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Here’s Looking At You – or how to read a portrait

Your eyes meet across a crowded room, the air is heavy with expectation and you’re struggling to find the right words. No, it’s not Cupid’s arrow – you’re at the BP Portrait Award and it’s time to release your inner art critic.

13 Jun 2007 12:00

Angela Meredith

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Visual Arts

We are used to seeing images of the famous, infamous – and not so famous – thrust at us daily, but many of us still stand tongue-tied when we come face-to-face with the traditional, painted portrait.

Rosie Broadley is an assistant curator at London’s National Portrait Gallery – home of the annual BP Portrait Award exhibition.

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Angela Meredith

About the Author

Angela Meredith is a freelance journalist/writer who covers the Arts, travel and leisure and consumer health. Her work has appeared on websites such as Men’s Health, Discovery Health and TravelZoo – and this year she worked on the launch of the website Moneypage.com as Travel/Leisure writer. She contributes accident and health and safety news to a personal injury website and has written extensively for the b2b journal Pharmacy Business. Angela is a former winner of Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award for new playwrights and has written for BBC TV. In 2007 she was short listed for the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook’s New Novel Award. She began her career as an actress and still acts occasionally. She is a full member of the NUJ and Equity and has a BA (Joint Hons) in Literature & History of Art and an MA in Literature.