Self Portrait UK 14-19 touring exhibition 2005

10.12.2004 - 31.01.2006

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester / United Kingdom
National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff / United Kingdom
Peterborough Digital Arts, Museum & Gallery, Petersborough / United Kingdom
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland / United Kingdom
The New Art Gallery, Walsall / United Kingdom

Press text
Self Portrait UK 14-19, a national Channel 4 campaign, presents 100 self-portraits by young people from all over the UK who have found distinctive ways to describe who they are, what they want to say and how they want to be seen. Behind each of these images and statements are many different identities, stories and cultures reflecting the diversity and imagination of teenage Britain today.

A host of celebrities have also taken part, including a DJ Trevor Nelson, poet and writer Benjamin Zephaniah, principal ballerina Darcey Bussell, and 19 year old England Under 21 footballer Steven Taylor....