Self Portraits

•Why do artists portray themselves in their

work?

What aspects of themselves are they communicating to the viewer?

•What materials and methods do

they use to create their art works?

Gavin Turk

Epiphany 1992

•Where is this mirror hung? Why?•What did the artist see when he signed the mirror?

•What are these objects?

Antonia Low

Lieblingsteile (favourite things) 2000

•Does the title help us to under-stand the picture?

•What do our clothes say about us?

•Who do you think these boots belong to?

•What do you think they are made out of?

•Do you think they were easy to make?

•What do they tell us about the artist?

Sarah Lucas

Concrete Boots 98-99 1999

Michael Landy

Breakdown Inventory 2001

•How long do you think it would take you to write a list of everything you own?

•What do our belongings not say about us?

Tom Friedman

Secrets 1997

•This writing is too small to read so we can’t find out what the secrets are...

•How can secrets be self-portraits?

•Does it matter that this does not look like art?

Andy Goldsworthy

Rainshadow Series - Clu de Barles, France 1999

•How do you think this picture was created?

•What does this image remind you of?

•What does this tell us about the artist?

•Could you create a self-portrait like this?

•Is this a self-portrait or a landscape?

•Look at the tree, what can this image tell us about the artist?

Sam Taylor-Wood

Self Portrait as a Tree 2000

Tracey Emin

It’s what I’d like to be 1999

•If you made a portrait of yourself as something else, what would it be?

•Can dreams and wishes be part of self-portraiture?