Meet the artist 2009-2010
Meet the Artist is a unique opportunity to connect with practising artists who are associated with the National Portrait Gallery through exhibitions, commissions or other links. Students and teachers are given free access to the artist through an exclusive presentation of their work, and the opportunity to enter into a conversation about the content, process and approach to the art work and their collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery.
Mrs Clarke’s Church Hats
by Elizabeth Hingley, 2009
© Elizabeth Hingley
Meet the Artist: Elizabeth Hingley
13 January 2010
11:00 – 12:00
A unique oppurtunity for young people, students and teachers to hear photographer Elizabeth Hingley discuss her practice, processes and her work in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize 2009.
The session is suitable for KS3 to 5 and cover aspects of Citizenship, Art and Design, PSHE, Sociology, History, English Language, Philosophy and Politics.
Advanced booking recommended. To book call 020 7312 2483 or email education@npg.org.uk
tallo #1 (detail)
by Faisal Abdu’Allah and the Chasing Mirrors Collective
© National Portrait Gallery, London and the Chasing Mirrors Collective
Meet the Artist: Faisal Abdu’Allah
24 November
11:00 – 12:00
Chasing Mirrors is an exhibition by the contemporary artist Faisal Abdu’Allah in collaboration with young people from Arabic-speaking communities based in West London.
His work primarily evolves from the interface of photography, the printed image and installation. His practice constantly repositions values and ideologies relating to issues of representation.
This free event offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to meet the artist and discuss his artistic practice and approaches. Suitable for KS3 – KS5 student Citizenship, Art and Design, PSHE, Sociology, History, English Language, Philosophy and Politics, Creative and Media Diploma.
Holly came from Miami F.L.A., hitch-hiked her way across the USA
Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs, and then he was a she
She says ‘hey babe, take a walk on the wild side’.
‘Walk on the Wild Side’, Lou Reed (1972)
Coming up:
Former BP Awards candidate Sadie Lee will be discussing her own painting practice, including her sometimes controversial choice of sitter, on 14 October from 11.00 - 12.00.
Sadie Lee's imaginative paintings were first bought to wider public attention when her double portrait 'ERECT' was selected for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in the BP Portrait Award 1992. The image - two severe looking women sitting with arms interlocked glaring back at the viewer - was produced as a poster to advertise the annual BP Award, and within weeks all 5,000 copies had completely sold out. The same year Sadie captured media attention as organiser and curator of the ambitious project 'Exposing Ourselves'. The aim of the London-based show was to bring together the diverse talents of over sixty international artists. As well as showing at the National Portrait Gallery, Sadie has had several solo shows nationally and abroad. These include 'Venus Envy' at Manchester City Art Gallery and 'A Dying Art - Ladies of the Burlesque', an exhibition resulting from winning the BP Travel Award which then toured the UK for a year after showing at the National Portrait Gallery. Sadie has also had an exhibition titled 'Don't Look' at the Gallery of Modern Art, Slovenia where she was selected as the British representative in the international contemporary art festival.
In October 2006, Sadie Lee spent time with Holly Woodlawn, one of the last surviving members of Andy Warhol's ‘Factory' inner circle and the star of cult films Trash and Women in Revolt. Born Harold Ajzenberg in Puerto Rico, 1946, she took the name ‘Holly' from the heroine of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. Sadie spent every day for a week in Holly's Los Angeles apartment, making studies of Holly as the basis for a series of oil paintings. The paintings show Holly in all her incarnations, with and without make-up, wig and frock. These are not just pictures of a man dressing as a woman; Holly is both male and female and neither. She is, above all, a Superstar.
Watch this space for more details on the 2009 - 2010 Meet the Artist programme.
