Year 9 Visual Art

The Year 9 Visual Art course focuses primarily on developing and extending students' drawing and mixed media skills using a range of techniques and processes. Students will also investigate Maori and Celtic Art from the past and present, developing their knowledge and identifying their contexts in which they were made, viewed and valued.

Students will investigate traditional forms of Maori art such as flax weaving (raranga harakeke), taniko and tukutuku pattern, koru and kowhaiwhai pattern, pounamu, bone carving, carving patterns and korowai cloaks. This theme is extended to incorporate Celtic Art and NZ native birds. Students will use a range of media to develop their practical skills, to enable the development of their own ideas to produce final artwork.

At the end of this course students will have completed a 'Woven Art and Maori Cloak' unit, with an assessment.