Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within sculpture practice
You need to create a portfolio of sculpture work that shows you can use the techniques and methods that real sculptors use, while also developing and improving your own artistic ideas throughout the process. This means planning a clear project, researching how other sculptors work, creating original pieces, and refining your ideas as you go so your final work is more complex and thoughtful than what you started with.
You establish a clear project with a topic relevant to sculpture, research some artist models, create original sculptural work, and show some development through iterations, even if the refinement is limited or repetitive.
You develop a purposeful brief with clear intentions, integrate artist research to strengthen your conceptual thinking, produce original work with consistent personal style, show systematic development through linked iterations, and present refined final outcomes that demonstrate audience awareness.
You create a focused brief with creative ambition, synthesise artist research and contextual understanding to generate conceptually rich ideas, demonstrate distinctive sculptural language with control of form and materials, develop ideas iteratively with evidence of reflection, regenerate and transform imagery to increase complexity rather than repeat elements, and deliver fully resolved outcomes that show sophisticated artistic thinking.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.