Credit Suisse
Since 2008, the National Gallery and Credit Suisse have been working together in a unique partnership, which provides a vital funding platform for the Gallery’s exhibitions and educational programmes. Find out more about the ways we work together:
Hiscox Underwriting Ltd
In 2017, Hiscox became the National Gallery's first Contemporary Art Partner, commencing with their support of the Chris Ofili: Weaving Magic exhibition.
Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk
In 2016, Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk generously supported the National Gallery’s Dutch Flowers exhibition. This support helped bring iconic Dutch flower paintings from the early 17th to late 18th century to life for the first time in 20 years.
To complement the exhibition, Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk created a remarkable living floral reproduction of Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder’s A Still Life of Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase.
A short film created by Funnyhowflowersdothat.co.uk shows how 30 florists used over 26,000 stems to create the display, which stood at 8.2 metres high. This video has been watched more than 13,000 times within social channels and the Gallery’s Periscope tour had 632 live viewers and 7,656 followers. In all, the viral capacity of the display on social media exceeded expectations.
The Gallery hosted a floral design workshop that taught about the style and composition of Dutch still-life paintings and participants created their own floral arrangements to take home. Over 170 people entered a competition to win a place at this workshop.
This collaboration was promoted across all social media and the Gallery saw an increase in visitors to the exhibition over the floral display weekend of 5,454 people compared to the previous weekend.
This campaign recently won the 2017 UXB London Award for Best Use of Digital Channels in a Fundraising Campaign at the Emcees Arts & Culture National Fundraising Awards 2017.
Hewlett Packard
The National Gallery’s association with Hewlett Packard began in 1996 with donations of equipment to the Gallery’s scientific department. Since then the partnership has evolved into a multi-faceted relationship, which has included their support of the Gallery’s East Wing project, storage of the digitised collection, and support for an HP Fellow in the Scientific Department
The theme throughout these initiatives has been an issue of interest to both parties: the reproduction of colour. This has created a true partnership, whereby both partners benefit from the association.