Exposed: the naked portrait

    Jacques Cartier,    by Dorothy Wilding,    1932,    NPG x30498,    © William Hustler and Georgina Hustler / National Portrait Gallery, London
Jacques Cartier by Dorothy Wilding 1932 NPG x30498

Past national and international programme archive
27 October 2018 - 3 March 2019

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

This exhibition of unclothed portraits from the National Portrait Gallery Collection invites questions about identity and gender, the real and ideal. It includes portraits of exposed sitters from Nell Gwyn to Naomi Campbell, Gilbert and George to John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

This exhibition is a partnership project, jointly curated between the National Portrait Gallery and the Laing Art Gallery.