{"id":338,"date":"2009-01-16T04:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T08:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-01-16T04:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T08:53:01","slug":"national-portrait-gallery-mystery-postcard-gala-3309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/art\/national-portrait-gallery-mystery-postcard-gala-3309\/","title":{"rendered":"National Portrait Gallery &#8211; Mystery Postcard Gala &#8211; 3\/3\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"npg-gala-postcard-005.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/npg-gala-postcard-005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"npg-gala-postcard-005.jpg\" id=\"image337\" src=\"http:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/npg-gala-postcard-005.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Portrait Gallery are having another fund raising gala evening following their 2006 event to raise funds to purchase a number of new key portraits for the collection , such as David Hockney&#8217;s &#8220;Self portrait with Charlie&#8221;\u00a0 which they brought with the proceeds from the previous event.<\/p>\n<p>They are staging a &#8220;mystery postcard&#8221; exhibition during the gala where they ask artists to do a portrait on an A5 postcard and sign it on the back . They are then displayed all together but totally anonymously , so you just choose which image you like best rather than the artists name. All are professional artists and some extremely famous so you may just bag a bargain.<\/p>\n<p>The gallery invited me to do a postcard for the event and sent me 2 A5 cards &#8211; ( incase I made a mistake) &#8211; so I decided to do 2 portraits for them.<\/p>\n<p>I can reveal my 2 portraits on 4th March and here are the reverse sides of the portraits. They will be exhibited throughout March at the gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Portrait Gallery are having another fund raising gala evening following their 2006 event to raise funds to purchase a number of new key portraits for the collection , such as David Hockney&#8217;s &#8220;Self portrait with Charlie&#8221;\u00a0 which they brought with the proceeds from the previous event. They are staging a &#8220;mystery postcard&#8221; exhibition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewtift.co.uk\/portrait-artist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}