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08/09/2005
Rowling portrait unveiled in London
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling unveiled a three-dimensional portrait of herself at the National Portrait Gallery in London last night.
Stuart Pearson Wright, winner of the 2001 BP portrait award, was commissioned by the Gallery's trustees to paint a portrait of Rowling.
A three-dimensional construction in mixed media, it is a full-length portrait, showing her at a table with a notepad, eating a boiled egg and toast soldiers.
As she unveiled the portrait, Rowling said: "This genuinely is the first time that I have seen this and I love it. I have to say it is quite unnerving to see yourself presented like this and to stand here and recognise it as me.
"But this shows more of me than any photo has ever shown. Stuart and I had the most incredible laughs doing this and of course I am delighted and honoured to be here in the National Portrait Gallery Collection."
Wright said that he had been influenced by 18th-century toy theatres.
"It felt like being a kind of director bringing together a set design, actors and props and then lighting the whole thing," he said.
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