Fergus Greer: Photographer in Focus
Bill Gates
by Fergus Greer
1992
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Past display archive
7 March - 10 September 2006
Room 38a
Free
Supported by Deloitte
A display at the National Portrait Gallery, of over twenty portraits from the worlds of literature, film, politics and music, celebrates the acquisition of an important archive of fifty portraits, spanning the last fifteen years, taken by leading international photographer Fergus Greer.
Born in England and brought up in Southern Ireland, Greer studied at St Martin's School of Art, London. He then went to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and served four years with the Irish Guards. Greer left the army to pursue a career in photography, first working as a photographic assistant with a number of photographers including Richard Avedon and later as studio manager to Terence Donovan. As a freelance photographer, Greer worked for a variety of magazines and regularly shot covers for The Sunday Times Magazine. He moved to Los Angeles in 1997 and photographed for leading American and international magazines as well as continuing to work on personal projects.
As an officially accredited war artist he documented the war in Kosovo, and a book of these photographs, was published in June 2001. He also collaborated with the Australian performance artist Leigh Bowery to produce Leigh Bowery Looks: Photographs 1988-1994 (2001). After ten years in Los Angeles, Greer has recently returned to live in London and has set up his studio in Chelsea.
Greer first exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in 2001 in the display Film Directors: Photographs by Fergus Greer featuring prominent filmmakers from the past sixty years. Subjects included Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone and Mike Leigh.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
by Fergus Greer
February 2000
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Molly Dineen
by Fergus Greer
1990
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Quentin Crisp
by Fergus Greer
1989
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Link
- Interview with Fergus Greer
Related portraits
- Quentin Crisp (NPG x126805)
- Charles Forte, Baron Forte (NPG x126803)
- Molly Dineen (NPG x126804)
- Steve Coogan (NPG x127790)
- Damien Hirst (NPG x126809)
- Hugh Grant (NPG x126878)
- Bill Gates (NPG x126813)
- Dylan Jones (NPG x127794)
- Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo; Jonathan Yeo (NPG x127750)
- Margaret Thatcher (NPG x126810)
- Ray Winstone (NPG x127749)
- R.B. Kitaj (NPG x127796)
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee (NPG x88859)
- Thom Gunn (NPG x126740)
- Julie Christie (NPG x126885)
- Simon Cowell (NPG x126869)
- Michael Caine (NPG x126877)
- Robert David Weston Lacey (NPG x126866)
- Simon Sebag Montefiore (NPG x126867)
- Andrew Roberts (NPG x126868)
- Robbie Williams (NPG x128185)
- Stephen Daldry (NPG x128074)
- Sarah Sands (NPG x128192)
Related sitters
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Sir Michael Caine
- Julie Frances Christie
- Steve Coogan
- Simon Cowell
- Quentin Crisp (Dennis Charles Pratt)
- Stephen Daldry
- Molly Dineen
- Charles Forte, Baron Forte
- William H. ('Bill') Gates
- Hugh John Mungo Grant
- Thomson William ('Thom') Gunn
- Damien Hirst
- Dylan Jones
- R.B. Kitaj
- Robert David Weston Lacey
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Andrew Roberts
- Sarah Sands
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts), Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven
- Robbie Williams
- Ray Winstone
- Jonathan Yeo
- Timothy Stephen Kenneth Yeo