Portraiture: Image and Identity
October – December 2020
This block of 5 weekly workshop tutorials will explore the following:
- Exploring Self-Portraiture from past to present. Origins and developments.
- Why Do Artists make Self – Portraits?
- How would you define yourself? How would others identify you? What are your identifying features? What Symbols would you use to represent yourself?
- Discuss ‘alternative’ self Portraits – how you would like people to perceive you. Ego, Celebrity and Icons.
- How to “read “a Portrait, exploring narrative through Identity. Analysis of the face, body and personality, pose, colours, ‘coded’ clothing, symbolism and context.
- Exploring the voice of the artist and the sitters’ perspective. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp19004#Link
- Stuart Pearson Wright Talking about doing a portrait of John Hurt. People & portraits – National Portrait Gallery
- 100 Portraits on Twitter & Instagram
Judith Abubakar
Marina Devlin
Fiona Donald
Jonathan McKinstry
Cameron Morgan
Joseph Sharpe
