Athletes and Olympians
- Partnership exhibition
Kelly Holmes
by Harry Borden
22 February 2005
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To coincide with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012, this exhibition will bring together a selection of portraits of great British sportsmen and women of recent years.
Drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection, Athletes and Olympians will feature portraits of well-known sporting stars, many of whom have won medals at previous Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Highlights of the exhibition will include photographic portraits of Olympic gold medalists Dame Kelly Holmes and Sebastian Coe, and boxing world champion Amir Khan. Also included in the exhibition will be a digital portrait of award-winning swimmer Duncan Goodhew, a series of 24 drawings of Sir Steve Redgrave by renowned artist Dryden Goodwin and Sam Taylor-Wood’s video portrait of David Beckham sleeping.
Related sitters
- Harold Maurice Abrahams
- Steven James ('Steve') Backley
- Sir Roger Bannister
- Herbert Roper Barrett
- David Robert Joseph Beckham
- Roger Anthony Black
- Lillian Board
- Sir Christopher John Chataway
- Linford Christie
- Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe
- (Magdalena) Cecilia Colledge
- Sir Henry Cooper
- Stephen ('Steve') Cram
- Christopher Colin Dean
- Marlon Devonish
- David George Brownlow Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter
- Kitty Godfree
- Duncan Alexander Goodhew
- Carys Davina ('Tanni') Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson
- Sally Gunnell
- Rob Hayles
- Dame Kelly Holmes
- Sir Christopher Andrew ('Chris') Hoy
- Colin Ray Jackson
- Amir Khan
- Debbie Knox
- Denise Lewis
- Fiona MacDonald
- Craig MacLean
- Paul Manning
- Rhona Martin
- Adrian David Moorhouse
- Margaret Morton
- Chris Newton
- Tushar Patel
- Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent
- Paula Radcliffe
- Janice Rankin
- Sir Steven Geoffrey Redgrave
- Theresa Ione ('Tessa') Sanderson
- Bryan Steel
- Edgar Syers
- Daley Thompson
- Jayne Torvill
- David Andrew Wilkie
Related artists
- Anderson & Low
- Peter Andrews
- Richard Bailey
- Bassano
- Michael Birt
- Harry Borden
- David Buckland
- Central Press
- Ernest Clarence Elliott
- Elliott & Fry
- Dryden Goodwin
- Marty St James
- Trevor Leighton
- Jorge ('J.S.') Lewinski
- Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield
- Eamonn McCabe
- Niall McDiarmid
- Alistair Morrison
- Tim O'Sullivan
- Wolfgang Rattay
- Sheila Rock
- Sam Taylor-Wood
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