Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals

Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals create visual two- and three-dimensional concepts and forms through painting, drawing, carving, sculpting, modelling, printmaking, video, multimedia, found objects, ephemera, soundscapes and other media to communicate concepts and ideas.

What the job involves

• Conceiving and developing ideas, designs and styles for paintings, drawings, pottery pieces and sculptures

• Arranging objects, positioning models, and selecting landscapes and other visual forms according to chosen subject matter

• Selecting artistic media, method and materials

• Applying media to surfaces using appropriate techniques

• Moulding clay into functional and artistic articles by wheel-throwing, moulding and hand-building

• Mixing glazing materials and applying glazes to dried pottery by dipping and painting

• Placing finished and decorated pieces in kilns

• Sketching designs of proposed sculptures, and making wax and plaster models

• Devising forms from metal using welding and metalworking equipment, and from stone using masonry tools

• Carving and forming materials to desired shape using hand and power tools