Question 1

What is NCEA AS 91453 about?

Accepted Answer

This internal standard is about using drawing as a thinking and planning tool in printmaking. Over the year, students build up a body of drawings that explore and develop their printmaking ideas — looking at real printmakers' work for inspiration and using what they learn to push their own concepts forward. It's not about making finished prints; it's about showing how your ideas grow and change through a series of connected drawings.

Question 2

What do students need to do for AS 91453?

Accepted Answer

1. Research and reference real printmakers' work (past or contemporary) and show how their style, techniques, or ideas have influenced your own drawings. 2. Produce a series or sequence of drawings that clearly connect to each other, showing how your printmaking ideas are developing over time. 3. Analyse and reflect on your drawings and the artists you've studied, explaining why you made the choices you did and where your ideas are heading. 4. At higher grade levels, critically evaluate your own work and use that evaluation to take your ideas in new or unexpected directions — including revisiting and rethinking earlier ideas.

Question 3

What's the difference between Achieved, Merit, and Excellence for AS 91453?

Accepted Answer

Achieved: You produce a connected series of drawings that explore your printmaking ideas, and you show you've looked at and learned from established printmakers. Your drawings analyse and develop your concepts in a logical way. Merit: You go further — critically analysing both the artists you've researched and your own drawings, then using those evaluations to push your ideas further and make more deliberate, informed choices in your work. Excellence: You do everything at Merit level, but you also revisit and rethink your earlier ideas, using critical reflection to reshape and extend them into genuinely new directions. Your drawing series shows a sophisticated, evolving conversation between your ideas and established printmaking practice.

Question 4

What mistakes do students typically make in AS 91453?

Accepted Answer

1. Not showing a clear, connected sequence of drawings — work looks like separate unrelated pieces rather than a developing series. 2. Referencing artists too superficially — copying a style without showing real understanding of what makes that printmaker's practice distinctive. 3. Failing to link the drawing investigation back to printmaking specifically — not demonstrating awareness of the particular qualities, constraints, or characteristics of printmaking as a medium. 4. Weak reflection and annotation — not explaining how or why ideas changed, so the development of thinking is invisible to the assessor. 5. Stopping at description rather than analysis — writing or noting what you did rather than why, and what it means for where your work is going.

Drawing from printmaking · AS 91453

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