Has the National Portrait Gallery refurbishment been a success?

By Tom Lowe2023-07-04T06:00:00

Britain’s most establishment art gallery has reinvented itself as a palace of inclusion. Tom Lowe looks at whether the project, designed by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell, has worked.

A set of three towering bronze doors greets you as you walk up to the new front entrance of the transformed National Portrait Gallery. On these newly commissioned portals are etched 45 portraits drawn by the artist Tracey Emin. Representing women of all ages and ethnicities, they are intended to counterbalance the line-up of men depicted on roundels above the first-floor windows.

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