Behjat Omer Abdulla, an artist and asylum seeker from Iraq worked with Year 9 students, who have chosen art as an option, at Painsley recently. They spent 2 days drawing portraits of themselves and others in the group, investigating the theme of identity. They were each given a number and experienced what it must have been like to be considered, not as a person with his or her own identity and personality, but purely as a statistic.
The students thoroughly enjoyed the 2 days and made exceptional progress with drawing using graphite powder, producing amazing results.
