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Looking to the Collection with Mohsin Zaidi

To celebrate LGBTQ+ month, Mohsin Zaidi, barrister and author of 'A Dutiful Boy', celebrates portraits of queer icons of colour. …

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16 February 2021

• New Additions

Reay Primary School – Marcus Rashford Portraits

Schools Programmes Manager Francesca Laws interviewed year 2 children with their teacher Mrs David-Jekyll at Reay Primary School in Lambeth to find out about their portrait project to celebrate footballer and campaigner Marcus Rashford. …

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15 December 2020

• New Additions
• Activities

Citizen UK - Tower Hamlets

Participation Manager Emily Stone provides an update on an exciting collaboration with Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives to commemorate 50 years of Bangladesh Independence…

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03 December 2020

• New Additions
• Inspiring People

The decant of the displayed National Collection for Inspiring People

The Gallery is pleased to report that the decant of displayed works has now been successfully completed. The Gallery has not undertaken such a huge move since portraits were evacuated to Buckinghamshire during the Second World War. …

By Edward Purvis, Head of Collections Services

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03 December 2020

• New Additions
• Activities

Star Wars and the National Portrait Gallery

The Gallery has worked with Disney+ on a special display, which we hope will introduce new audiences to our Collection. The display at The Unit in the West End marks the launch of the second season of Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian and will include images from the Gallery’s Collection and a painting entitled ‘The Mandalorian and the Child’…

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29 October 2020

In Conversation with Chaz Guest

American artist Chaz Guest recently caught up with our Senior Contemporary Curator Sarah Howgate.…

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22 October 2020