Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals

Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals create visual two- and three-dimensional concepts and forms through painting, drawing, carving, sculpting, modelling, printmaking, video, multimedia, found objects, ephemera, soundscapes and other media to communicate concepts and ideas.

• Conceiving and developing ideas, designs and styles for paintings, drawings, pottery pieces and sculptures
• Arranging objects, positioning models, and selecting landscapes and other visual forms according to chosen subject matter
• Selecting artistic media, method and materials
• Applying media to surfaces using appropriate techniques
• Moulding clay into functional and artistic articles by wheel-throwing, moulding and hand-building
• Mixing glazing materials and applying glazes to dried pottery by dipping and painting
• Placing finished and decorated pieces in kilns
• Sketching designs of proposed sculptures, and making wax and plaster models
• Devising forms from metal using welding and metalworking equipment, and from stone using masonry tools
• Carving and forming materials to desired shape using hand and power tools