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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. …

By National Portrait Gallery,

16 February 2021

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. …

By National Portrait Gallery,

15 December 2020

Recognise Bangla Desh rally poster. Courtesy of Ansar Ahmed Ullah, Swadhinata Trust

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…

By National Portrait Gallery,

03 December 2020

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

03 December 2020

Art for the Young People: BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Young People’s Private View

On Tuesday 4 August, the BP Portrait Award: Next Generation Young People’s Private View opened up the Gallery only for 14-19-year-olds as a showcase of youth talent and portraiture. The hosts for the evening, the Gallery’s Youth Forum are a group of young people who develop events to make the Gallery more youth-friendly. Youth Forum members Josh and Miranda talk about how the night brought a youth perspective to the BP Portrait Award 2015.…

By BP Portrait Award: Next Generation,

20 August 2015

Suffragette Painter: discovering Ethel Wright

The aim of International Women’s Day 2015 on Sunday 8th March is to encourage effective action for advancing and recognising women. This year’s theme is Make it Happen, which echoes the spirit of the militant suffragette’s motto of a hundred-years’ earlier, ‘Deeds not Words’; a call-to-action for disenfranchised British women. Two portraits of leading militant suffragettes, Emmeline Pankhurst by Georgina Brackenbury and her daughter Dame Christabel Pankhurst, painted by Ethel Wright, are currently on display in the twentieth-century galleries. …

By Rosie Broadley, Head of Collection Displays (Victorian to Contemporary), Senior Curator, 20th Century Collections

05 March 2015