The Anti-National Portrait Gallery
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Latest News
We did it! 100% Funded 
April 27th - via: kickstarter.com
Darlings, Thank-you so much for believing in this project and pledging your cash! It means that there will be the an AntiNational Portrait Gallery Exhibition in June! I’m so excited! As soon as the funds are cleared, I can begin to get out your... (Read More)
How a Pithy Title could get you in Trouble
April 26th - via: kickstarter.com
The whole idea of this project was borne out of the play on words that ‘The Antinational Portrait Gallery’ threw up. That it takes the famous London landmark and subverts it. I’ve spent many a happy hour traipsing around the NPG, I especially... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: Guanqi Xu
April 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Guanqi is a post-graduate at Edinburgh University studying Book History, she is from the North-East region of China known as 'the beak of the rooster'. Her desire to study abroad was motivated by a curiousity of books and to see an interesting part... (Read More)
Please Tell a Friend Today
April 19th - via: kickstarter.com
To my 36 brilliant backers, I have a week left to fund the kickstarter and I have 648 pounds to go! If each of you managed to get one of your friends to pledge, it’s likely it would go over the target amount. It’s just an idea, no pressure, but... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: Penny Arcade
April 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Penny Arcade (b. 1950) Performance Artist, Actor, Writer ‘Love someone and let someone love you back.It’s the most political act you can make.’ - Penny Arcade I became aware of Penny Arcade many years ago when watching a documentary about... (Read More)
Stepping it up a gear
April 11th - via: kickstarter.com
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Negativity
April 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Criticism is all part and parcel of a creative’s work. If what you do is seen by the public, friends or family - it’s going to be open to their commentary. In the past, people would read up or ‘think’ before they spoke, or sometimes even kept... (Read More)
Portraits In Focus: James Robert Faulkner
April 9th - via: kickstarter.com
'Nothing has delighted me except art' - Kenneth Williams James Robert Faulkner (b. 1982) Milliner, PerformerIt was the performance artist and general scoundrel Scottee who first introduced me to JRF. I was told of a group... (Read More)
Week 1 Update
April 6th - via: kickstarter.com
‘Seven days, seeeveeeeen daaaaays’ whispered Samara down the telephone to cursed journalist - that’s what happens in that film Ring, have you seen it? It’s dead good, I prefer the Japanese one actually but Naomi Watts does try in the remake!... (Read More)
£10 Doodle Portraits
April 5th - via: kickstarter.com
It seems my most popular reward is the little doodle portraits I’ve promised in return for cold hard giro money! They’ll be done on nice quality cartridge paper (that’s posh arty paper) with pen and ink (makes it look even posher) and they come... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: Mark Hewitt
April 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
"Only in Northern Ireland will you be asked: 'Yes, but are you a Catholic Atheist or a Protestant Atheist?'" - Christopher Hitchens I’m the first to admit, I often don’t know what I’m talking about. Yet, due to some chemical imbalance I’m... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: Jayda Fransen
April 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
You most likely haven’t heard of this individual, and you’re probably lucky not to have. She is the ‘deputy leader’ of Britain First, a far-right hate group who have been banned from Twitter and Facebook. You may know of the group because... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: The Last Homosapien
April 1st - via: kickstarter.com
"If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existent." - O' Brien, 1984 (George Orwell) The Last HomosapienThere will come a... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: Patty Dohle
March 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Patty Dohle (b. 1977) Writer, Bookseller I met Patty quite by chance, whilst I was at University. It's become legendary (amongst ourselves) that I crawled about on the floor of the bookshop where she worked. This is partly true, and there was some... (Read More)
Portraits in Focus: Carl Sagan
March 30th - via: kickstarter.com
It's been 24 hours since the launch and the kickstarter has already raised nearly £500 - that covers the gallery hire! Another £450 means I can pay for the studio hire to make the portraits. Every day during the kickstarter, I'm writing a little... (Read More)
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