12 August 2025 • Mark Westall
Today, the National Portrait Gallery has announced the four photographers shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
9 August 2025 • Tabish Khan
Beauty, spikes, sculpture, patterns and portraits.
20 July 2025 • Tabish Khan
Jenny Saville, Hiroshige, an explosion, sign language and Leigh Bowery.
26 June 2025 • Oliver Malin
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting
29 May 2025 • Mark Westall
Three artists have been shortlisted for prizes, with forty-six portraits selected for final display in a free exhibition opening on 10th July.
11 March 2025 • Mark Westall
The international competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography, is inviting submissions.
24 February 2025 • Meike Brunkhorst
Forever young faces grace the walls of the NPG in celebration of the role The Face played in capturing British youth culture through the decades.
6 January 2025 • Mark Westall
We’ve decided to focus on London and choose some of the most interesting exhibitions
31 December 2024 • Meike Brunkhorst
There was a flurry of major London exhibitions in the first half of this year that embraced aspects of previously… Read More
20 December 2024 • Tabish Khan
Monet, Bacon, a dance floor, gold and Mars
5 December 2024 • Mark Westall
Announced today, FRAMELESS Creative, a leading creator of immersive experiences, has entered into an innovative partnership with the National Portrait… Read More
2 December 2024 • Jasper Spires
The paintings of Francis Bacon have never failed to provoke a sense of unease. Exhibited currently in the National Portrait… Read More
12 November 2024 • Mark Westall
Steph Wilson’s prize-winning portrait challenges conventional notions of motherhood as part of her ongoing series Ideal Mother.
9 September 2024 • Mark Westall
Have you got a ticket to the upcoming Oasis gigs? Well if you have or haven’t you can definitely maybe… Read More
28 August 2024 • Mark Westall
The appointment, made by the National Portrait Gallery’s Board of Trustees, was approved by the Prime Minister, and Victoria Siddall will take up the post in Autumn 2024.
13 August 2024 • Mark Westall
The National Portrait Gallery has announced the shortlist for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024. 62 portraits by 55… Read More
10 August 2024 • Tabish Khan
Migration, Apartheid, isolation, Queens and X-rays.
31 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Today, the National Portrait Gallery announced the display of ‘Gloria’ (2023), a portrait depicting the British singer and songwriter, Sam Smith
18 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Francis Bacon: Human Presence will be the first exhibition in nearly 20 years to place its focus on the artist’s portraits.
6 May 2024 • Tabish Khan
Sculpture, figures, performance, textiles and William Blake.
30 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, today announced the five museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024
18 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Three artists have been shortlisted for the prestigious Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024, which makes a welcome return to the National… Read More
15 April 2024 • Mark Westall
Silent Testimony is a new display at the National Portrait Gallery, featuring eighteen large-scale portraits by Belfast-born artist, Colin Davidson.
26 March 2024 • Mark Westall
Entries are now open for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024
