Tag: Portrait of Britain

Finding Identity Through Illness: This Week’s People’s Choice Winning Portrait

Lucus Joyce’s weekly People’s Choice winning portrait is a haunting image of his friend Ashley, who lives with pernicious anemia. Inspired by the thousand yard stare, a term often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them, Joyce sought to use the portrait to depict the many aspects of Ashley’s life and identity.

13 April 2018

A portrait of motherhood

Morris’s selected portrait for Portrait of Britain 2017 is part of her series exploring the many ways one can be a mother

29 September 2017