Late Shift Tours

The Gallery works with contemporary artists and thinkers to explore our Collection in new and interesting ways and provide fresh voices that investigate issues around identity, culture and self-representation. As part of this process a series of Late Shift Tours have been developed around the themes of our special Late Shift Extra events. These tours offer alternative ways to explore the Gallery by presenting personal responses and perspectives and are available to download below.

	Late Shift Tour This Late Shift Tour has been created in response to the exhibition Lucian Freud Portraits and Draw the Line, a late night event at the Gallery on 18 May 2012. We invited the illustrator Marion Deuchars to create a sketchbook of drawing activities focussed on portraits, sparking the imagination to encourage the artist in us to pick up a pencil and get creative.
	Glamour Factory This tour was created in response to the exhibition Glamour of the Gods: Hollywood Portraits, with photographs from the John Kobal Foundation; and Glamour Factory, a late night event at the Gallery on 7 October 2011 created in partnership with Contemporary Vintage. The hosts of Glamour Factory offer their reflections on myth, glamour, style, scandal and immortality, responding to portraits in the Collection. Take this self-guided tour and let them guide you through the galleries offering ideas and insights.
	All Walks Beyond the Catwalk This tour of the Collection with fashion insiders and co-founders of All Walks Beyond the Catwalk - Erin O’Connor, Debra Bourne and Caryn Franklin - offers their reflections on women and representations of beauty. All Walks Beyond the Catwalk celebrate and encourage greater diversity in the fashion industry. Their thoughts on a selection of portraits of women in the Collection are presented here to guide you around the Gallery. They have recently worked with fashion photographer Rankin whose images are also included here and were exhibited for one night at the Gallery.
	Picturing Philosophers This tour by philosopher Nigel Warburton focuses on philosophers, and explores their philosophic ideas and raises questions they considered. Philosophy is the practice of thinking critically about some of the deepest questions we can ask ourselves, questions about the nature of reality and about how we should live. We are very fortunate in having the ideas of many past brilliant thinkers to draw upon and to stimulate us. But in the end we all have to reach our own conclusions. In that sense, anyone who thinks about these questions is a philosopher.