Contemporary Collection Display
Contemporary Collection Display
Past display archive
30 November 2018 - 3 February 2019
Rooms 35 - 41a, Floor 0
Free
In 1969, the National Portrait Gallery began to collect portraits of living sitters. Since then the contemporary collection has grown considerably through acquisitions and commissioned portraits and now encompasses works produced from 2000 to the present day.
Highlights from this new display include unseen portraits of musician Amy Winehouse, the John Kobal New Award commissions, newly acquired portraits of Explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Astronaut Tim Peake and Museum Director Neil MacGregor, photographs from The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding, and new works by artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
Events
Works on display
Room 35: People of Today Room 36: People of Today Room 37: Power Shakers Room 37a: Portraits in Motion Room 38: Cultural Lives Room 38a: Nineties to Noughties: Music and Fashion
Banner credit: Amy Winehouse by Ram Shergill NPG x200127
Play
Tudor and Elizabethan matching pairs
Test your memory by playing our matching pairs game. Three levels of difficulty make it fun for the whole family.
Regency familiar faces
Rearrange tiles to uncover sitters from the Gallery's Collection by playing our puzzle game.
Who do you think you were?
Answer a few lifestyle questions about the Elizabethan period and discover your inner Elizabethan!
Related portraits
- Harold Pinter (NPG 6185)
- Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (NPG 6332)
- Kate Moss (NPG P1020)
- Alexander McQueen; Isabella Blow (NPG P1403)
- Damon Albarn (NPG 6593(1))
- Graham Coxon (NPG 6593(2))
- Alex James (NPG 6593(3))
- Dave Rowntree (NPG 6593(4))
- Fiona Shaw (NPG 6609)
- Ian McKellen (NPG 6610)
- Mo Mowlam (NPG 6468)
- Tracey Emin ('Death Mask') (NPG 7034)
- Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf (NPG P1030)
- Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (née Havers), Baroness Butler-Sloss (NPG P1029)
- Alfred Brendel (NPG 6720)
- 'Self-Portrait with Charlie' (David Hockney; Charles Dare Scheips) (NPG 6819)
- Paul Nurse ('Paul') (NPG 6837)
- Akram Khan (NPG 6847)
- V.S. Naipaul (NPG 6875)
- Willard White (NPG 6886)
- Anna Wintour (NPG 6908)
- Jonathan Brownlee; Alistair Brownlee; Malcolm Brown (NPG P1753)
- Tessa Jowell (NPG P1711)
- David Weir (NPG P1752)
- Shami Chakrabarti (NPG 6923)
- Amy Winehouse ('Amy-Blue') (NPG 6948)
- Nick Hornby (NPG 6970)
- Kelly Holmes (NPG 6944)
- Maggie Smith (NPG 6955)
- Mo Farah (NPG P1833)
- Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws (NPG 6979)
- Zenaida Yanowsky (NPG P2022)
- Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (NPG 6982)
- Vivienne In Her Garden, London 2014 (Dame Vivienne Westwood) (NPG P1980)
- Joan Bakewell (NPG 6997)
- Sir Kenneth Branagh (NPG 7045)
- Gail Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck (NPG 7018)
- Eric Underwood (NPG P2025)
- Neil MacGregor (NPG P2078)
- Ed Sheeran (NPG 7035)
- Harry Djanogly; Carol Ann Djanogly (NPG 7046)
- Thelma Golden and Duro Olowu ('Thelma & Duro') (NPG P2076)
- Sir Ranulph Fiennes (NPG P2079)
- Malala Yousafzai (NPG 7052)
- Sarah Hardcastle (NPG x77051)
- Sarah Hardcastle (NPG x77052)
- The Spice Girls (Mel B; Geri Halliwell; Emma Bunton; Victoria Beckham; Mel C) (NPG x200144)
- Peter Tatchell (NPG x88486)
- Amy Winehouse (NPG x200126)
- Amy Winehouse (NPG x200127)
- 'Take That' (Gary Barlow; Howard Donald; Jason Orange; Mark Owen; Robbie Williams) (NPG x134921)
- Tinie Tempah (NPG x134919)
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (NPG x200213)
- Anthony Joshua (NPG x137425)
- Nigel Farage (NPG x139682)
- Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon (NPG x199083)
- Leyla Hussein (NPG x199650)
- Sir David Attenborough (NPG x199654)
- Jacob William Rees-Mogg; Julia Wren (NPG x200131)
- Felicity Jones (NPG x199584)
- Chris Froome (NPG x200136)
- David Cameron; Sir Craig Stewart Oliver (NPG x200123)
- Women Permanent Secretaries (NPG x199774)
- Jack O'Connell (NPG x199780)
- Tim Peake (NPG x199982)
- Roger Deakins (NPG x200037)
- Polly Stenham (NPG x200096)
- Ruth Wilson (NPG x200097)
- Dame Cressida Dick (NPG x200134)
- Katharine Hamnett (NPG x200140)
- Ben Morris (NPG x200190)
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (NPG x200210)
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex; Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and family (NPG x200211)
- David Beckham (NPG x125379)
Related sitters
- Damon Albarn
- Sir David Attenborough
- Joan Dawson Bakewell (née Rowlands), Baroness Bakewell
- Gary Barlow
- David Robert Joseph Beckham
- Victoria Beckham (née Adams)
- Isabella Blow (Isabella Delves Broughton)
- Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd
- Dame Ann Elizabeth Bowtell
- Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh
- Alfred Brendel
- Dame Ursula Brennan
- Malcolm Brown
- Melanie Brown
- Alistair Edward Brownlee
- Jonathan Brownlee
- Emma Lee Bunton
- Elizabeth Butler-Sloss (née Havers), Baroness Butler-Sloss
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
- David William Donald Cameron
- Sharmishta ('Shami') Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti
- Melanie Chisholm
- Graham Coxon
- Dame Sally Davies
- Dame Melanie Henrietta Dawes
- Roger Deakins
- Dame Cressida Dick
- Carol Ann Djanogly
- Harry Djanogly
- Howard Donald
- Dame Karen Hope Dunnell
- Tracey Emin
- Leslie Evans
- Nigel Farage
- Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama ('Mo') Farah
- Chris Froome
- Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner
- Dame Helen Frances Ghosh
- Thelma Golden
- Geraldine Estelle ('Geri') Halliwell
- Katharine Hamnett
- Sarah Lucy Hardcastle
- Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex
- Bronwyn Hill
- David Hockney
- Dame Kelly Holmes
- Nick Hornby
- Leyla Hussein
- Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
- Steven Alexander ('Alex') James
- Felicity Jones
- Anthony Joshua
- Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell (née Palmer), Baroness Jowell
- Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
- Akram Khan
- Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon
- Dame Mavis McDonald
- (Robert) Neil MacGregor
- Sir Ian Murray McKellen
- Alexander McQueen
- Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller
- Dame Jilian Norma ('Jil') Matheson
- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
- Dame Shan Elizabeth Morgan
- Ben Morris
- Kate Moss
- Marjorie ('Mo') Mowlam
- Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad ('V.S.') Naipaul
- Sir Paul Maxime Nurse
- Dame Una O'Brien
- Jack O'Connell
- Sir Craig Stewart Oliver
- Duro Olowu
- Jason Orange
- Mark Owen
- Dame Susan Jane ('Sue') Owen
- Timothy Nigel ('Tim') Peake
- Harold Pinter
- Gail Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck
- Jacob William Rees-Mogg
- Dame Stella Rimington
- Antonia Romeo
- Dave Rowntree
- Dame Alison Saunders
- Dame Nemat Talaat ('Minouche') Shafik
- Fiona Mary Shaw
- Edward Christopher ('Ed') Sheeran
- Dame Margaret Natalie ('Maggie') Smith
- Polly Stenham
- Dame Valerie Patricia Marie Strachan
- Dame Sue Street
- Peter Tatchell
- Tinie Tempah (Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu)
- Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Bt
- Eric Underwood
- Moira Wallace
- David Weir
- Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
- Dame Sharon Michele White
- Sir Willard Wentworth White
- Patsy Wilkinson
- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
- Robbie Williams
- Ruth Wilson
- Amy Jade Winehouse
- Anna Wintour
- Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf
- Julia Wren
- Zenaida Yanowsky
- Malala Yousafzai
Related artists
- Jason Ashwood
- Sam Barker
- Glenys Barton
- Tony Bevan
- Charlie Bibby
- Polly Borland
- Jason Brooks
- Hugo Burnand
- Tereza Cervenová
- Christian Courrèges
- Colin Davidson
- Suki Dhanda
- Marlene Dumas
- Jillian Edelstein
- Peter Edwards
- Tracey Emin
- Paul Emsley
- Darvish Fakhr
- Brian Griffin
- Rick Guest
- Francesco Guidicini
- Mark Harrison
- Wim Heldens
- David Hockney
- Nadav Kander
- Alex Katz
- John Keane
- Brendan Kelly
- David LaChapelle
- Chris Levine
- James Lloyd
- Alexi Lubomirski
- Finlay MacKay
- Ben McMahon
- Jennifer McRae
- Alistair Morrison
- Justin Mortimer
- Ishbel Myerscough
- Shirin Neshat
- Humphrey Ocean (Humphrey Anthony Erdeswick Butler-Bowdon)
- Catherine Opie
- Julian Opie
- Laura Pannack
- Kate Peters
- Josh Redman
- Victoria Kate Russell
- Nigel Shafran
- Ram Shergill
- Clive Smith
- Maija Tammi
- Juergen Teller
- Mario Testino
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- Walter & Zoniel
- Gillian Wearing
- Craig Wylie