The Headspace Project The nineth Headspace exhibition will be held in late 2009 following the National Portrait Gallery's relocation to its new purpose built location. The National Portrait Gallery is dedicated to this dynamic project and the collaborative working partnerships between school-based art educators and National Portrait Gallery Education staff that have fostered valuable learning opportunities for students. We are keen to consolidate existing, and build new partnerships with secondary art educators and students around Australia. Our Headspace exhibitions demonstrate a capacity to forge dynamic and vigorous art practices in the field of portraiture at the secondary school level. PHILOSOPHY Underpinning the Headspace exhibition program is the belief that portraiture is a valuable, potent, and pertinent art form through which secondary students can explore aspects of themselves, their communities, and the world as it is, or might be. Art production, particularly portrait art production, gives students a sense of agency, of being able to make things that matter to them happen in the real world. Art opens up dialogue between individuals and their worlds. The Headspace exhibitions showcase the portrait art of secondary school students from Year 7 to Year 12. The National Portrait Gallery is interested in the ways in which students explore portraiture at all levels of learning in the secondary school. Each year students are invited to explore the Headspace theme and to submit self-portraits to the National Portrait Gallery for the exhibition selection process. For further information on the Headspace Project, please contact the Gallery:
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The Headspace Project
