Learning by Design

HELEN GRAS

Artist, researcher and pre-service teacher.

A teaching and learning resource for secondary Visual Arts and Design.

Abstract painting in black, warm grey and muted red, with broad gestural brushstrokes and scraped-back layers — **Studio painting**, 2026. Creative practice.

01 → 03

MAKING AS A WAY OF THINKING

Through creative practice, students learn to read the visual world around them, recognise how their own experiences shape what they see, and build judgement and agency they can carry beyond the art room.

01

ForStudents

SUBJECTS, STUDIO PRACTICE, ARTISTS + ARTWORKS, CREATIVE THINKING

Studio desk with charcoal, ink blot and a small creature sketch — **Fragment**, 2026. Charcoal, ink and graphite on paper. Studio collection.

Art Creative Practice Planner 3|4 on a dark wooden table with handwritten notes and a chair in the foreground — **Art Creative Practice Planner 3|4**, 2026. Annotated planner

02

ForTeachers

CURRICULUM, STUDIO PRACTICE, ASSESSMENT, PEDAGOGY, ART + SOURCES

03

Professional

Evidence, VIT, APST, placements, development

Hand-drawn ink registration mark: a circle with crosshairs on textured paper — **Evidence mark**, 2026. Ink notation on paper.