Primary
In this video, students are invited to respond to a clay sculpture, Not titled (Blue QKA SLR), 2013, created by Melbourne-based artist, Alan Constable. Constable is an artist who lives with impaired vision. He has followed his passion for cameras, stemming from an early age, and uses them as inspiration throughout his artmaking practice. The detailed clay work made by Constable, paired with functional real-life inspirations, provides a visually rich starting point for students to develop an understanding of comparison and contrast. Through this resource, students are also encouraged to consider what it means to be passionate, what their own personal limitations and strengths are and how they can develop these into strategies and tools to help them achieve their goals.
To turn on captions for this video, click on the ‘CC/Subtitles’ icon located at the bottom right of the video and select ‘English CC’.
The accompanying PDF below offers support for teachers and parents who are empowering young people to actively engage with Constable’s Not titled (Blue QKA SLR), explore ideas and establish connections to their own lives and to each other.
Learning Objectives
- Observe and describe similar and different qualities in two or more objects.
- Identify and describe areas of personal interest.
- Identify their own strengths and limitations.
- Develop strategies to improve outcomes in areas of limitation.
Links to the Victorian Curriculum
Visual Arts
- Explore visual conventions and use materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to particular art forms, and to make artworks (VCAVAV026)
- Explore visual arts practices as inspiration to create artworks that express different ideas and beliefs (VCAVAE029)
Personal and Social Capability
- Identify personal strengths and select personal qualities that could be further developed (VCPSCSE017)