Here are some portraits that I drew on trips to the Villawood detention centre with the Refugee Art Project. The group was founded in late 2010 to provide art classes for asylum seekers in detention and to display their work in public exhibitions. The idea is to allow detainees to express themselves through the medium of art, and to convey something of their experiences to the Australian community. Amongst our participants are a large number of people from Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, who are some the largest groups in our detention centres. Their works vary across diverse genres of art, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and artworks made from found objects, including food!
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