| This year’s Headspace
exhibition Facing Memory: Headspace 4 provides us with valuable insights
into the thoughts, creative processes and art-making practices of secondary
students from Year 7 to Year 12 from sixty-two schools in the Australian
Capital Territory, regional New South Wales and Victoria. Portraiture makes
a powerful visual statement, no less so when it is made by secondary school
students.
At the National Portrait Gallery we are committed to education as a social
process which enables young people to engage with themselves and their
worlds. Through our collaboration with art teachers the Gallery offers
students the opportunity to realise their own unique capabilities through
portraiture as a valuable art form for the expression of ideas. Exploring
the theme of memory students demonstrate a diverse range of responses
through the concept of portraiture. We compliment the students and teachers
who have contributed to producing the artworks.
Andrew Sayers, Director
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