Self-portraits 1905-1950

A collection of writings and artwork on the subject of colour and colour theory.

Images from Dancing with Borromini series, relating to the philosophical arguments in the journal.

Comparing two portraits in depth. Henry VII by an unknown artist 1505 and Diana Princess of Wales by Bryan Organ, 1981. Both Collection NPG.

9 Illustrations from - Dancing with Borromini - to the text

25th Anniversary Show. 2012 International Photobooth Convention

Technical beginnings and Early Photography. Art & photography; the wider context. The photographic studio. Contemporary photographic techniques. Self image: six pairs of photographic self-portraits.

Session part of the'Social Dynamics and Technology Transfer' stream on the 10th November. The cotton industry past and its relationship to the present – in India and Manchester.

"NO SUBJECT" is an online exhibition of photographs by seven artists, selected by Nina Zurier. The title refers to a type of photograph in which image takes precedence over subject (or object). These photographs are documents (as are all photographs), but they are not "documentary" in the sense of recording places, people, or events. These photographs have been chosen for their quality of "image as image", as described by Charlotte Cotton in her excellent book The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Some of them are staged, some are collaged and incorporate drawing, and some are simply beautiful images taken with an iPhone.

Comparisons between the Indian Portrait 1560-1860 and works in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Drawing parallels between paintings in the exhibition and the Collection that were made at a similar time, for similar reasons and which share compositions and techniques.The comparisons selected connect parallel symbolism, structure, narrative, allegory, themes of royalty, propaganda and domestic life.

Survey of the Automatic Portrait

Veiling, wrapping and entwining the body with material. Discussing Edward Said. Fancy dress in oriental fashion

Foreword by Liz Rideal

Permanent installation at the Oxford/Radcliffe Trust.

The resource looks at the relationship between photography and portraiture in the work of Gerhard Richter, considering how photographs inform his painting and making comparisons with artists in the National Portrait Gallery who have similar concerns and working methods. Reviewing the work of artists in the collection whose reliance on photography has been documented. These are the Victorian painter G.F. Watts (1817-1904), his friend the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), the ground breaking work of Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) and the commissioned portrait by Jason Brooks (b.1968). Their working practices are compared with that of Gerhard Richter, in the exhibition, Gerhard Richter Portraits (26 February - 31 May 2009.

NPG Identity image used

Face to face talk Liz Rideal discusses John Singelton Copeley's self-portrait on display in the exhibition "American Origins" recorded at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, USA 26 September 2009

This book focuses on making prints from found or cheap objects - as opposed to highly expensive printing machines and computers.

Ron Bowen is an American artist and teacher living in Paris. He taught at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1977 and 1997, and has taught art at all levels of experience from novice to professional. His book, "A Drawing Masterclass" was published by Random House in 1992. This is a web based interactive drawing class comprising: Masterclass 1 | Masterclass 2 with further relevant links to: Games | This is me| Investigating Drawing Self-portrait drawings in the collection

The notes focus on interconnecting themes within the movement of Pop Art. Written to underpin the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery 11.10.07-20/20/01/08

This distance learning package is aimed at art students, teachers and adults. * Introduction * Context * Definitions and useful words * Making a perspective drawing * The Drawing Machine * Circle in perspective * Sphere in perspective * Drawing

Hanging sculpture at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre.

The differences between the heavens they seek and the comparatively dark, messy earth they are limited to charge their work with both political and environmental concerns--this is no heaven. And yet sometimes they make it seem so.

Unlike portraits painted in other centuries, those produced in the twentieth century tend to be painted wholly by each individual artist whereas in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries collaborations were common. Twentieth-century works tend to reflect more of an artist’s individual stylistic achievement. Due to the pervasive influence of the photographic portrait, the twentieth-century painted portrait developed a slightly different brief. Artists have gone down a multitude of roads to try to resolve the problem of creating a likeness whilst retaining their artistic integrity. Naturally ‘pot-boilers’ still exist, as do works that obviously flatter sitters, works that merely document a sitter’s prestige and of course portraits that simply reiterate the photographic through technical prowess.

Commission for the Contemporary Art Society for the contemporary textiles collection at Nottingham Castle Museum.

An interactive website discussing all aspects of male and female self-portraits - almost all of the examples are taken from the National Portrait Gallery collection. A self-portrait can be as varied and limitless as our imaginations. It is more than a mere mirror reflection. A self-portrait can be an exact likeness or an abstract whirl of thoughts and feelings. It has the potential to create a myth, tell a story, suggest sadness or joy. A self-portrait is a person's version of themselves.

Scanachrome installation

In the early twenty-first century we are so familiar with the photograph and technically reproduced imagery, that to imagine a world without these visuals is hard. The invention of photography was such an astonishing achievement in the mid nineteenth century that perhaps its only imaginable equivalent might be the first human steps taken on the moon's surface and robotic vehicles landing on Mars. Photography now relates to everything within society and art. In portraiture, the impact of photography is huge; the correlation between 'reality' and 'likeness' as perceived within the format of the photograph is undeniable. This combination of illusion and real life, guarantees its continuing success as a medium for this purpose, whether digital, moving or other lens based methods of making portraits.

Correlation between pattern making in portraits and within Rideal's artworks

8 self-portraits discussed in detail

Poly Styrene, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Nadar and Warhol...multiple portraits and identities.

The self-portrait has always been an artist's most intriguing vehicle for analysis and self-expression. This exhibition brings together all of the self-portraits by women artists from the Gallery's collection alongside loans and new works acquired or commissioned by the Gallery for this exhibition. Exhibition description and virtual tour, publication details.

These notes focus on particular aspects of contemporary portraiture as revealed in the BP Portrait Award Exhibition. They concentrate on aspects of portrait production and commission.

Artist residencies in Stoke on Trent

The interactive site concentrates on a variety of disguised self presentations documented within the genre of portraiture. The idea that the portrait ISN'T some form of disguise is interesting, after all it is always an interpretation of a presence. There is no guarantee that the sitter is not 'naturally disguised' when sitting for a portrait, this being often a peculiar and sometimes difficult experience to submit to.

A teaching aid investigating 8 works in a variety of media, produced at different times in history, between C16th & C20th. Symbolism, scale, palette, style & pose, artist/sitter relationship

Discussion of different materials and techniques used in drawn portraits since the sixteenth century. Examples and notes on drawing materials.

One of the most famous restaurants in the world opens the doors to its kitchen, offering scores of superb recipes.

A selection made to complement my retrospective exhibition and hung 'salon style'.

Film shot in central London Waterloo garden documenting flowers as they bloom in sequence, in the manner of C17th Dutch painters would create still life paintings of flowers.

CD cover for 'Jazz, Dining & Tribeca' produced by the Knitting Factory New York

Liz Rideal discusses the constraints and possibilities for modelling a millennial gallery education department within a 19th century museum.

Exhibition curated Touring to Eastbourne, York, Bath, Brighton, Canterbury,1994

WORK illustrated in this survey

How sitters choose to 'fancy' dress for their portraits : a Duchess as a milkmaid, a nobleman in Van Dyck costume, an artist as Neptune,

Computer installation by Julie Myers juxtaposed with work by Andy Warhol, Huysmans and Lely.

Drawings on paper which exemplify different drawing techniques and media, reflecting the varied style of British portraiture.

Comparing photographic and drawn or painted portraits.

Curation of: Double Take - Comparing the art of graphic and photographic portraiture, touring to nine U.K. venues.

Curation of this interactive exhibition

Hand tinted photobooth images specific to the poem.

Curation of this exhibition - the first devoted entirely to the subject of self-portraiture in the history of the NPG

Curation of exhibition studying the art of preparation and the use of the sketchbook

Curation of exhibition studying the methods of the journeyman painter

Curation of an exhibition that looks at the importance of directional lighting in period portrait photography

Curation of an exhibition comparing the impact of the miniature portrait with the large scale painted portrait

Curation of an interactive exhibition investigating the methods and materials of sculptors

Curation of an exhibition investigating early workshop copies and contemporary methods of reprographics - the postcard and the lightbox

All about the booth and the National Portrait Gallery Project

Curation of an exhibition focusing on artists such as Van Aken and Peter Toms who painted backdrops for Reynolds and Hudson in the Eighteenth century

Interview and review of and about the work of artist Rose Garraard

Interview with Charlie Hooker

Curation of exhibition of work of young adults from Newcastle upon Tyne by artist in residence Helen Chadwick