Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop ideas for thrown ceramics
- Evaluate work opportunities offered by thrown ceramics
- Research ideas for thrown work from historical and contemporary references
- Research, adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Refine ideas through play, experimentation and testing
- Create designs for thrown forms that meet the needs of the market or design brief
- Determine and establish safe work conditions for throwing
- Throw, turn and finish ceramic items
- Determine suitable throwing methods for different items
- Explore and experiment with a broad range of materials, tools and equipment and advanced techniques, to make thrown ceramic forms
- Throw individual items and sets to appropriate design requirements in relation to form and function
- Define ceramic forms using appropriate assembly finishing techniques
- Trim and prepare articles for further decoration
- Refine throwing technique
- Use the wheel with increasing confidence and skill
- Develop technique to professional level through application of time and practice
- Show command of thrown technique within a coherent body of ceramic work
- Identify and resolve technical problems in throwing projects based on developing expertise
- Use ongoing experimentation with technique to refine ideas
- Develop own ways of working with the throwing process to create individual style
- Evaluate own thrown work