Photograph © Nic Barlow
Lucinda Douglas-Menzies b. 1956
Lucinda Douglas-Menzies started her training as assistant to architectural photographer Jeremy Whitaker, and to Sydney Harris, press and public relations photographer. She then worked at Sotheby’s for five years as a catalogue photographer to the Chinese porcelain, silver and jewellery departments. In 1986 Douglas-Menzies opened her own studio, specializing in both fine art photography and portraiture and exhibited her first solo exhibition of portraits Luminaries in 1989. She has since worked on and exhibited themed groups of portraits notably Portraits of Astronomers (2009) and Portraits of South Asian Writers (2015).
The National Portrait Gallery has 76 portraits in their collection. View them here.
Recent commissions are for The Barakat Gallery (paintings, metalwork, weapons), Virginia White (furniture and fabric), Royal Society of Literature (portraits), Cleave and Company (medals and pens), Romilly Saumarez-Smith (jewellery) . She is a contributing photographer for Spitalfields Life.
Solo exhibitions
1989 Luminaries Stephen Bartley Gallery, London
1990 East Anglian Luminaries The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, Essex
2002 Portraits The Golden Heart pub, Spitalfields, London
2004 Portraits The Golden Heart pub, Spitalfields, London
2009 Portraits of Astronomers, The Royal Astronomical Society and touring exhibition. Display and talk at the National Portrait Gallery
2015 Portraits of South Asian Writers, 6 Puma Court, Spitalfields, London - Read an article by Liz Rideal here
2022 Portraits of Hungarian Film Directors, B2 Gallery, Raday utca 47, Budapest 16 May -17 June 2022 Read opening remarks by Dr. Gelencsér Gábor, ‘The Visible Director: on Lucinda Douglas-Menzies here
2024 15 January -16 February ‘Flowers’ exhibition, Fazenda, 9 Harrow Place, London E1 7DB
Group exhibitions
2005 Portraits Cobbold and Judd, Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk
2012 Portraits, Cobbold and Judd, Hintlesham Hall, Suffolk
2013 27 Nov- 6 Dec, Portraits Four Corners, London
2020 18 June - 27 June, GX Gallery, London
2020 WE STAND TOGETHER Women’s photographs of women 1970-2020 Brady Centre, Hanbury St, E1 5HU, 2nd - 28th March
2022 Autumn Exhibition Photographs, Geedon Gallery, Jaggers, Fingeringhoe, Colchester, Essex Co5 7DN October 8th-23rd Read review by Martin Newell, Photo Sensitive
2023 One Day Pop- Up Saturday 21st October, Impossible Frame, Studio 37d Princelet Street. Spitalfields, London E1 5LP
Collections
Science Museum, National Portrait Gallery, V & A, Minories Art Gallery, Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Armagh Observatory, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, National Széchényi Library, Budapest, Bank of America.
Notable sitters
Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Patrick Moore, Amartya Sebor