Jersey gives National Portrait Gallery hologram of the Queen

 
Hologram: The image of the Queen by artist Chris Levine
Louise Jury2 May 2012

The first ever holographic portrait of the Queen has been given to the National Portrait Gallery by the Island of Jersey as a demonstration of its loyalty to the Crown.

The portrait was commissioned in 2004 from artist Chris Levine and holographer Rob Munday by the Jersey Heritage Trust to celebrate the island’s 800-year relationship with the monarchy.

The work now donated to the gallery is a new, more technically refined version of the original, called Equanimity.

And it will now go on display as part of the exhibition, The Queen: Art and Image, which opens in London on May 17.

Senator Philip Ozouf, treasury and resources minister for the States of Jersey, said: “The presentation of this iconic image of Her Majesty the Queen to the National Portrait Gallery, during the year of her Diamond Jubilee, is a great honour and an opportunity for us to demonstrate Jersey’s loyalty to the Crown and international standing.”

The painting was produced after two sittings with the Queen during which more than 10,000 individual photographic images were made using a tracking camera. Computer technology was then used to process this visual information to produce the final portrait.

Sandy Nairne, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, said Equanimity was the first holographic royal portrait to enter the collection and marked a significant development in the iconography of the Queen.

For more, visit www.npg.org.uk

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