Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Shami Chakrabarti NPG 6923

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Gillian Wearing

Taken with a large-format camera, the sitter is shown holding a wax mask of herself which hangs from a ribbon. The notion of the 'mask' has previously occupied Wearing but, in this case, the idea was prompted by the sitter, who commented in their first meeting that her public persona is mask-like, often interpreted as 'grim', 'worthy' and 'strident'.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.