Paul Smith to J K Rowling:
BP Portrait Award Commissions

from the National Portrait Gallery

    J.K. Rowling,    by Stuart Pearson Wright,    2005,    NPG 6723,    © National Portrait Gallery, London
J.K. Rowling by Stuart Pearson Wright, 2005, NPG 6723

Past national and international programme archive
9 June - 24 September 2017

University of Hull for the UK's City of Culture 2017

This exhibition on display at the University of Hull will showcase 22 of the first prize winning portraits from the BP Portrait Award. As part of the Hull City of Culture celebrations for 2017, portraits of sitters including Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren and J.K Rowling will come together in an exhibition which represents the diversity, creativity and vision of a group of people who have shaped Britain today.