9CMA

Year 9 Contemporary Māori Art (THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL FOR 2024, PLEASE CHOOSE ANOTHER COURSE)

Course Description

This course introduces and builds confidence when using Contemporary Māori Artist models. Students will use a wide range of art-making media to explore themes of identity in Aotearoa. Students will take inspiration from our WGHS Whare, their pepeha and surrounding whenua, and explore art making practices within a modern learning context.

Learning Opportunities

In this course you will need to:

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  • Creativity: You will explore a range of contemporary art making techniques and media, and apply these in the style of Māori artist models.
  • Explore your own pepeha as a base for generating imagery. 

  • Visual Literacy: Learn to use Māori images/symbols and patterns to describe and express your own ideas about identity

  • Contemporary Kowhaiwhai and taniko pattern design.

  • Critical Thinking: Use Artist models and knowledge about your whanau/ancestry to create your own designs and outcomes.
  • Effective Drawing and Painting and Carving techniques .

  • Time Management: Develop time management skills to meet deadlines in a creative field.
  • Extension into Print-making, Stencilling, Sculpture or Digital outcomes.

  • Produce quality finished outcomes to take home and share with your whanau. 


Resources Required

All resources are supplied for use in class.