The Tudors Deconstructed Collection

Luxury vintage-inspired velvet fabric, Blackpop was invited to make a response to the National Portrait Gallerys world-renowned Tudor paintings.

Blackpop collaborates with the National Portrait Gallery.
‘The Tudor Collection - Deconstructed’

‘Working with the team at the National Portrait Gallery and these amazing paintings has been a complete privilege. Being able to examine and reimagine over 20 works to create abstract, contemporary patterns has been a creatives dream. The richness and depth of the colour palette alone gives these new designs an edge and a stand out wow factor that I am very excited to call our second collection’.

Maxine Hall Designer/Director

Many of the images were taken as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s Making Art in Tudor Britain research project, which has deepened understanding the Gallery’s collection of sixteenth-century portraits through close examination of the paintings, using imaging techniques such as photomicroscopy, x-radiography and infrared reflectography.

‘The National Portrait Gallery is delighted to be working with Blackpop on The Tudor Collection Deconstructed and excited by the creativity displayed in these beautiful designs’.
Nicola Saunders, Head of Business Development, National Portrait Gallery.