Picture This

‘Picture This,’ is a brand new series of conversations, hosted by journalist and presenter of the BBC’s 'This Cultural Life', John Wilson. Special guests from a wide variety of fields, including fashion, music, literature and film, will join John to reflect on their life and work through the lens of a National Gallery painting.

This April, join us for a special evening with renowned British artist Maggi Hambling as she joins John Wilson to reflect on Rembrandt‘s 'Self Portrait at the Age of 63'.

Maggi Hambling CBE is a renowned British contemporary artist. From her formative period at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the early 1960s, then at the Slade and Camberwell, she was the first artist-in-residence at the National Gallery in 1980. Hambling has maintained a singular place in the global sphere of contemporary art. Love, death, and remembrance are revealed as her enduring themes, and are reflected in her intimate portraits as much as her epic-scaled evocations of war, the climate emergency, and the natural world. Hambling’s work has been the subject of many solo museum shows most recently across the UK and China and is held in public collections including at Tate, British Museum, CAFA, Beijing and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This is a livestream of the event taking place in the Pigott Theatre. If you would prefer to attend the event in person, please book tickets here.