Meet the artist 2008 - 2009
A unique opportunity to meet one of the Gallery's exhibiting artists
Students and teachers will be given free access to the artist through an exclusive presentation of their work. Participants will have the opportunity to ask vital questions about the content, process and approach to the art work and their collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery.
Andrew Tift (b.1968) has exhibited many times in the BP Portrait Award, winning third prize in 1999 with his portrait of Tony Benn, commissioned by the House of Commons Works of Art Committee. He won the BP Travel Award in 1994. In 1995 the resulting exhibition Sayonara Pet: From Sunderland to Tokyo at the Nissan Car Factories toured from the National Portrait Gallery to Aberdeen Art Gallery and Walsall Museum and Art Gallery. Andrew graduated in 1992 from the University of Central England with a Masters degree in illustration. He has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions in the UK, Japan and France.
Andrew Tift will be giving a talk about his involvement with the BP Portrait Awards on 15,16 & 17 June 2009.
She and Me
by Timothy Hyman
© Timothy Hyman
Timothy Hyman is a professional artist and writer on art who has curated exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery and Tate in London. His paintings are held in public collections including those of The British Museum and the Government Art Collection. Hyman has had numerous solo exhibitions and exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery Award in 1981 and 1987. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Barbican Art Gallery, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. This portrait shows the artist with his wife, Judith Ravenscroft, and was inspired by a self-portrait etching by Rembrandt. Tim Hyman was one of the two BP Travel Award 2007 winners. The Award, which looks to offer artists the opportunity to experience working in a different environment, in Britain or abroad, on a project related to portraiture, is open to all artists selected for the exhibition.
Tim Hyman will be discussing his involvement with the BP Travel Award 2007 on 7 & 8 July 2009.
Akram Khan
by Darvish Fakhr, 2008
Darvish Fakhr trained at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He has exhibited in the BP Portrait Award in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006. In 2004 he won the BP Travel Award and used the opportunity to paint portraits in Iran.
Darvish Fakhr will talk about his commissioned portrait of the contemporary dancer Akram Khan on 14 &15 October 2008.
Image, Identity & the Artist
David King
by Tanya Raabe
This year, our new Secondary Programme offers sessions around Image and Identity. To explore these further, we have expanded our Meet the Artist scheme to accommodate and explore identity in a wider context, investigating issues such as diversity and cultural representation through the experience of individual artists and their work. This academic year we will be inviting a variety of artists to present, share and discuss their approach to image and identity within their own lives and working practice. Suitable for KS3 to 5, it will cover aspects of Citizenship, Art and Design, PSHE, Sociology, History, English Language, Philosophy and Politics.
As well as responding and questioning the artist, students will be encouraged to access the collections and use the Portrait Explorer our interactive digital guide to the collection, to expand their ideas for further classroom study and to debate and illustrate individual responses to Image and Identity.
Martin Louis Amis
by Angela Gorgas
1979
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Students and teachers will be given free access to the artist through an exclusive presentation of her work. Participants will have the opportunity to ask vital questions about the content, process and approach to the pieces in this unique display.
Wednesday 20 May 2009, 11.00 - 12.00
Gorgas started taking photographs as a teenager. She went on to study graphic design and photography at Hornsey College of Art and after graduation was recruited by renowned designer, David Hillman to work in the art department at Nova magazine. A painter as well as a photographer, Gorgas's paintings have been exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Mall Galleries.
Tanya Raabe will be giving a talk about her Who's Who project exploring disability aesthetics and visual language, in which she created an expressive collection of portraits of new and emerging disabled artists.
3 February 2009: 11.30 - 12.30 and 2.30 - 3.30
For more information about the Who's Who project and other works by the artist, log on to www.tanyaraabe.co.uk
Booking Tel: 020 7312 2483
