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Jason Brooks: Paul Nurse and
Other Works
24 May - 26 October 2008
Room 40
Sir Paul Nurse
by Jason Brooks, 2008
Commissioned with support from JPMorgan
through the Fund for New Commissions
© National Portrait Gallery
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This
display focuses on the work of Jason Brooks, a contemporary artist
who explores the boundaries of portraiture. The centrepiece is
Brooks's recently commissioned portrait of Sir Paul Nurse, who
was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in cancer
research. From a distance the painting is sharply defined, but
close-up it is made up of abstracted forms; an attempt, in the
artist's words, to 'get lost in somebody's structure'. |
