A new display revealing a unique artistic collaboration inspired by the close friendship of two painters over many years is to open at the National Portrait Gallery on Thursday 11 June 2015. With new portraits and many seen for the first time, Friendship Portraits: Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough is the first joint display of works by the two artists and follows their shared history from their student days at Glasgow School of Art to the present. Amongst them and reflecting this important collaboration is a newly acquired painting for the Gallery’s permanent collection Two Girls by Ishbel Myerscough, announced today. Myerscough painted the double portrait for her graduation show at Glasgow School of Art in 1991. The self-portraits, portraits of each other, and of their children have been a consistent thread in the artists’ work and it is in these that, in Chantal Joffe’s words, the ‘ongoing

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