Resources

Seeing Me Seeing You

Activity Pack

Our photographic portraits activity pack features lots of fun activities to do at school and home. Be inspired by the photographic portraits to try drawing, writing, role playing and making photographs.

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Healthcare Heroes

Activities for children and families inspired by three healthcare heroes from our Collection.

Learn together

Mindful Drawing

Take 5 minutes out of your day to relax and focus on a mindful drawing activity.

Start drawing

Hold Still

Key stage 1-5

Teachers and pupils are invited to engage with the stories in the Hold Still digital exhibition, reflect on their own experience of lockdown, and respond creatively by making portrait photographs. The resource includes discussion points and practical activities accessible for children of all ages and abilities.

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Family Activities: Playful Portraits

Draw and make while discovering more about the Gallery’s Collection and these brilliant people.

Get creative

BP Next Generation 2020

These short films made by artists offer ideas, advice and skills-sharing for making portraits. Follow the step by step guides to build confidence in a range of drawing and painting techniques.

Make Art

Art

Investigate and study a variety of portraits in different media from our collection through a series of resources organized thematically. Art techniques, Image and Identity, Portrait Photography, the Practice of Portraiture and Webquests.

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History

Discover more about our collection and learn to read portraits as historical evidence.

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Literacy

Discover the faces of poets working today. Explore how photography and portraiture can enhance and shape poetry learning.

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Citizenship

Discover ideas and lines of enquiry for how portraiture can support citizenship teaching in your classroom.

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