Dialogues with artists: Analysing children’s self-portraits

Our three-year research project, into the creative arts and inclusive pedagogies at Holly Tree Primary school, began because we heard the headteacher talking about a self-portrait project that Year 5 children had done. We were interested in the idea of self-portraits because they seemed to afford children interesting opportunities to explore questions of identity. In this chapter, we tell the story of what we learnt about working with, on and around these self-portraits.