Inside Out festival launches with a pop up exhibition of National Gallery masterpieces

Free outdoor Art on the streets of London? What’s not to love! Westminster City Council and partners have teamed up to present Inside Out – a new Free festival to bring art, culture and entertainment to the masses.

Feast your eyes on 20 life-sized replicas of some of The National Gallery’s most famous and adorned paintings in Trafalgar Square. You will be able to marvel at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888), Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire (1839), Botticelli’s Venus and Mars (1485), Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-3) and John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821) along with fifteen other incredible paintings.

Fancy tapping into your inner Picasso? head towards one of the 30 easels next to the pop up exhibition, all set up for you to sketch or paint your very own masterpiece.

Look out for more events, workshops and installations in the coming months, including:

1. An expansive 1400 sqm floor painting by artist Lakwena on the roof terrace above Temple Underground Station.

2. A pride of life-sized lions for the Tusk Lion Trail.

3. 30 hanging flags and 13 pedestrian crossings taken over by five Royal Academy artists in the area around Piccadilly.

4. The National Portrait Gallery will present an open-air exhibition of pioneering women on Villiers Street.

5. The Photographers’ Gallery will be coming outside with a free vintage photo booth, with all portraits forming a forthcoming outdoor gallery in Ramillies Street and so much more!

To find out more information on the upcoming exhibitions, outdoor art and activities, visit: https://www.westminster.gov.uk/westminster-reveals

Written by Nyla S.

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