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PAST EXHIBITION ARCHIVE
The Art Establishment:
Photographs by Lucy Dickens
10 September 2002 - 2 February 2003
Room 37a
This is a record of the great and the good in the art establishment
at the beginning of the new millennium. It celebrates the contribution
of the postwar generation,
epitomized by the late Sir Ernst Gombrich, who brought new levels
of academic rigour to art history, as well as the achievements
of the current generation. Some are distinguished by their leadership
of major national institutions; all are distinguished by their
scholarship. Some are famous; others are unsung heroes. The portraits,
formal and considered, reflect the stature of their subjects.
The settings, chosen by the sitters, whether at home, or at their
place of work, reflect their passion.
The original list of sitters was compiled in discussion with
my father, Sir Oliver Millar, former Director of the Royal Collection,
and Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Gallery
and former Director of the National Portrait Gallery. It grew
through the further suggestions of the sitters themselves. I
am immensely grateful to those who agreed to sit for me, despite
the pressures on their time, and in some cases, old age or infirmity.
I was met unfailingly with courtesy (and often fish pie).
Lucy Dickens, August 2002
Lucy Dickens took a BA in Photography
at Central London Polytechnic and has combined her career in
photography with spells of teaching. Recent projects include
an artist residency for Southern Arts in Windsor in 2000. In
2002 Dickens worked on the Arne Jacobsen retrospective for the
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, photographing St Catherine's College
for the exhibition and publication.
The photographer is about to embark on a collaboration with Plantlife,
the wild plant conservation charity, to photograph leading environmentalists.
This portfolio of 42 photographs is being shown in two parts;
part one runs from 10 September until 8 December, 2002 and part
two from 10 December until 2 February, 2003. The portraits were
taken with a Bronica camera on 21/4 inch colour negative film
and the c-type photographs were hand-printed by the artist.
National Portrait Gallery
opening times
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Saturday, Sunday: 10am - 6pm
Late Opening Thursday, Friday: 10am - 9pm
Recorded information: 020 7312 2463
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