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Exhibitions (4)

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

5 November 2009 - 14 February 2010
Porter Gallery
Free

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. Entry is open to photographers from around the world, aged 18 and over.

Irving Penn Portraits

Irving Penn Portraits

18 February - 6 June 2010
Wolfson Gallery
Tickets: £10/£9/£8

The exhibition includes over 120 exquisite prints, many vintage, ranging from his earliest portraits for Vogue magazine in 1944 to the present day.

The Indian Portrait 1560 - 1860

The Indian Portrait 1560 - 1860

11 March - 20 June 2010
Porter Gallery
Free

BP Portrait Award 2010

BP Portrait Award 2010

24 June - 19 September 2010

Call for entries is now open. Closing date: 14 February 2010

Events (42)

William Beckford and Fonthill Abbey

  • Gallery Talk

Past event archive
9 February 2010, 15:00

Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Phillippa Heath

Utmost Fidelity: Marianne and Adrian Stokes

  • Lecture

11 February 2010, 13:15
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

by Magdalen Evans

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Exhibition Tour

  • BSL

A part of Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
11 February 2010, 19:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free but tour tickets required and available on the day from 17.00 on a first come, first served basis.

Artist Marc Woodhead takes a fresh look at the photographs and styles in this year’s Prize.

John Turville Trio

  • Friday Night Music

12 February 2010, 18:30
Free

Original music exploring the boundaries between contemporary jazz, tango and south Indian rhythms.

Restoration Portraits - Portrait of the Day

  • Gallery Talk

13 February 2010, 12:00
Room 7
Free

by Paul Johnson

The Rose and Lily Queen

  • Gallery Talk

13 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Lesley Rivett

Love Stories

  • Gallery Talk

14 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Marc Zakian

Talking Heads: Clay Characters

Talking Heads: Clay Characters

  • Family

15 February 2010, 11:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Explore different techniques and processes to make your own self portrait in clay.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Talking Heads: Clay Characters

Talking Heads: Clay Characters

  • Family

1 January 1970 - 15 February 2010, 01:00-14:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Explore different techniques and processes to make your own self portrait in clay.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Talking Heads: Jug Ears

Talking Heads: Jug Ears

  • Family

16 February 2010, 11:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Make a special clay portrait mug inspired by sculpture in the contemporary Collection.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Talking Heads: Jug Ears

Talking Heads: Jug Ears

  • Family

16 February 2010, 14:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Make a special clay portrait mug inspired by sculpture in the contemporary Collection.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Life Lines: 20th-Century Drawings

  • Gallery Talk

16 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Rosie Broadley

Talking Heads: Box Head

Talking Heads: Box Head

  • Family

17 February 2010, 11:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Build and decorate a head-shaped box to fill with all your thoughts and dreams.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Talking Heads: Box Head

Talking Heads: Box Head

  • Family

17 February 2010, 14:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Build and decorate a head-shaped box to fill with all your thoughts and dreams.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Members afternoon preview - Irving Penn Portraits

  • Members and Associates only

17 February 2010, 14:00-16:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

Talking Heads: Wireworks

Talking Heads: Wireworks

  • Family

18 February 2010, 11:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Experiment with shape and scale to create your own wire model.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

London Stories: Black in the British Frame

  • Lecture

18 February 2010, 13:15
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

by Stephen Bourne

Talking Heads: Wireworks

Talking Heads: Wireworks

  • Family

18 February 2010, 14:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Experiment with shape and scale to create your own wire model.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Talking Heads: I-Spy Sculpture

Talking Heads: I-Spy Sculpture

  • Family

19 February 2010, 11:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Create a magic sculpture with a secret spy hole.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Talking Heads: I-Spy Sculpture

Talking Heads: I-Spy Sculpture

  • Family

19 February 2010, 14:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Create a magic sculpture with a secret spy hole.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Beyond the Face - Three-day Workshop

Beyond the Face - Three-day Workshop

  • Workshop||Young People

17 February - 19 February 2010, 11:00-16:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free - Fully booked

Explore the images in Irving Penn Portraits and create a series of portraits focusing on dress, pose, body-parts and objects to express your interests and personality. Work with photography, text and image animation, culminating in a public screening. Led by artists Marianne Holm Hansen and photographer Tom Wichelow.

Beyond the Face presents...

Beyond the Face presents...

  • Young People

19 February 2010, 17:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

Screening from the Beyond the Face workshop (17-19 February 2010)

Fbox Records with Alex Monk and Isnaj Dui

  • Friday Night Music

19 February 2010, 18:30
Free

Music that moves against the inorganic qualities of purely laptop-based material, embracing a more natural side of electronica.

Family Art Workshops: In A Spin

Family Art Workshops: In A Spin

  • Family

20 February 2010, 11:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Make a 3-D portrait that moves and revolves.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Storytelling for Families: A Very Important Event

Storytelling for Families: A Very Important Event

  • Family

20 February 2010, 14:00
Meet in the Main Hall

Imagine finding out your dad was going to be the Lord Mayor of London!

Suitable for ages 3+ and their carers. No ticket required. These sessions will last approximately 30 minutes.

Family Art Workshops: In A Spin

Family Art Workshops: In A Spin

  • Family

20 February 2010, 14:30
Meet in the Main Hall

Make a 3-D portrait that moves and revolves.

Suitable for children aged 5+ and their carers. Free ticket required and available on the day one hour before the event starts from the Information Desk in the Main Hall. The session will last approximately 90 minutes. Places are limited to 20 per session, maximum 4 tickets per adult.

Self-Portraits

  • Gallery Talk

20 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Alison Kusner

Storytelling for Families: A Very Important Event

Storytelling for Families: A Very Important Event

  • Family

20 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall

Imagine finding out your dad was going to be the Lord Mayor of London!

Suitable for ages 3+ and their carers. No ticket required. These sessions will last approximately 30 minutes.

The Two Marys

  • Gallery Talk

21 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Sylvia Paskin

Frame Stories

  • Gallery Talk

23 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Alan Read

The Real Desperate Romantics

  • Lecture

25 February 2010, 13:15
Ondaatje Wing Theatre
Free

by Lucinda Hawksley

Portrait of The Brönte Sisters

  • Picture descriptions

25 February 2010, 14:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

Picture description for visually impaired visitors.

Irving Penn Portraits Exhibition Tour

Irving Penn Portraits Exhibition Tour

A part of Irving Penn Portraits
25 February 2010, 19:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free but tour tickets required and available on the day from 17.00 on a first come first served basis in addition to a timed exhibition ticket.

Join Eleanor Weber, curatorial assistant for Irving Penn Portraits, for a discussion of some of the key photographs in this exhibition. Weber assisted with image research, particularly in the Vogue archive, researched contextual and biographical information and wrote an extensive chronology for the exhibition

Marcus Farnsworth and James Cheung

  • Friday Night Music

26 February 2010, 18:30
Free

Marcus Farnsworth and pianist James Cheung perform a programme including Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.39.

Drawing Portraits Workshop

25 February - 26 February 2010, 18:00-20:30
Tickets: £60/£50 concessions and Gallery Supporters

Study and explore the drawn portrait through observation and experimentation in this one day or two evening workshop using the Gallery’s Collection as inspiration. Led by artist Marc Woodhead.

Highlights of the Collection

  • Gallery Talk

27 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Leslie Primo

Drawing Portraits Workshop

27 February 2010, 11:00-17:00
Tickets: £60/£50 concessions and Gallery Supporters

Study and explore the drawn portrait through observation and experimentation in this one day or two evening workshop using the Gallery’s Collection as inspiration. Led by artist Marc Woodhead.

Prime Ministers

  • Gallery Talk

28 February 2010, 15:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

by Marc Zakian

Members afternoon preview - Irving Penn Portraits

  • Members and Associates only

10 March 2010, 14:00-16:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

Members evening private view:
Irving Penn Portraits and The Indian Portrait 1560–1860

  • Members and Associates only

10 May 2010, 18:30-20:30
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

Members afternoon preview - BP Portrait Award 2010

  • Members and Associates only

23 June 2010, 14:00-16:00
Meet in the Main Hall
Free

Call for papers: International Conference

Call for papers: International Conference

  • Conference

2 December - 4 December 2010, 10:00-18:00

This conference is part of a collaborative research project between the National Portrait Gallery, the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Sussex, called Making Art in Tudor Britain. Delegate booking for the conference will open in May 2010.

Displays (16)

Photograph of the Month

Photograph of the Month

1 February - 28 February 2010
Room 39
Free

Margaret Forster, novelist and biographer, photographed by Joanne O’Brien, member of Format Photographers Picture Agency, April 1993

Jane Bown Exposures

Jane Bown Exposures

1 December 2009 - 5 April 2010
Bookshop Gallery
Free

Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane Grey

19 December 2009 - 11 July 2010
Room 16
Free

Boer War Portraits by Inglis Sheldon-Williams

Boer War Portraits by Inglis Sheldon-Williams

9 November 2009 - 16 May 2010
Room 23 case display
Free

Caricatures by Edwin Landseer

Caricatures by Edwin Landseer

16 November 2009 - 23 May 2010
Room 24 case display

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

13 January - 6 June 2010
Room 25

Salome: Oscar Wilde and Maud Allan

Salome: Oscar Wilde and Maud Allan

13 July 2009 - 7 March 2010
Room 26
Free

Victorian Chalk Portraits

Victorian Chalk Portraits

12 January - 11 July 2010
Room 27
Free

The Brothers Sarony

The Brothers Sarony

20 October 2009 - 31 March 2010
Room 28 case display
Free

Life lines: Recently acquired 20th Century drawings

Life lines: Recently acquired 20th Century drawings

31 October 2009 - 30 April 2010
Room 31 case display
Free

John Gibbons: Portraits

John Gibbons: Portraits

12 September 2009 - 14 March 2010
Room 32 (Balcony)
Free

Twiggy: A Life in Photographs

Twiggy: A Life in Photographs

19 September 2009 - 21 March 2010
Room 33

Drawing Portraits

Drawing Portraits

16 January - 12 September 2010
Room 37a
Free

Format Photography Agency 1983-2003

Format Photography Agency 1983-2003

21 January - 11 July 2010
Room 38a
Free

Recent Acquisitions: Photographs of the 2000s

Recent Acquisitions: Photographs of the 2000s

5 February - 9 May 2010
Room 41a
Free

Contemporary Connections: The Singh Twins

Contemporary Connections: The Singh Twins

11 March - 20 June 2010
Studio Gallery
Free

Beyond the Gallery (5)

BP Portrait Award 2009 - Touring

BP Portrait Award 2009 - Touring

  • Touring exhibition

A part of BP Portrait Award 2009
12 December 2009 - 28 February 2010
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
Free

Comedians: From the 1940s to Now

Comedians: From the 1940s to Now

  • Partnership exhibition

21 November 2009 - 20 March 2010
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Free

Supported by the DCMS/DCSF

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 - Touring

  • Touring exhibition

A part of Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
27 March - 6 June 2010
Shipley Art Gallery, Newcastle
Free

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 - Touring

  • Touring exhibition

A part of Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
16 July - 12 September 2010
The Art Gallery, Walsall
Free

Samuel Johnson and Biography

Samuel Johnson and Biography

  • Partnership exhibition

1 February 2010 - 1 February 2011
Beningbrough Hall
Free