Tag: portrait

Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale

A prolific portrait painter from the 17th century, Beale left a far-reaching legacy and espoused a progressive partnership of equality with her husband, which enabled her to become one of Britain’s first professional female artists
Celia Paul: Memory and Desire

This is a poignant and deeply personal show, and sadness permeates the works, done during lockdown and in the final months of her husband’s life
Katya Kvasova – interview: ‘People say that whatever someone paints or draws is always a self-portrait. That’s true’

The artist talks about her interest in hands, her artistic training, and her method of layering graphite powder and translucent colour on to the canvas, allowing the light to eat the image
Jean David Nkot – interview: ‘I want to show that even if every day is hard, it is worth being alive’

The artist talks about the development of his practice, and how he uses three distinct layers to add levels of meaning and interpretation to his human and territorial portraits
Klimt/Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Commemorating the centenary of the deaths of two of Austria’s great modernist artists, this exhibition showcases 100 drawings on loan from the Albertina Museum and proves them to be far more than just erotic sketches
Lotte Laserstein: Face to Face

Lotte Laserstein was a rising star of Weimar Berlin, forced to leave her country and abandon her artistic aspirations, but with this exhibition of highlights from her peak, there is hope that her name may yet not be forgotten
Jason Brooks: ‘In a world that wants to eradicate detail by airbrushing it out, I’m interested in airbrushing it in’

Ahead of his exhibition at Marlborough, London, Jason Brooks showed Studio International around his Gloucestershire studio, revealing some of his inspirations and motivations
Portraiture In Focus: Irene Barberis, Anita Taylor and Helen Sturgess

Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia 23 March–21 April 2013
Age of Transparency and Innocence: the Changing Face of Childhood

The Changing Face of Childhood: British Children’s Portraits and their Influence in Europe Städel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany and Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Germany: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, 2007
BP Portrait Award 2007

National Portrait Gallery, London 14 June – 16 September 2007 When this annual exhibition was launched 28 years ago it suffered some hostile critical reception but has now built itself into something of a national institution, and I personally try…