GCE Art and Design 2015

Thinking critically about your work

The following questions will help you think critically about your work.
You could use them:
● before you start working – to help you organise your thoughts and ideas
● while you are working – to help you document your thought processes
and your decisions
● after you have finished your work – to help you evaluate the effectiveness
of what you have done and critically reflect on your work

You could choose to answer the questions directly in relation to individual

projects/tasks or in relation to whole components.
You could also use them indirectly, for example as prompts for the sorts of notes
and annotations to record in your sketchbooks, working logs, or written studies.
You do not have to use these questions, but they may provide you with an effective
way of thinking and organising your ideas.

Questions
1 What is the main idea you set out to communicate?
2 How did you come up with the idea?
3 Which artists / craftspeople / designers and / or contextual references did you
research to develop your idea and visual response?
4 Why did you choose to look at these particular artists / craftspeople / designers
and / or contextual references, and how did they influence your work?
5 How has your idea changed since you first started exploring it?
6 What decisions did you make and how did they affect your work as it
developed?
7 Which resources, media, materials, techniques and processes have you used?
How did you select them, and how do they help to communicate your idea?
8 What do you think is the most successful element or aspect of your work
overall?
9 What would element or aspect of your work would you most like to improve,
and how might you go about doing this in future?
10 How effectively do you think your final work communicates your idea? Explain
your answer.

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