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I SEE YOU LIKE THIS

an experience for children and their parents by Jessica Wilson

Fri, Apr 04 — Sat, Apr 05, 2025

About the event

How does your child see you? Become the subject of your child’s imagination with an artwork that uses your face as their canvas!

With our ever-growing appetite to document our lives through photos and selfies, children are so often the reluctant subjects of their parent’s cameras; asked to smile, look natural, look that way, and come in closer.

I See you Like This turns the camera back and allows children to see their parents as subjects through the lens of their own imaginations.

The 45-minute experience begins with questions to the child artist about what kind of person their parent is. Children are given permission to observe and portray their parent, while parents are able to experience being ‘seen’ by their child. Each child artist chooses an object, which best represents this adult subject, before art directing a creative portrait directly onto their adult’s face! Each artwork is captured by a professional photographer and becomes part of a public exhibition.

I See You Like This is an acclaimed interactive art experience created by Jessica Wilson with designer Matilda Woodroofe to celebrate the fascinating relationship that is at the heart of individual identity – between parent and child. It has toured Australia and Europe amassing a collection of nearly 2000 portraits!

WEBSITE:
Jessicawilson.com.au

FACEBOOK:
Jessica Wilson

Important information

  • Please note that this experience works best for one child participant, age 6-12, and one adult caregiver.
  • Each adult will have only one portrait captured. If you have multiple children that would like to participate, please either sign up with multiple adults so you can still get the intended one-on-one experience, or include multiple children in your reservation. Please do not sign one adult up for multiple time slots with multiple children.
  • Each artwork is captured by a professional photographer and becomes part of a public exhibition. This public exhibition will hang in our art gallery this fall. After the exhibit ends, your family will be able to take the portrait home.

Running time

45 Minute Sessions

GALLERY

A woman sits against a dark background as her child decorates her with various props
A father lets his daughter decorate him with various props
A child stands in front of their parent, who is seated. An adult assistant stands behind the parent, helping to achieve the child's artistic vision.
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A man with a baseball cap and glasses, wearing a blue t-shirt, poses with both hands up and curled. He has stickers on his face and is holding a feather. />
A parent with a fish on her head, a gold helmet, and a bottle of hand sanitizer, is against a dark background. />
A parent with a wooden spoon stuck to his head and multiple stickers on his face, and a small globe stuck to the side of his face, against a dark background. />
A parent with multiple props, including an elaborate hat and a beaded necklace, sits against a dark background. />
A parent with multiple props, including a feather boa and a mustache, stands against a dark background. />
Artplay
Jessica Wilson. Art for People and Places.
This project was seeded by City of Melbourne through ArtPlay's New Ideas Lab. City of Melbourne.
Australian Government. Creative Australia.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.