Discover Serena Brown, the West London documentary portrait photographer shortlisted for this year's Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023.
⭐The #PhotoPrize opens Thursday 9 November ⭐
📸 me nana fie, March 2022 by Serena Brown © Serena Brown
Jake Green, shortlisted #PhotoPrize photographer, offers a behind the scenes insight into his enigmatic portrait of Happy Mondays lead singer Shaun Ryder.
⭐Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 opens 9 November⭐
📷 Shaun Ryder, May 2023 by Jake Green © Jake Green
Gilliam Trapenberg
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is always a highlight of our year and a must-see for anyone interested in photography. With the winner's announcement next week, here is one of the shortlisted artists Gilliam Trapenberg, discussing his portrait of mother and son, Kisha and LaDarayon.
See all our shortlisted artists via the link:
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2023/taylor-wessing-photo-portrait-prize-2023/
Who do you think is going to win?
#NationalPortraitGallery #PhotoPrize #ContemporaryPortraiture
📸 Kisha and LaDarayon from the series Currents by Gilliam Trapenberg, 2023 © Gilliam Trapenberg
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📣 David Hockney: Drawing from Life is now open
Alongside works from the Gallery’s five star 2020 show, closed in March 2020 due to COVID, the exhibition also features thirty new portraits, painted from life they depict friends and visitors to the artist’s Normandy studio between 2021 and 2022.
Book now ➡️ https://brnw.ch/21wE5p7
📅 On until 21 January 2024
Supported by White & Case LLP
Alexandre Siberman
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize is one of the most important and anticipated photography competitions in the world and a showcase for both celebrated professionals and talented amateurs.
Shortlisted for this year’s prize, Alexandre Siberman’s photography captures local inhabitants experiencing artificial green spaces in cities. Listen here as Alexandre explains this series and where he caught this intimate black-and-white image of Diena.
The exhibition opens on 9 November 2023 - book your ticket now via the link below.
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2023/taylor-wessing-photo-portrait-prize-2023/
#NationalPortraitGallery #PhotoPrize #ContemporaryPortraiture
📸 Diena in the series NATURE by Alexandre Siberman, 2022 © Alexandre Siberman
As we officially bid farewell to British summertime (remember to change your clocks 🕑), we look back to the most spectacular start to the season - the Gallery’s grand reopening. From a building site to a beautiful gallery space, the transformation was stunning.
⭐ Have you visited yet?
Chotulal upside-down by Carl Francois van der Linde
Returning to the Gallery after three years the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize depicts the very best of contemporary photography. In addition to first, second and third prizes, this year we have also launched a new £8,000 commission.
Included in this year’s shortlist is Carl Francois van der Linde, whose portrait captures Chotulal, a.k.a the Dragon - an Indian professional wrestler from Punjab. Listen to hear Carl Francois discuss his approach to portraiture within communities on the fringes of society.
⭐ The prize winners will be announced on the evening of the 6 November ⭐
Find out more via the link below.
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/2023/taylor-wessing-photo-portrait-prize-2023/
#NationalPortraitGallery #PhotoPrize #ContemporaryPortraiture
📸 Chotulal upside-down by Carl Francois van der Linde from the series Our Leader, 2023 © Carl Francois van der Linde
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John Blanke
Meet John Blanke –Trumpeter at the Tudor Royal court, and considered to be the first person of African descent in British history whom we have both a written record and visual image of.
Discover a gem in our extensive new selection of jewellery 👑
Every piece pays its respects to the jewels, colours, and adornments found within our Collection. You'll discover dazzling designs made from a wide range of materials, to suit a myriad of styles and every budget.
Explore the full collection with the link below.
https://npgshop.org.uk/collections/jewellery
#NationalPortraitGallery #Portraiture #GalleryShop
It’s your last chance to see Creative Connections Southampton 🚢
Bringing together works from the National Portrait Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery and Museums, this exhibition explores and celebrates people whose stories are linked to Southampton.
Taking inspiration from these collections, art students from Cantell School have collaborated with Hampshire-based artist Pete Codling and our Learning and Engagement Team to explore portraiture. The artist has worked with the students using charcoal to capture and portray sitters that represent the city. These portraits are part of the display along with a large-scale drawing by Codling, inspired by the local story of 4,000 child refugees from the Basque country arriving in a steamship, SS Habana, during the Spanish Civil War in 1937.
Open until 30 September 2023 - you can find more information via the link in our bio.
⭐ Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund ⭐
#NationalPortraitGallery #NSSP #InspiringPeopleNPG
🎥 Leah Rustomjee
Join Yevonde: Life and Colour curator Clare Freestone and a collective of women creatives from across fashion, film, art and photography for our Study Day. Consisting of illuminating talks and conversations, it will explore Yevonde’s position as a suffragette sister, astute career woman and creative artist. During the lunch break, there will be an opportunity to see the exhibition in full.
Yevonde: Life and Colour features portraits and still-life works produced over a colourful sixty-year career and draws on the archive of her work acquired by the Gallery in 2021, as well as extensive new research by our team.
🗓️ Friday 29 September 2023, 11.00 - 17.00
📍 The Ondaatje Wing Theatre, National Portrait Gallery
Places are limited. Book now via the link below 👇
https://my.npg.org.uk/12927/12928
#NationalPortraitGallery #Portraiture #Yevonde #FemaleArtist
📸 Gif illustrating the Vivex process - Princess Krishna by Yevonde, 1937 © National Portrait Gallery, London
We’re entering the final weeks of Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-1964: Eyes of the Storm. Book now before it’s too late ⏰
⭐ Under 30? Then see #EyesOfTheStorm for just £5, courtesy of Bank of America
📅 on until 1 October
➡️ www.npg.org.uk/PaulMcCartneyEyesofthestorm
⭐Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies
Airport Greeting.mp4
Back by popular demand 🎉
Watch Paul McCartney and Stanley Tucci in conversation. Filmed back in June, this insightful exchange offers a unique insight into the creative practice of a music icon.
🎥 Rent now and enjoy for 72 hours ➡️ https://ow.ly/Uv1E50PL3pW
📅 Available until 1 October
Airport Greeting.mp4
Back by popular demand 🎉
Watch Paul McCartney and Stanley Tucci in conversation. Filmed back in June, this insightful exchange offers a unique insight into the creative practice of a music icon.
🎥 Rent now and enjoy for 72 hours ➡️ https://ow.ly/Uv1E50PL3pW
📅 Available until 1 October
📣 Calling all teachers and students
🎨 We are delighted to announce the launch of our online Schools hub 🎨
With over 150 newly commissioned resources, all linked to the Art & Design and History National Curriculum this state-of-the-art hub explores themes such as identity, empire and migration, whilst connecting students directly with artists from our Collection.
Inspired by the colours found within our #Yevonde Exhibition, these modular adaptable candles are a colourful addition to your home this autumn.
These googly eyed purses and note books are bursting with character and colour, part of our shop's newly expanded kids range, which will help combat back to school blues 🙃
We are delighted to announce the five photographers shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023.
⭐Serena Brown for 'me nana fie'
⭐Jake Green for 'Shaun Ryder'
⭐Carl Francois van der Linde for 'Chotu Lal Upside-down'
⭐Alexandre Silberman for 'Diena'
⭐Gilleam Trapenberg for 'Kisha and LaDarayon, 2023.'
Alongside first, second and third, a commission to the value of £8,000 will be awarded. Supported by Taylor Wessing, the chosen photographer will create an artwork that will enter our Collection. In addition, owing to the outstanding quality of submissions, a joint third prize will also be awarded this year.
The shortlisted works will be displayed in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 at the new National Portrait Gallery from 9 November 2023 until 25 February 2024 ➡️ www.npg.org.uk/photoprize
⭐Supported by Taylor Wessing
It’s been a while since England have been in a world cup final, but today, we are feeling lucky.
Come on the #lionesses, you’ve made it this far. Let's bring it home.
#NationalPortraitGallery #Portraiture #FIFAWWC #WorldCupFinal #WomensWorldCup
📸 Marjorie Dolman as captain and Dorothy Dolman as centre-half in the Gaiety football team by Bassano Ltd, 1919© National Portrait Gallery, London
Born in Poona, India, Farrukh Dhondy won a scholarship to Cambridge in 1964, and when arriving, he soon changed his course from Science to English. After graduating, he did a master's degree at Leicester University and later returned there to teach.
Farrukh Dhondy is he a writer and activist who contributed significantly to Race Today - an anti-racist journal first published in 1973, which centred around black liberation. In 1976, activists including Farrukh Dhondy and Mala Sen worked with local families who, through lack of housing, had been forced to squat. They created the Bengali Housing Action Group (BHAG) and pressured the council to improve housing, which helped establish Brick Lane in East London as a safe area for the Bangladeshi community.
You can see the full film in Room 28, alongside other activists and changemakers.
#SouthAsianHeritageMonth #NationalPortraitGallery #Portraiture
🎶 Interview and audio captured by @towerhamletsarchives
📸 Farrukh Dhondy by Neil Kenlock, 1973 © Neil Kenlock, purchased as part of Citizin UK: Tower Hamlets.
From storytelling in the galleries to photography workshops and creative hands-on activities, there was lot’s to see and do during our first Family Festival since re-opening. Thank you to everyone that came along ❤
We're excited to share our vibrant retail collection to accompany Yevonde: Life and Colour 🌼 The exhibition is an exploration of the life and career of Yevonde, the pioneering London photographer who spearheaded the use of colour photography in the 1930s and coined the phrase 'be original or die'.
Explore the collection here: https://npgshop.org.uk/collections/madame-yevonde-life-and-colour
#NationalPortraitGallery #Yevonde
Can you learn to paint in a week? Our Digital Artist in Residence Anthony Comber-Badu gave it a go…
⭐️Featuring award-winning artist and tutor Samira Addo, and curator Haja Fanta.
➡️ Supported by CASS ART
📍 Studio Boardroom, Illife Yard
📽 Production supported by After Party Studios
🎼 Soundtrack by 1o (Nolan Armstrong)
Can you learn to paint in a week? Our Digital Artist in Residence Anthony Comber-Badu gave it a go…
⭐️Featuring award-winning artist and tutor Samira Addo, and curator Haja Fanta.
➡️ Supported by CASS ART
📍 Studio Boardroom, Illife Yard
📽 Production supported by After Party Studios
🎼 Soundtrack by 1o (Nolan Armstrong)
How I Learnt to Paint in a Week...
Can you learn to paint in a week? Our Digital Artist in Residence Anthony Comber-Badu gave it a go…
⭐️Featuring award-winning artist and tutor Samira Addo, and curator Haja Fanta.
➡️ Supported by CASS ART
📍 Studio Boardroom, Illife Yard
📽 Production supported by After Party Studios
🎼 Soundtrack by 1o (Nolan Armstrong)
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates the very best in international portrait photography.
⭐ 27 October – 18 December 2022 ➡️ Book now ➡️ www.npg.org.uk/photoprize
🎥 Helen Plumb
Outkast: Locating Community in the National Portrait Gallery Archives
For his first piece as our Digital Artist in Residence, Anthony Comber-Badu (@azbadu) explores the Gallery’s archive and reflects on the idea of community and spatial equity.
➡️Supported by CASS ART
⭐Production supported by After Party Studios
From talented amateurs to skilled professionals, discover the very best in contemporary photography in this year’s Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.
🎟️Book now: http://npg.org.uk/photoprize
⭐️Under 30s for £4 every weekend
📅27 Oct - 18 Dec
"It gives me a chance to show Sheffield what I'm capable of."
Hear from Sheffield Park Academy students as they share their experience of being involved in the Creative Connections exhibition at Sheffield Museums' Millennium Gallery.
Participants worked with artist, and past student, Conor Rogers to create a striking bus shelter installation, which sits alongside a display of portraits from the National Portrait Gallery’s and Sheffield’s Collection, celebrating the public figures connected to the city.
⭐ Creative Connections is funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Art Fund, and with the generous support of the Palley family.
🎥 Film by Leah Rustomjee