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The Gallery's Press Office handles enquiries from national and international media. This service enables you to access press releases and download high-resolution images to accompany your stories.
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The Press Office supplies images that are directly promotional to the Gallery's exhibitions, displays and public programme. If you are looking for an image from the Gallery's Collection to accompany a story that is not directly promotional to the Gallery, you will need to contact the National Portrait Gallery's Picture Library on: picturelibrary@npg.org.uk.
For all Press Office enquiries please contact: Neil Evans, Senior Press Officer, Tel 020 7312 2452 or email nevans@npg.org.uk, or Helen Corcoran, Communications Assistant, Tel 020 7321 6610 or email hcorcoran@npg.org.uk
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BERN SCHWARTZ: PORTRAITS OF THE 1970s (11 Jul 2008 - 4 Jan 2009) Read press release | View images A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will show a selection of one of the biggest-ever gifts to the Gallery, 140 of the most iconic photographs of famous 20th century British subjects. The photographs are by Bern Schwartz (1914-1978), a Californian who turned to photography in his early sixties after a successful career in business. Taken between 1975 and 1978 they include portraits of Margaret Thatcher, Rudolf Nureyev, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Lord Denning, the Prince of Wales, A J Ayer, Tony Benn, Zandra Rhodes and Twiggy. |
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WYNDHAM LEWIS PORTRAITS (3 Jul 2008 - 19 Oct 2008) Read press release | View images An important new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, will show the striking portraits of the great British modernist artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), bringing together for the first time a unique visual record of some of the most important cultural figures of the first half of the twentieth century. |
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EAMONN MCCABE: ARTISTS AND THEIR STUDIOS (16 Jun 2008 - 19 Oct 2008) Read press release | View images Providing us with rare insights into what are usually intensely private realms, photographer Eamonn McCabe has produced an extensive portfolio of portraits of writers’ rooms and artists’ studios. For admirers of their work, these glimpses into private working lives are a revelation – an apparently erratic author’s study is immaculate, sketches on the walls of artists’ studios provide invaluable insight into their working practice. The portraits have been and continue to be published weekly in the Guardian Saturday Review, where they reach a wide public. |
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35-YEAR-OLD LONDON ARTIST WINS BP PORTRAIT AWARD WITH LARGE-SCALE PAINTING OF HIS GIRLFRIEND (12 Jun 2008 - 14 Sep 2008) Read press release | View images ON MONDAY 16 JUNE the winner of the BP Portrait Award 2008 was announced by Ian Hislop at the National Portrait Gallery. In a record-breaking year for entries from non-UK artists, the prestigious first prize was won by 35-year-old London artist Craig Wylie. His winning portrait, K (oil on canvas, 2100 x 1650 mm), is an epic study of his girlfriend Katherine Raw based on sittings at his Hackney Wick studio. Craig wins £25,000 and a commission, at the National Portrait Gallery Trustees’ discretion, worth £4,000. |
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JASON BROOKS: PAUL NURSE AND OTHER WORKS (23 May 2008 - 1 Oct 2008) Read press release | View images The National Portrait Gallery is delighted to announce the unveiling of its latest commission, a portrait of the Nobel Prize winning scientist, Sir Paul Nurse, by acclaimed British artist Jason Brooks. The painting, a large-scale black and white close-up of the scientist’s face, cropped to give a cinematic effect, shows every pore, every follicle, every trace of time worn into the human face. This is the largest painting in such a realist style that the National Portrait Gallery has acquired. To place this commission in the wider context of Brooks’s work, the portrait of Sir Paul Nurse will be displayed alongside two other portraits by the artist – a new portrait of Formula One racing driver Jenson Button, exhibited for the first time, and an earlier work entitled ‘Zoe’ taken from the ‘Tattooed’ series. |
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ON THE NATURE OF WOMEN: TUDOR AND JACOBEAN PORTRAITS OF WOMEN 1535-1620 (30 Apr 2008 - 1 Oct 2009) Read press release | View images An innovative new display of Tudor portraits featuring virtuous wives and scandalous women – some not seen in public for more than 70 years – opens at the Elizabethan National Trust property Montacute House in Somerset, a regional partner of the National Portrait Gallery, on Tuesday 29 April. |
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‘WANT TO SEE MORE OF ME?’ BLACK FILM ACTORS BY DONALD MACLELLAN (25 Apr 2008 - 7 Sep 2008) Read press release | View images This new series of portraits by photographer Donald MacLellan, funded by the UK Film Council, celebrates talented and successful black British film actors including Colin Salmon and Sophie Okonedo. This is a ‘Leadership on Diversity’ initiative under the Equalities Charter for Film funded by the UK Film Council. www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk |
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ANTHONY CARO PORTRAITS (20 Mar 2008 - 7 Sep 2008) Read press release | View images Anthony Caro is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading sculptors. Celebrated for his abstract sculpture in steel, since the mid-1980s Caro has also made occasional figurative works. This display brings together a series of bronze heads of Sheila, the artist’s wife, made in 1988, revealing a little known aspect of this distinguished artist’s work. |
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JAZZ IN LONDON: PHOTOGRAPHS BY WALTER HANLON (21 Jan 2008 - 20 Jul 2008) Read press release | View images New photographic display documents the jazz scene of 1950s Britain To mark the National Portrait Gallery’s recent acquisition of a selection of photographs by Walter Hanlon, this display brings together his atmospheric portraits of the jazz scene in London in the 1950s. Including portraits of the most popular UK and US players of the period – amongst them Sir John ‘Johnny’ Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton and Cab Calloway – the display opens in advance of the publication of Walter Hanlon’s book, 1950s Jazz in London and Paris (Tempus, February 2008, £15.99). |
