If you, like me, are always wishing you did something a little more cultured on Friday night, as opposed to over-priced drinks and facing national rail a few wines down on the way home, then Friday night’s Late Shift at the National Portrait Gallery might be right up your street.

Taking place every Friday night, the drop-in drawing sessions encourage you to get creative and practice those art skills you might have forgotten since GSCE. Each session is led by a professional artist and all materials are provided for you, so no carrying a pad of paper and pencils around all day.

Last week’s session focused on how we relate to faces. The task was to pick a face in the gallery and change one facial feature each time you drew it. It was amazing to see how one different feature can change a whole face, and how we associate archetypal personalities with different faces. This prompted the question; does the way we, and others, relate to our faces change how they interact with us and then change how we ourselves act?

Late Shift at the NPG holds a variety of different events on other nights of the week, including live DJ sets, philosophical debates, and special events such as poetry reading and film screenings.

You can check out what else the Late Shift has to offer here.


If you, like me, are always wishing you did something a little more cultured on Friday night, as opposed to over-priced drinks and facing national rail a few wines down on the way home, then Friday night’s Late Shift at the National Portrait Gallery might be right up your street.

Taking place every Friday night, the drop-in drawing sessions encourage you to get creative and practice those art skills you might have forgotten since GSCE. Each session is led by a professional artist and all materials are provided for you, so no carrying a pad of paper and pencils around all day.

Last week’s session focused on how we relate to faces. The task was to pick a face in the gallery and change one facial feature each time you drew it. It was amazing to see how one different feature can change a whole face, and how we associate archetypal personalities with different faces. This prompted the question; does the way we, and others, relate to our faces change how they interact with us and then change how we ourselves act?

Late Shift at the NPG holds a variety of different events on other nights of the week, including live DJ sets, philosophical debates, and special events such as poetry reading and film screenings.

You can check out what else the Late Shift has to offer here.

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