January 7, 2021

Big Voices

Today I visited the Big Voices exhibition at the Queensland State Library https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/bigvoices. 

The exhibited artwork was created by children in Australia, Vietnam and China collected by Dr Barbara Piscitelli in her Children's Art Archive. There were a number of correlations with the Children Draw Talking project we undertook between 2009-2013.

Big Voices celebrates this courage and creativity of children sharing their stories through art.

Dr Piscitelli's archive is available here: https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/guide/7116/details

There are collections about children's rights and other collections titled "Children's Picture Diaries" that depicts "children’s ideas of who they are, where they live and what they like to do" https://collections.slq.qld.gov.au/guide/7116/details#SR00007116-13


 This exhibit reminded me of our Children Draw Talking research: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/search?q=Children+draw+talking