A new display at the National Portrait Gallery, The Actress Now, will see newly acquired photographs of Vanessa Redgrave, Sienna Miller, Rosamund Pike, Gemma Arterton and Joanna Lumley go on show for the first time alongside other works of drawn from the Gallery’s Collection.
The 39 works in the display vary from an oil painting of Helen Mirren by Ishbel Myerscough to a ceramic sculpture of Glenda Jackson by Glenys Barton. The new acquisitions by Sarah Dunn, Jillian Edelstein, Francesco Guidicini, Elisabeth Hoff and Chris Floyd.
Fiona Shaw by Victoria Kate Russell © National Portrait Gallery, London
Gemma Arterton by Sarah Dunn, 2009 © Sarah Dunn
Sienna Miller by Elisabeth Hoff, 2011 © Elisabeth Hoff
Harriet Walter by Geoff Wilson © Geoff Wilson
Natalie Dormer by Chris Floyd, 2007 © Chris Floyd
Rosamund Pike by Sarah Dunn, 2005 © Sarah Dunn
Sophie Okonedo © Sal Idriss / National Portrait Gallery, London
Vanessa Redgrave by Jillian Edelstein, 2008 © Jillian Edelstein
The Actress Now will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 20 October 2011 to 8 January 2012.