NPG 085 FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
Along with a revamped website, the gallery has now unveiled its 2023–24 programme of major exhibitions. These will include a celebration of the photographer Yevonde Middleton – Yevonde: Life and Colour (22 June – 15 October), exploring her pioneering work immortalising sitters like Vivien Leigh in colour, and Margaret Sweeney who in 1951 became the Duchess of Argyll – ‘the dirty duchess’ of great notoriety; Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm (28 June – 1 October) showing his never-before-seen photography; and David Hockney: Drawing from Life (2 November 2023 – 21 January 2024), a celebrated exhibition that was previously cut short after 20 days, when the gallery was closed by the pandemic in 2020. Looking ahead to 2024, visitors can expect shows like The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure (22 February – 19 May 2024), spotlighting contemporary artists from across the African diaspora; and the work of two ground-breaking female photographers Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In (21 March – 30 June 2024).
‘Let’s hope we can all enjoy a transformed gallery in the years to come [that] will not require yet
another revamp so soon after the last one’
it has been shut since 2020. Controversial to say the least, it has meant that hundreds of works from the collection have been on tour during construction. Transforming the gallery’s profile has meant a new logo that has been in use since 25 January. Designed by Peter Horridge, it was based on a sketch from 1893 by the gallery’s first director, Sir George Scharf, which was discovered in the archive. Together with the logotype, a new typeface NPG Serif has been created by Monotype. A brand strategy has been devised by Edit together with Boardroom Consulting. Horridge’s work has most recently been seen on the emblem of the coronation for Charles III, an update of the eagle symbol and script logotype of the brewers Anheuser Busch, and the logo for Terra Carta, King Charles’ sustainable markets initiative. Let’s hope we can all enjoy a transformed gallery in the years to come and that this latest effort will not require yet another revamp so soon after the last one, and yet another search for a philanthropist.
Clockwise from top left The spacious exhibition rooms allow for a careful, meditative quality to exploring the gallery’s collection, enhanced by sensitive use of both natural and artificial lighting to ensure the best experience possible for visitors
ALL IMAGES: GARETH GARDNER / NISSEN RICHARDS STUDIO
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