Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop ideas for glazing ceramic forms
- Research glazing ideas from historical and contemporary references
- Research, adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Evaluate the potential for new and original approaches, including original glazes
- Refine ideas through play, experimentation and testing
- Modify and test existing glaze recipes
- Investigate and respond to safety issues for glaze work
- Modify and test existing glaze recipes on selected clay bodies, in a variety of firing conditions
- Select and use ingredients and materials for glaze making for different purposes based on selected recipes
- Develop and test glazes on various clay bodies and in various kiln firings
- Achieve different effects through exploration and experimentation with a broad range of advanced glazing techniques, tools and equipment
- Label and store glazes safely
- Formulate original glaze recipes
- Create a body of glazed work
- Use different glaze application techniques and safely modify application according to effect required
- Decorate surfaces with glaze using methodologies, techniques and tools selected from own experimentation
- Evaluate and respond to potential for changes in application methods
- Fire the glazed form at the appropriate temperature and kiln atmosphere
- Modify glazes to correct faults and technical problems
- Maintain accurate records and data
- Evaluate glaze work
- Evaluate glaze work from an aesthetic and functional perspective
- Evaluate development of own glaze work with others and seek feedback
- Reflect on the particular ways that experimentation with different work has informed own practice
- Identify ways in which technique may be further developed as part of a professional ceramics practice and build ideas into future work