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| Jonathan Yeo's Malala Yousafzai portrait goes on show for first time | Jonathan Yeo's Malala Yousafzai portrait goes on show for first time |
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| A portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban after campaigning for girls' education, will be seen in public for the first time on Wednesday as part of an exhibition of works by the artist Jonathan Yeo. | |
| The National Portrait Gallery is staging a show dedicated to one of the UK's most highly regarded portrait artists. There are images of well-known figures such as Kevin Spacey, Damien Hirst and Helena Bonham Carter and to that list must now be added 16-year-old Malala, who is portrayed doing her homework. | |
| Malala was attacked and shot as she travelled home from school in Pakistan last year. She was successfully treated in a Birmingham hospital and now lives in the city, where she recently opened its new £188m library and continues to be an education campaigner. | Malala was attacked and shot as she travelled home from school in Pakistan last year. She was successfully treated in a Birmingham hospital and now lives in the city, where she recently opened its new £188m library and continues to be an education campaigner. |
| Yeo first met Malala and her family last April, when she was still recovering from injuries, but had started at a new school. | Yeo first met Malala and her family last April, when she was still recovering from injuries, but had started at a new school. |
| He said: "It was a great privilege to spend some time with Malala and her family at such a pivotal moment in her life. Given how much she has already been through and all that she represents to the world, it took a while to adjust to the fact that she is still a very fragile teenager. | He said: "It was a great privilege to spend some time with Malala and her family at such a pivotal moment in her life. Given how much she has already been through and all that she represents to the world, it took a while to adjust to the fact that she is still a very fragile teenager. |
| "Hopefully the painting reflects the slight paradox of representing someone with enormous power and wisdom yet vulnerability and youth at the same time." | "Hopefully the painting reflects the slight paradox of representing someone with enormous power and wisdom yet vulnerability and youth at the same time." |
| Malala said she was touched that Yeo asked to paint her and "honoured" that her picture will hang in the National Portrait Gallery. | |
| Yeo has now donated the portrait to the Malala Fund. "It is wonderful to know that many children will ultimately be able to benefit from the money raised by its sale," she said. | Yeo has now donated the portrait to the Malala Fund. "It is wonderful to know that many children will ultimately be able to benefit from the money raised by its sale," she said. |
| The Yeo show will include drawings he made of party leaders in the 2001 election campaign as well as portraits of a diverse range of sitters including Rupert Murdoch, Grayson Perry and Sienna Miller. | The Yeo show will include drawings he made of party leaders in the 2001 election campaign as well as portraits of a diverse range of sitters including Rupert Murdoch, Grayson Perry and Sienna Miller. |
| • Jonathan Yeo Portraits is at the National Portrait Gallery 11 September 2013 to 5 January 2014 | |
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