Major Group: 2 - Professionals
Sub-Major Group: 21 - Arts and Media Professionals
Minor Group: 211 - Arts Professionals
Unit Group: 2114 - Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals
Description
Conceives and creates three-dimensional forms to communicate impressions and ideas by carving or modelling materials, such as wood, stone, clay and metal, or assembling found and manufactured materials. This occupation requires high levels of creative talent or personal commitment and interest as well as, or in place of, formal qualifications or experience.
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Specialisations
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Unit Group 2114: Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals
Description
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.
Indicative Skill Level 1
The occupations Painter (Visual Arts) and Sculptor in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications and experience outlined below.
In Australia:
Bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1)
In New Zealand:
Bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1)
In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification.
The occupations Potter or Ceramic Artist and Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals nec in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications and experience outlined below.
In Australia:
Bachelor degree or higher qualification. At least five years of relevant experience may substitute for the formal qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1)
In New Zealand:
NZQF Diploma, or at least three years of relevant experience (ANZSCO Skill Level 2)
In some instances relevant experience and/or on-the-job training may be required in addition to the formal qualification.
- 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
- 211411: Painter (Visual Arts)
- 211412: Potter or Ceramic Artist
- 211413: Sculptor
- 211499: Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals nec
Unit Group 2114: Visual Arts and Crafts Professionals
Type | Weekly Earnings | Annual Salary | Average Age |
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Males | not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated | | not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated |
Females | no observations recorded | | no observations recorded |
Persons | not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated | | not available for publication but included in totals where applicable, unless otherwise indicated |
Complete list of Average Salary 2021 by occupation
Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013, ANZSCO - Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations, 2013, Version 1.3, cat. no. 1220.0, https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/1220.0