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National Portrait Gallery

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Gillian Wearing: Spiritual Family

National Portrait Gallery · London, United Kingdom · 9 Jan 2026 to 10 Jan 2027

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Four self-portraits from Gillian Wearing's 2008-2013 Spiritual Family series, in which she uses costume and prosthetics to become artists who shaped her practice, including Diane Arbus, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol and Claude Cahun.

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