Here is a small selection from works on show in In It to Win It. Select the OPEN links to read more about a work, and select the image to enlarge it.
2012
Edinburgh-born Hoy is one of the greatest of modern Olympians. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics Hoy won gold medals in the individual sprint, the team sprint and the keirin. He was the first British Olympian for 100 years to claim three gold medals in a single Games. McRae’s triptych of portraits embodies Hoy’s triple success. As she wrote after spending time with him, ‘two words revolved in my head: golden and wholesome’.
![Eve Muirhead has won the World Junior Curling Championships four times and was the youngest ever skip [captain] at an Olympic Games in 2010 in Vancouver. She is the current European Champion and won a silver medal as she skipped Team Scotland in the 2011 World Women’s Curling Championships. At the 2012 World Championships she was awarded the Frances Brodie Award for the curler who best exemplified sportsmanship, fair play, honesty, and friendship. Muirhead is photographed here at Blair Castle, near her family home in Blair Atholl. She holds a curling broom together with the tools of her two past championship activities - golf and bagpiping.](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/_source/artworks_ngs/Eve_Muirhead.jpg)
Eve Muirhead has won the World Junior Curling Championships four times and was the youngest ever skip [captain] at an Olympic Games in 2010 in Vancouver. She is the current European Champion and won a silver medal as she skipped Team Scotland in the 2011 World Women’s Curling Championships. At the 2012 World Championships she was awarded the Frances Brodie Award for the curler who best exemplified sportsmanship, fair play, honesty, and friendship. Muirhead is photographed here at Blair Castle, near her family home in Blair Atholl. She holds a curling broom together with the tools of her two past championship activities - golf and bagpiping.
1925
Eric Liddell remains one of the most inspiring of Olympic athletes. He is remembered equally for his fame as a sportsman and his work as a missionary. He won two medals in the Paris Olympic Games of 1924, most famously the gold in the 400 metres and a bronze in the 200 metres. Famously, Liddell chose not to run the 100 metres in Paris on religious grounds, as the heats were on a Sunday. His genuine extraordinary moral courage was evident in his missionary work in China, where he died of a brain tumour in the Weihsien internment camp.
2012
One of the greatest racing drivers of all time, Sir Jackie Stewart was the Formula One World Champion in 1969, 1971 and 1973. His record of twenty-seven Grand Prix wins stood unbeaten until 1987. This portrait deliberately evokes the 1960s and 70s. Platt painted Stewart’s features from life, but the distinctive flowing hair suggests the sitter’s iconic appearance at his racing peak. The background, by Turner, includes Stewart’s three World Championship winning cars. The classic circuits of Monaco, Nürburgring and Monza are symbolised by the palace (top left), the castle and score-tower (right).
7 April 2008 (negative) print 2012
Jamie and Andy Murray started playing tennis at a young age in their home town of Dunblane. They went on to achieve success on the junior singles circuit before graduating to the senior game. Andy is the current British No. 1 and is ranked No. 4 in the world, having been as high as No. 2 in 2009. So far he has won twenty-two career titles and is a regular contender in Grand Slam tournaments. Jamie specialises in doubles (sometimes partnering his brother) and won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2007.
2012
Known affectionately as ‘Monty’, Colin Montgomerie has been consistently ranked among the world’s best golfers for more than two decades. He has won over forty tournament victories. Faulkner shows Montgomerie standing on the Ailsa course at Turnberry. The sun setting in the west behind Ailsa Craig adds to the elegiac mood.
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