From Where I Stand: Photographs by Mary McCartney
Past display archive
4 October 2010 - 2 May 2011
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British film directors (Stephen Frears; Sir Richard Eyre; Ken Loach; Mike Leigh; Michael Winterbottom; Stephen Daldry)
by Mary McCartney
December 2002
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McCartney’s first solo exhibition in 2004 entitled Off Pointe - A Photographic Study of the Royal Ballet After Hours, documented the private world of the elite Corps de Ballet, and was first shown at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Further exhibitions include her first solo American exhibition Playing Dress Up at the Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas, Texas in 2007, and British Style Observed at the Natural History Museum in 2008.
In 2009 McCartney received her first commission from the National Portrait Gallery, to take portrait studies of the nine selectors for the exhibition Gay Icons. These portraits are in the Gallery’s permanent Collection, in addition to McCartney’s portraits of Stella McCartney, Katherine Hamnett, Shirley Bassey and Twiggy.
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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- Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey
- Lily Cole
- Stephen Daldry
- Tracey Emin
- Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre
- Stephen Arthur Frears
- Katharine Hamnett
- Polly Jean ('P.J.') Harvey
- Twiggy Lawson (née Lesley Hornby)
- Mike Leigh
- Kenneth Charles ('Ken') Loach
- Linda McCartney
- Stella McCartney
- Dame Helen Mirren
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Sam Taylor-Johnson (Sam Taylor-Wood)
- Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
- Michael Winterbottom