National Portrait Gallery 2023-24 Exhibition Programme

National Portrait Gallery 2023-24 Exhibition Programme

It truly is also introduced its planned programme of exhibitions in the 12 months
immediately after it opens.

I am listing these under – but splitting them involving Art and Images – and
I’m purchasing the exhibitions by the date the exhibition opens relatively than the
prominence of the sitter/artist or likely recognition of the exhibition

Painted Portraits

David Hockney: Drawing From Life

2 November 2023 – 21 January 2024 (postponed from when it opened just prior to the Pandemic. I’ve currently
found it!)

Take a look at the artist’s operate over the very last six a long time through his new
functions and intimate portraits of 5 sitters: his mother, Celia
Birtwell, Gregory Evans, Maurice Payne and the artist himself.

Celia, Carennac, August 1971 by David Hockney © David
Hockney,

Coloured pencil on paper,

Photograph Credit rating: Richard Schmidt

Selection The David Hockney Foundation

The Time is Often Now: Artists Reframe the Black Determine

22 February – 19 May well 2024

Curated by Ekow Eshun, this is a key study of African diasporic
artists working in the Uk and The usa, that includes functions by Michael
Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola and
Amy Sherald (amongst some others).

Photographic Portraits

Photographic portrait exhibitions Summer time 2023


Yevonde: Daily life and Color

22 June – 15 Oct 2023

The first exhibition to open up as aspect of the Gallery’s 2023 programme will
discover the lifestyle and profession of twentieth century photographer, Yevonde,
who pioneered the use of colour images in the 1930s. Supported by the
CHANEL Lifestyle Fund, this fascinating clearly show will study the portraits and
nonetheless-life will work that the artist made all over her sixty year
occupation, positioning Yevonde as a trailblazer in the record of British
portrait pictures.

Paul McCartney Pictures 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm

28 June – 1 October 2023

This unparalleled exhibition will share, for the to start with time, an
amazing archive of rediscovered and in no way-right before-viewed photographs
taken by Paul McCartney. Shot throughout the interval in which John Lennon,
Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were propelled from
remaining the most common band in Britain to an worldwide cultural
phenomenon, the exhibition presents a uniquely individual point of view on
what it was like to be a ‘Beatle’ at the commence of ‘Beatlemania’.
Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize

9 November 2023 – 25 February 2024

Showcasing function from the most exciting and chopping-edge present-day
photographers, the levels of competition is open up to everybody aged 18 and over –
from proficient amateurs to seasoned specialists.