculptural investigation. The understanding that the candidate demonstrates in evaluating and building upon ideas in the manufacture of objects, allows them to create inventive and astute sculptural outcomes. The discursive and thorough investigation at the start of the submission sets up a range of possible directions that the candidate could pursue. These options have been explored and refined to create a strong proposition. This has allowed the candidate to take risks and explore technically challenging options whilst still understanding the limitations of the materials selected. The exploration of kinetic or animated works, both physically and metaphorically, provides the candidate with a range of possibilities to further extend ideas beyond the submission.

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10 Excellence This submission demonstrates a technically astute, intelligent and strategic approach to developing a body of work within sculpture. The use of documentation to clearly define and describe sculptural ideas has allowed the candidate to build upon a range and depth of ideas. The candidate demonstrates a commanding understanding of materials and techniques that build upon ideas of form, mass, weight and illusion. In conjunction with the technical facility the submission has established a strong sculptural proposition that recognises both conceptual and formal possibilities that have been explored thoughtfully throughout the body of work. The recognition of the material properties within the initial works have been evaluated and developed to allow for a range of contemporary modes of sculptural practice. The candidate also demonstrates a strong understanding of how to expand and translate ideas through appropriate technologies and methods in the production of work. The commitment to experimentation and evaluation of ideas in a range of approaches to the sculptural problem allows this candidate to resolve ambitious and convincing sculptural outcomes.

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15 Merit This submission steadily and confidently explores assemblage and installation processes, procedures, materials and techniques. Logical arrangements have been explored and then analysed which clarify sculptural ideas in a linear and purposeful manner. 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. 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 and depth of ideas and methods in the production of work.

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19 Merit This submission uses a surrealist narrative proposition to explore sculptural ideas. Well established ideas have been employed to investigate a relationship of scale, proportion and material shift. This candidate has utilised the translation of ideas through a range of processes materials and techniques that clarify the sculptural options. The evaluation of the difficulty in using performance in this instance has enabled the candidate to purposefully regenerate the central proposition in an effective and considered manner. The use of materials and processes are manageable and mostly well understood and yet the reliance upon a specific narrative has restrained the candidate from critically relating and evaluating ideas in order to synthesise a range of ideas and methods in the production of work. In order to gain Achievement with Excellence this candidate would have needed to have expanded the central notion of proportional and scale shift to expand the range and depth of ideas within a wider body of subject matter. The reliance of the elephant motif has restrained the candidate from realising a depth of ideas within the body of work.

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24 Achieved This submission works logically through a series of related formal processes that are derivative of the established practice studied. The candidate has employed a thematic study to drive the development of ideas in an elementary manner. Potential options have not been recognised and the candidate has returned to recreating derivative ideas in the production of work. To achieve with Merit this candidate would have needed to expand upon the relationship of object within space in order to explore options in spatial manipulation and transformation. This candidate would have also benefited from investigating a wider range of established practice to inform a means of developing and evaluating sculptural ideas.

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28 Achieved This submission uses a flexible planar material to develop simple sculptural ideas in a rational and predictable series. Material properties have been explored and well documented in a linear and related system. The thorough exploration of the one material has however also restrained the candidate’s ability to generate and develop options. The regeneration of ideas occurs late on the last panel where the planar qualities of the material have been explored in the context of a combining of forms from found objects in space. This candidate would have benefitted from greater analysis in refining the ideas within the body of work. Although the candidate is operating from implicit sculptural established practice, particular artist models that deal with the delineating of space through the addition of a planar material would have assisted this candidate in decisions about processes procedures materials and techniques. In order for this candidate to achieve the standard with Merit they would have needed to demonstrate evidence of purposeful drawing as a thinking process to provide options in the generation, clarification, analysis and regeneration of ideas.