Exploring migration through portraiture
National Portrait Gallery '...a gallery of original portraits, such portraits to consist as far as possible of those persons who are most honourably commemorated in British history as warriors or as statesmen, or in arts, in literature or in science'. Philip Henry Stanhope 5th Earl Stanhope, 1856
Whose nation? Ian Paisley Alex Salmond
The House of Commons, 1833
1896
to display portraits of the men and woman who have made and are making British history and culture to act as a national focus for the study and understanding of portraits and portraiture
Nelson Mandela
NPG 1 William Shakespeare, c1600-10
Tinie Tempah Marc Quinn
Peter Tatchell
How might portraiture enrich citizenship teaching?
Map to Curriculum Rights + Equalities Fairness + Justice Identity + Diversity Democracy + Government
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices Scan considering the obvious and the detail
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices Scan considering the obvious and the detail Notice pose, stance, gaze, expression
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices Scan considering the obvious and the detail Notice pose, stance, gaze, expression Background / foreground
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices Scan considering the obvious and the detail Notice pose, stance, gaze, expression Background / foreground Symbols
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices Scan considering the obvious and the detail Notice pose, stance, gaze, expression Background / foreground Symbols Colour / mood / atmosphere / lighting
How to read a portrait Consider artists choices Scan considering the obvious and the detail Notice pose, stance, gaze, expression Background / foreground Symbols Colour / mood / atmosphere / lighting Tone / line / form
Citizenship Themes / lines of enquiry Visual representation Life / achievements of the sitter The relationship between the two Selection and display
Themes Community Representations of Diversity Power
'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor) 1863
What is achievement? What is British? Who should be displayed? Who should decide? How relevant is the hang to your community? Who is missing?
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/creativeconnections/about.php
Portraits and place based learning Exploration of identity - historical, contemporary and local Portraiture making as an agent / vehicle for change
Map to Curriculum Rights + Equalities Fairness + Justice Identity + Diversity Democracy + Government
@NPGSchools Upcoming twitter tour Citizenship Provocations #FaceOfBritain Power -People -Fame -Self g.baldwin@mdx.ac.uk pcouch@npg.org.uk
Credits: National Portrait Gallery, London, unless otherwise stated All images not reproduced in this power point for copyright reasons have a URL link listed below beside their credit line so that you can easily find the image on line. Charles Stewart Parnell published by Ogden's cigarette card, published circa 1894-1907 - NPG x197005 Aneurin Bevan, by Peter Lambda 1945 NPG4993 Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, by Ben Gibson, 30 May 1982 Ben Gibson - NPG x139987 - http://bit.ly/1hnakeb Alex Salmond, by Gerard Burns Gerard M Burns - PG 3739 (National Galleries of Scotland) - http://bit.ly/1nph8y7 The House of Commons, 1833 by Sir George Hayter, 1833-1843 - NPG 54 - http://bit.ly/1lzocbn Nelson Mandelaby Jillian Edelstein, 6 February 1997 Jillian Edelstein / Camera Press - NPG x128760 http://bit.ly/1n7xr45 William Shakespeare associated with John Taylor circa 1600-1610 NPG1 King Henry VII by Unknown Netherlandish artist, 1505 - NPG 416 King Henry VIII; King Henry VII by Hans Holbein the Younger, circa 1536-1537 - NPG 4027 Queen Elizabeth I ('The Ditchley portrait') by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, circa 1592 - NPG 2561 The Execution of King Charles I after Unknown artist, 17th century - NPG D26372 King George III ('The French invasion; - or - John Bull, bombarding the bum-boats') by James Gillray, published 5 November 1793 - NPG D13016 Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd by Brendan Kelly, 2014 - NPG 6982 Simon Westonby Nicola Jane ('Nicky') Philipps, 2014 - NPG 6984 Mary Jane Seacole (née Grant) by Albert Charles Challen, 1869 - NPG 6856 Chevalier d'eon by Thomas Stewart, after Jean Laurent Mosnier, 1792 - NPG 6937 Tinie Tempah (Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu) by Nadav Kander, 2011 Nadav Kander; courtesy Flowers Galleries - NPG x134919 http://bit.ly/1npj35x Darcey Bussell by Allen Jones, 1994 - NPG 6252 Marc Quinn ('Self') by Marc Quinn, 2006 Marc Quinn - NPG 6863 http://bit.ly/1nt2e6o Peter Tatchell by Polly Borland, November 1999 Polly Borland - NPG x88486 http://bit.ly/1pooytg Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield by Tom Phillips, 1999-2000 - NPG 6526 Shami Chakrabarti by Gillian Wearing, 2011 - NPG 6923 Sir Tim Berners-Lee by Sean Henry, 2015 - NPG 6996 'The Secret of England's Greatness' (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the Audience Chamber at Windsor) by Thomas Jones Barker, circa 1863 - NPG 4969 Syran father Laith Majid (far right) poses with his his wife, Nada Adel, their sons Moustafa, 18, Ahmed, 17, and Taha, nine and their seven-year-old daughter Nour after starting their new life in Germany http://dailym.ai/1n7zxkz I am an immigrant posters http://www.iamanimmigrant.net/migrant-heroes Act for the Act posters http://actfortheact.uk/ ACT Teaching Citizenship journal Issue 42/ Autumn 2015 http://www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/journals http://www.npg.org.uk/learning/digital#citizenship