What's on March – June 2020

What’s On March – June 2020

The National Portrait Gallery is home to the largest collection of portraits in the world and celebrates the lives and achievements of those who have influenced British history, culture and identity.

National Portrait Gallery St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE

020 7306 0055 Recorded information 020 7312 2463

Entry to the Gallery is free An entry fee is charged for some exhibitions. Nearest Tube: Leicester Square or Charing Cross Nearest Mainline Train: Charing Cross Buses to Trafalgar Square 1

Opening Hours Daily 10.00 – 18.00 Friday Lates until 21.00 Exiting commences 10 minutes before the closing time. Ticket Desk closes, and last admission to ticketed exhibitions, one hour before the Gallery closes. Due to staff training on Monday mornings, galleries on Floor 1 and all Shops open at 11.00. Please note a transaction fee applies to tickets purchased online and over the phone.

Group Visits For organised group visits, including schools, colleges and adult groups visit npg.org.uk/learning or call 020 7312 2483.

Access Step-free access is via the Shop entrance on St Martin’s Place and the Orange Street ramp entrance. Accompany your visit with our free access resources including the BSL Gallery App, BSL audio guide, audio picture description and large print guides 2 available from the Ticket Desk. Free Audio Guides are available for all disabled visitors. For all access enquiries and for specific access requirements visit npg.org.uk/access or call 020 7321 6600. Text Direct 18001.

Explore Free WiFi is available throughout the Gallery.

Search the Collection and create your own tours using the interactive Portrait Explorer touch-screens.

Explore the Gallery with our interactive Audio Visual Guide (£3), Family Audio Visual Guide (charges apply) and our new and exclusive Choral Audio Guide (£3).

The Gallery App (£1.19 available from iTunes) includes video introductions and floorplans.

Pick up a Map to help plan your visit and support the Gallery with a donation of £1.

Download the free Smartify app and explore the Collection. Heinz Archive and Library The primary centre for the study of British Portraiture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10.00 – 17.00 by appointment only: [email protected]

Keep in touch Register online for the Gallery’s free e-newsletter and follow us on social media: npg.org.uk Instagram: @nationalportraitgallery Facebook: /nationalportraitgallery Twitter: @npglondon Our Visitor Services team are here to help and in return we ask that our visitors are courteous towards all Gallery staff.

Exhibitions Now on at the National Portrait Gallery

David Hockney: Drawing from Life

Until 28 June 2020 Full price tickets from £18 Concessions from £17 Free for Members Catalogue £29.95, hardback

David Hockney: Drawing from Life explores Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to the present by focusing on portraits of himself and those close to him: his mother Laura Hackney and friends Celia Birtwell, Gregory Evans and Maurice Payne. #HockneyDrawings

Supported by LOEWE Spring Season 2020 supported by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Future exhibitions

Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things

12 March – 7 June 2020 Full price tickets from £18 Concessions from £17 Free for Members Catalogue £35, hardback Cecil Beaton’s Cocktail Book, Hardback, £14.95

Exploring the extravagant world of the glamorous and stylish ‘Bright Young Things’ of the twenties and thirties, seen through the eye of renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton.

#CecilBeatonBYT

Spring Season 2020 sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills LLP Supported by the Noel Coward Foundation

BP Portrait Award 2020

21 May – 28 June 2020 Free admission BP Portrait Award 2020, Paperback, £9.99

After more than 30 years of sponsorship, the BP Portrait Award remains the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world. Now in its 41st year at the Gallery, the free exhibition continues to be an unmissable highlight of the annual art calendar.

#BPPortrait Supported by BP

Displays and Touring Exhibitions

Free Displays

The Gallery’s changing programme of free displays highlight a range of themes, sitters and artists, as well as significant anniversaries and acquisitions.

Florence Nightingale Until 1 May 2020 Room 25, Floor 1

Peterloo 1819: Democracy, Protest and Justice Until 1 May 2020 Room 18, Floor 2

Legends of British Industry Until 3 May 2020 Room 33, Floor 1

Shakespeare and the Plantagenets Until 28 June 2020 Room 3, Floor 2

Inspiring Photographs: Collecting for the Future Until 28 June 2020 Room 29, Floor 1

Touring exhibitions and displays

You can see a selection of the Gallery’s Collection on display at venues across the country as part of our varied National Programme.

COMING HOME A major project that sees the Gallery lend portraits of iconic individuals to places they are closely associated with. npg.org.uk/beyond/coming-home

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits 3 April - 31 August 2020 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

International

Photographs in Dialogue UAE – 1971 – UK 17 March – 12 December 2020 Etihad Museum, Dubai

Love Stories from the National Portrait Gallery, London 20 June – 23 September 2020 National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Elizabeth Peyton 27 June – 7 October 2020 UCCA Beijing, China

Find out more at: npg.org.uk/beyondthegallery

Events Calendar

Events are free unless otherwise stated. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis and are subject to availability.

Book ticketed events at npg.org.uk/events, call 020 7306 0055 or visit the Gallery in person.

We offer discounted ticket prices for Concessions and Gallery Supporters. Events are subject to change. Please check the website before visiting.

Access: All events are wheelchair accessible.

BSL: Events interpreted with British Sign Language or led in BSL. Please check listings for details.

Visualising Portraits: Picture description for visually impaired visitors.

March

Sun 1 11.00 – 13.00, 14.00 - 16.00 Families Workshop Inspiring Women Free, drop in In celebration of International Women’s Day, make a sculpture out of clay inspired by trailblazing women. Use tools provided to ‘draw’ on features and add extra decoration.

Thu 5 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London between the Wars with Francesca Wade £4/£3 In celebration of International Women's Day, biographer Francesca Wade introduces us to modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and author and publisher

Virginia Woolf: five exceptional women whose lives intertwined around Mecklenburgh Square on the radical fringes of Bloomsbury between the wars. In an era when women’s freedoms were fast expanding, they each sought a space where they could live, love and, above all, work independently.

Fri 6 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Andy Pankhurst Join artist Andy Pankhurst for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 In Conversation Celia Birtwell, Marco Livingstone and Sarah Howgate £10/£8 To celebrate the opening of David Hockney: Drawing from Life, the artist’s muse, textile designer Celia Birtwell, talks to art historian Marco Livingstone and curator Sarah Howgate about the experience of being drawn by her friend over five decades. 13

Fri 13 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Susan Wilson Join artist Susan Wilson for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Lecture David Hockney: Drawing from Life with Sarah Howgate £10/£8 Curator Sarah Howgate introduces the major new exhibition which explores Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to the present and his depictions of himself and those close to him.

19.30 BSL Tour Florence Nightingale at 200 with Alan Murray Alan Murray leads a tour of the Gallery's display marking 200 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale's 14 pioneering care of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War catapulted her into the public eye, making her a national cultural icon and an exemplar of female virtue. Led in BSL with interpretation.

Sun 15 13.00 – 16.00 Young People Workshop Drawing from Yourself Free, booking required Work with professional artist Marc Woodhead to explore themes of self-reflection plus try new drawing and collage techniques inspired by our David Hockney: Drawing from Life exhibition. All equipment and materials provided. Parent/Guardian permission required for under-18s.

Thu 19 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art with Michael Glover 15

£4/£3 Writer Michael Glover reveals how male vanity turned a piece of cloth into a bulging and absurd representation of masculinity itself.

Fri 20 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Alison Kusner Join artist Alison Kusner for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Lecture ‘When I die I want to go to Vogue’: Cecil Beaton’s Most Enduring Patron with Robin Muir £10/£8 Curator Robin Muir looks at the Cecil Beaton’s long working relationship with Vogue.

Sat 21 – Sun 22 11.00- 17.00 Weekend Workshop Drawing from Hockney: Looking at the artist’s materials and techniques with Robin-Lee Hall £150/£125 Artist Robin-Lee Hall leads a two-day workshop focusing on Hockney’ s prolific use of drawing from life to explore different ideas, techniques, materials and sitters. All materials are provided. Suitable for those with some experience of drawing.

Thu 26 14.00 – 15.00 Visualising Portraits High Society: Social Circles of Repute Picture description session for blind/vision-impaired visitors.

Fri 27 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Marc Woodhead 17

Join artist Marc Woodhead for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

18.30 Life Drawing Bright Young Things with Gayna Pelham £10/£8 This session focuses on the current exhibition of Cecil Beaton's photographs of the glamorous and extravagant "bright young things" of 1920s London. Using a combination of music, dance and costume, this session will be the perfect introduction to these deliriously eccentric figures in high society.

Sun 29 14.00 Screening Love Cecil (Dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2017, 95 mins, Cert 12) £10/£8 In this tender portrait, director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict) 18 blends archival footage and photographs with voice over of Cecil Beaton’s famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. Narrated by Rupert Everett.

April

Thu 2 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves with Andrew Lownie £4/£3 Prize-winning and bestselling historian Andrew Lownie provides a fresh and revealing portrait of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, drawing on extensive research and interviews with dozens of people who knew them closely.

Fri 3 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Robin-Lee Hall

Join artist Robin-Lee Hall for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Friday Lates Malice in Wonderland: Cecil Beaton and his Friends with Hugo Vickers £10/£8 Cecil Beaton (1904-80) was a self-creation. Through the art of photography he rose to become one of the great observers of the Twentieth Century. In this lecture, Hugo Vickers, his biographer and literary executor, explains how Cecil turned himself into this extraordinary figure.

Sat 4 11.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 16.00 Families Workshop Style and Sparkle Free, drop-in Inspired by the glamorous portraits in our new exhibition Cecil

Beaton’s Bright Young Things, have fun dressing up and creating stylish photographs with your family in our photography studio.

Sun 5 13.00 – 16.00 Young People Workshop Stylish Studio Photography Free, booking required Work with professional photographers Elizabeth Doak and Gisela Torres to explore the extravagant world of the glamorous and stylish ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 1920s and 1930s and create your own photographic portraits, developing your camera skills and confidence. All equipment and materials provided. Parent/Guardian permission required for under-18s.

Fri 10 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Andy Pankhurst Join artist Andy Pankhurst for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided. 21

19.30 BSL Tour David Hockney: Drawing from Life Chisato Minamimura explores the Gallery's new major exhibition David Hockney: Drawing from Life, which explores Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to the present by focusing on depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to him. Led in BSL.

Thu 16 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Mildred Cecil: Pregnancy Portrayed in Elizabethan England with Karen Hearn £4/£3 Art historian Karen Hearn discusses the portrait of Mildred Cooke, Lady Cecil (1526-89) in which she was painted visibly with child by Hans Eworth in about 1563 – one of the earliest examples of a ‘pregnancy portrait’ and putting this portrait in context.

Fri 17 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Gayna Pelham Join artist Gayna Pelham for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Friday Lates See website for details £10/£8

Fri 24 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Alison Kusner Join artist Alison Kusner for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

18.30 Life Drawing Hockney and his Influences with Marc Woodhead £10/£8 To coincide with the current major exhibition David Hockney: Drawing from Life, this Life Drawing session with artist Marc Woodhead explores the techniques, ideas and approaches of David Hockney, and the artists that have influenced, informed and inspired his work.

Sat 25 11.00 – 17.00 Workshop A Symphony in Silver: Beaton Photography Workshop £75/£65 Join photographer Marysa Dowling for a one-day workshop where you will construct your own Cecil Beaton inspired world of eccentric glamour in our portrait studio. Working with a model and using lighting, backdrops and everyday materials such as bubble wrap and tin foil, you will create a series of dreamy portraits inspired by Beaton's work of the '20s and '30s. 24

Thu 30 14.00 – 15.00 Visualising Portraits A Sitter’s Progress: Portraits over Time Picture description session for blind/visually impaired visitors.

May

Thu 30 18.00 Gallery Tour A History of British Versatility in Twelve Portraits We all know that Leonardo da Vinci was a many-sided genius. But what of Britain's very own polymaths? Waqās Ahmed takes you on a gallery tour of some of the most versatile men and women in British history, spotlighting their life and work to remind us that this age-old tradition of pursuing multiple seemingly unrelated fields has more relevance to today than we might think.

18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Andy Pankhurst Join artist Andy Pankhurst for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Queer Perspectives Free, booking required Gain a Queer Perspective on our Collection with resident artist Sadie Lee and her special guest as they discuss portraits which have a personal resonance.

Thu 7 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Florence Nightingale: the mysteries behind her iconic photographs £4/£3 Photo historian Denis Pellerin presents this lecture illustrated

26 with 3-D stereoscopic photographs to mark the bicentenary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.

Fri 8 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Alison Kusner Join artist Alison Kusner for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.30 BSL Tour Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things Join Serena Cant for a tour of our major exhibition which explores the extravagant world of the glamourous and stylish 'Bright Young Things' of the twenties and thirties, seen through the eye of the renowned British photographer Cecil Beaton. Led in BSL.

Fri 15 17.00 Photo London Beaton Portraits with Sir Roy Strong and William Sitwell £10/£8 Sir Roy Strong, former Director of the National Portrait Gallery, revisits Beaton Portraits, the wildly popular and ground- breaking 1968 exhibition he curated.

18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Gayna Pelham Join artist Gayna Pelham for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Photo London See website for details £10/£8

Thu 21 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Cecil Beaton: A personal perspective £4/£3 Veteran auction specialist Philippe Garner, who was instrumental in securing the Beaton Archive for Sotheby’s in 1977, gives an account of his experience of working with the renowned photographer.

Fri 22 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Robin-Lee Hall Join artist Robin-Lee Hall for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 In Conversation Dressing Up with Amrou Al-Kadhi, Crystal Rasmussen and Shahidha Bari 29

£10/£8 Marking the major exhibition, Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things, two contemporary writers and drag performers consider dressing up, self-portraiture and autobiographical writing, and the shifting grounds for queer expression over the last 100 years. In partnership with The Royal Society of Literature.

19.30 Exhibition Tour: BP Portrait Award 2020 See this year's selection of the very best of contemporary portrait painting from around the world led by an exhibiting artist.

Thu 28 14.00 – 15.00 Visualising Portraits People and Power: Social Reformers in the Collection Picture description session for blind/visually impaired visitors.

Fri 29 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Alison Kusner Join artist Alison Kusner for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

18.30 Life Drawing Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group with Andy Pankhurst £10/£8 Taking inspiration from the critic and painter Roger Fry’s aesthetic advice to express emotions through a work of art and design via five elements: rhythm of line, mass, space, light and shade, and colour, the painter Andy Pankhurst leads a dynamic evening of drawing from the posed life model demonstrating a series of such concepts while highlighting works from fellow members of the Bloomsbury Group within the collection.

Fri 29 – Sun 31 11.00 – 16.00 Young People Workshop BP Portrait Award – Next Generation three-day workshop Free, booking required This practical art workshop allows you to spend three-days in the art studio at the Gallery, learning from professional artists and working from a model to create a portrait and learn new skills in composition, lighting and pose. The BP Portrait Award exhibition provides the inspiration and exhibited artists will join the School to share their work and thinking with you. All art materials and lunch included. Parent/Guardian permission required for under-18s.

June

Thu 4 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Conversations with the Past: Hockney and the Old Masters with Isabel Seligman 32

£4/£3 Plundering the history of art for its subjects, styles, solutions and techniques, David Hockney’s conversations with the art of the past have been lively and ongoing. This talk will examine the impact of artists of the past on Hockney’s graphic portraits, in particular the work of Rembrandt, Ingres and Picasso.

Fri 5 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Marc Woodhead Join artist Marc Woodhead for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Friday Lates See website for details £10/£8

19.30 Exhibition Tour BP Portrait Award 2020 See this year's selection of the very best of contemporary portrait painting from around the world led by an exhibiting artist.

Sat 6 11.00 – 16.00 Young People Workshop BP Portrait Award: Next Generation one-day workshop Free, booking required Immerse yourself in a packed day of creativity. Learn from professional artists, discover new skills in life drawing, create your own painting, meet artists and take a tour of the BP Portrait Award exhibition. All art materials and lunch included. Activities will include working from a nude life model. Parent/Guardian permission required for under-18s.

Sun 7 11.00 – 16.00 Young People Workshop BP Portrait Award: Next Generation one-day workshop Free, booking required Immerse yourself in a packed day of creativity. Learn from professional artists, discover new skills in life drawing, create your own painting, meet artists and take a tour of the BP Portrait Award exhibition. All art materials and lunch included. Activities will include working from a nude life model. Parent/Guardian permission required for under-18s.

Fri 12 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Robin-Lee Hall Join artist Robin-Lee Hall for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

18.30 Screening A Bigger Picture (Dir. Bruno Wolheim, 2010) £10/£8 Filmed over three years, David Hockney: A Bigger Picture captures David Hockney's return from California to paint the East Yorkshire landscape of his childhood. It follows his move away from photography to find renewal in nature, working outside for the first time, through the seasons and in all weathers.

19.30 BSL Tour BP Portrait Award 2020 John Wilson leads a tour of this year's BP Portrait Award exhibition, which celebrates the very best in contemporary portrait painting from around the world. Led in BSL.

Sat 13 – Sun 14 11.00 – 17.00 Weekend Workshop 36

BP Portrait Award 2020 £150/£125 Inspired by this year’s selection in the best of contemporary portrait painting from around the world, spend two days in the studio working with a practicing artist (to be announced). Suitable for all abilities, all materials provided.

Mon 15 18.30 – 20.30 Young People BP Portrait Award – Next Generation, Private View Free, booking required The Gallery is yours for the evening. Enjoy the BP Portrait Award 2020 after-hours with live music, art workshops, competitions, refreshments and a chance to meet artists and other young creatives. RSVP required, places available on first come first served basis.

Wed 17 TBC Dalloway Day 37

See website for details

Thurs 18 13.15 Lunchtime Lecture Six Wives and their Wardrobes: Power Dressing at the Court of Henry VIII with Jacqui Ansell £4/£3 The six wives of Henry VIII have (perhaps more than any women in history) been defined in terms of their husband. Taking her cue from the highly successful show SIX the Musical, art historian Jacqui Ansell will turn the spotlight on each woman to explore the ways in which their stories have been told on stage and screen. Jacqui will decode the dynamics of dress at the Tudor court, drawing upon contemporary depictions with a particular focus on the work of great artist Hans Holbein.

Fri 19 18.30 Led by artist Andy Pankhurst

Join artist Andy Pankhurst for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided.

19.00 Friday Lates See website for details £10/£8

Thu 25 14.00 – 15.00 Visualising Portraits Inspiring Photographs: Collecting for the Future Picture description of our display of newly acquired photographic portraits for blind/visually impaired visitors.

Fri 26 18.30 Drop-in Drawing Led by artist Gayna Pelham Join artist Gayna Pelham for our popular weekly drawing session in the Gallery. Free, drop-in, all materials provided. 39

18.30 Life Drawing Drawing from Hockney with Robin-Lee Hall £10/£8 To coincide with the current major exhibition David Hockney: Drawing from Life, this Life Drawing session with artist Robin- Lee Hall explores the techniques, draughtsmanship and varied drawing materials used by David Hockney over the years. During the session, Robin will be drawing on her iPad to demonstrate Hockney’s different approaches to drawing the figure.

Ongoing Events

Portrait of the Day Free talks are given daily at 12.30 by members of the Gallery’s Visitor Services Team and last for up to 30 minutes. Talks are subject to change so please call 0207 306 0055 on the day or check signage in the Gallery.

Highlights Tours Free Highlights tours are given on Saturdays by members of the Gallery’s Visitor Services Team. Spaces are limited, so please turn up early to avoid any disappointment. The tours will start in the main hall at 11.00 and 15.00 and will last for approximately 45 minutes – 1 hour.

Portrait Restaurant

Brighten your day with our scrumptious afternoon tea this winter. See npg.org.uk/portraitrestaurant for menus and packages. To discuss your requirements call 020 7312 2490 or email [email protected]

Shop

From our Collection to yours Discover the full range of gifts, books and products inspired by our exhibition and the Collection, available exclusively from Gallery Shops and online. Every purchase supports the National Portrait Gallery npgshop.org.uk

Membership

Enjoy three years for the price of one. Get free unlimited entry to David Hockney: Drawing from Life and Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things and many more benefits. Visit npg.org.uk/members, call 020 7321 6283 or visit the Gallery in person.

Inspiring People

Make History From 29 June 2020 the Gallery in St Martin’s Place will temporarily close while essential building works for the Inspiring People project take place. The transformed Gallery, designed by Jamie Fobert Architects, will reopen in spring 20203 with a comprehensive re-display of the Collection, significant refurbishment of the building and new public spaces including a more welcoming visitor entrance, public forecourt and state of the art Learning Centre.

The Collection during closure Key works from the Gallery’s Collection will remain on public display through a diverse series of nationwide collaborations and partnerships. The Gallery will continue to grow its international touring programme, and the public can also explore the Gallery’s Collection online at npg.org.uk

Members Members will continue to receive benefits throughout the closure period. Everyone joining or renewing in 2020 will receive three years of benefits for the price of one, including access to curator-led tours, special discounts and much more. For more information contact the Membership team at membership@npg/org.uk

Shop, Restaurant and Café The Portrait Restaurant, Portrait café and the Gallery’s onsite shops will close from 29 June 2020. However the online shop

43 will continue to sell a wide range of unique prints, gifts and books. npgshop.org.uk

The Heinz Archive and Library The archive and library will remain accessible via appointment throughout the building project. npg.org.uk/research/archive

Schools Programme From September 2020 – March 2023 we will be offering a new Schools Outreach Programme in London working with select London boroughs. To find out more visit npg.org.uk/learning/schools-and-colleges

Support the project The Make History campaign offers various ways to support our fundraising efforts. Find out more at npg.org.uk/support

Keep up to date The temporary closure of the building in St Martin’s Place will be phased, with some displays closing from late May 2020 leading to full closure by 29 June 2020.

Visit npg.org.uk/inspiringpeople for the latest information and sign up to our free e-newsletter.

Inspiring People is designed by Jamie Fobert Architects and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.