Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within printmaking practice
This standard asks you to create a sustained body of printmaking work that shows you understand and can use printmaking techniques and conventions in meaningful ways. You need to show systematic development of ideas—building on earlier work, refining your approach, and regenerating your concepts—to produce a final resolved outcome that demonstrates depth and coherence.
You establish a clear brief, analyse some artist models, generate original prints with adequate technical skill, and show some development across iterations, but your regeneration of ideas is limited and your approach may be narrow or repetitive.
You develop a purposeful brief with clear intentions, integrate artist research to extend your thinking, produce original prints with consistent personal style, use multiple printmaking methods proficiently, and systematically develop ideas through linked iterations that lead to refined, cohesive outcomes.
You create a focused brief with ambitious scope, synthesise artist research and conventions to generate original conceptually rich ideas, produce distinctive visual work with fluent technical control, develop ideas iteratively with evidence of reflection, regenerate imagery to increase complexity rather than reuse, and deliver fully resolved outcomes that demonstrate conceptual and technical sophistication.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.