These short interviews with artists and curators focus on questions that have emerged from About Face symposia, such as identity, vulnerability, authenticity, empathy, use of photography, archival inhabitation of the body, ownership and why, when portraiture continues to play an important role in the development of narrative traditions, it is mostly absent in art school curricula in the UK.
The films were made with the support of Camberwell Chelsea Wimbledon’s Graduate School, University of the Arts London.
Essay: Interrogating Appearances – The Drawn Self by Anita Taylor
Essay: Now You See Me: Self-representation in the work of Charlotte Hodes by Hannah Westley
Essay: Models and Muses by Colin Wiggins
Essay: Portraiture and ownership… by Ian King
Essay: Face Value: Portraiture and the Site of the Self by Isabel Seligman
Essay: Facing legacies: what traces might an artworks representation expose? by Jo Melvin
Essay: Collected and Possessed by Mark Fairnington
Essay: The Naked Portrait by Rab MacGibbon
Essay: Creating New Public Portraits by Sandy Nairne
Essay: The Inframince by Sarah Jaffray
Essay: Whose Face Is It? by Stephen Farthing