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Introduction to the National Portrait Gallery Collection

Curators talk about highlights in the National Portrait Gallery Collection.

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation

BP Portrait Award: Next Generation is a dynamic project inspiring 14-19-year-olds about portraiture through the BP Portrait Award.

In the lead up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Next Generation encourages young artists by opening up opportunities to meet and gain insights from past BP Portrait Award artists, make and share their own artwork and connect with other young people.

This playlist is an archive of videos created for the Next Generation project website including films made by a crew of young people.

Tudor and Jacobean Painting Conference 2010

Extracts from the conference 'Tudor and Jacobean Painting: Production, Influences and Patronage' hosted by the National Portrait Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art in December 2010, and funded by the British Academy and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

The Making Art in Tudor Britain project based at the National Portrait Gallery aims to help transform our understanding of artistic production in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Britain. By undertaking a scientific survey on over 120 of the Gallery's most important portraits it is exploring the production, influences and patronage of painted imagery at this period. A three day conference in December 2010 with around 25 speakers explored these questions.

Creative Careers: Creating Exhibitions

Go behind the scenes of an exhibition and discover creative and career opportunities in Museums and Galleries at http://cmd.npg.org.uk/ National Portrait Gallery.
See how exhibition displays are selected and put together. From the research and planning to the implementation and evaluation.

Road to 2012: Aiming High

Welcome to the National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 project. Explore the journey towards the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and get involved. See the story so far through the commissioned photographs, exclusive interviews with photographers and athletes and behind the scenes shots.

Road to 2012 - East London Disability Swim Group

The Road to 2012 participation projects focus on engaging local people living and studying in the Olympic host-boroughs with artistic practice and the main Olympic themes being explored by the National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project.

Participants from the East London Disability Swim Group (based in Hackney) were photographed by Katherine Green.

© Katherine Green/National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 project

Road to 2012 - Blackheath Fencing Club

The Road to 2012 participation projects focus on engaging local people living and studying in the Olympic host-boroughs with artistic practice and the main Olympic themes being explored by the National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project.

Participants from Blackheath Fencing Club were photographed by Katherine Green.

© Katherine Green/National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 project