This winter, the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne will be home to a host of famous faces from the worlds of film, television, politics, media and art in two contrasting exhibitions from the National Portrait Gallery (on display from 8 November 2014 until 15 February 2015). This programme is the most recent in a long-term partnership between the NPG and museums and galleries in the North East of England. Even as these two exhibitions open at the Laing, the BP Portrait Award 2014 is on display at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens (until 16 November) and a spectacular group of portraits from the NPG collection introduce the exhibition Screaming Steel: Art, War and Trauma 1914-1918 at the Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University (until 13 December).…
By
Amy Barker, Curator of the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead
07 November 2014