Join Rosie Broadley, exhibition curator of Francis Bacon: Human Presence, and art historian and curator, Michael Peppiatt, for a special in conversation exploring the major new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Providing a rare insight into Francis Bacon’s life and career, Michael Peppiatt will take you on a journey, discussing many never-before-seen letters between Francis Bacon and his friends, several of which are letters from Bacon to Michael Peppiatt. Exhibition curator Rosie Broadley will provide insight into the exhibition and themes.
This event will be followed by a book signing of Francis Bacon: A Self Portrait in Words with Michael Peppiatt in our main shop.
£15 (£12 Members / concessions)
Michael Peppiatt has curated numerous exhibitions, notably retrospectives of Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti in Europe and the US and travelling exhibitions of the “School of London” (Bacon, Freud, Auerbach, Kossoff, Andrews) in cities across Europe from Copenhagen and Paris to Vienna and Venice.
In 2005, Michael was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Cambridge for his published work in the field of 20th-century art. He is a member of the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2010 he joined the international board of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. Michael’s new publication Francis Bacon: A Self Portrait in Words is an anthology of Francis Bacon’s statements, letters, little-known interviews and studio notes, and the first of several memoirs.
Rosie Broadley is Joint Head of Curatorial and Senior Curator of 20th-Century Collections at the National Portrait Gallery where she has worked since 2006, having started as Assistant Curator. She most recently curated the major exhibition Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm (2023), now touring in the US and Japan. She has worked on numerous displays and exhibitions across the Gallery’s Collection, including the complete redisplay of the National Portrait Gallery in 2023; and has also worked with artists on several commissions for the Collection including portraits the actress Dame Maggi Smith, opera singer Sir Willard White and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.
