Brand New!! Babel Britain Wins £10,000 Threadneedle Visitors Selection Laurels 2018 For Emily Allchurch

Babel U.K. (After Verhaecht) yesteryear Emily Allchurch

As I predicted, when I saw the Selected Artwork for The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2018 Emily Allchurch has won a prize!

This is MY TIP for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 PRIZE - because at that topographic point is an explicit nod to fine art history, it's clever as well as technically much to a greater extent than than proficient, uses contemporary visual fine art media as well as provides an intelligent comment on contemporary society. It's a contemporary figurative artwork amongst a BIG 'C'.
Selected artists for Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018

When the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition opened to Earth at the Mall Galleries, visitors to the 2018 Exhibition were asked to vote for the artwork they liked the best.

After the exhibition unopen as well as all the votes had been counted, it was announced that ‘Babel U.K. (after Verhaecht) 2017’ won the £10,000 prize.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND y'all direct keep a await at the larger ikon on the Threadneedle Prize website where y'all can zoom into the image

I genuinely institute it rattling hard to photograph it inwards the exhibition because it looked its best as well as most natural when y'all stood correct inwards forepart of it.

I was quite perturbed after I saw what happened to it inwards this photo!

Closer inwards was amend but all the same non quite right

I after institute I hadn't had my photographic idiot box camera on the best setting for what is essentially a digital photograph collage equally a transparency on a bespoke LED lightbox.

Nevertheless it is an extremely impressive artwork - as well as hopefully kicks into send on the notion that digital fine art software cannot create skillful art. It surely lends a whole novel pregnant to the phrase "art from photos"!

My feeling is that visitors both appreciated the huge sum of endeavour that had gone into producing this artwork - but also its topicality as well as implied message inside contemporary lodge - specially inwards London postal service Grenfell.

About the Tower of Babel yesteryear Tobias Verhaecht

There are diverse online explanations of the flush behind the Tower of Babel. The ane yesteryear the Oxford Biblical Studies Online is mayhap ane of the best. Essentially it is a flush which explains why God created people speaking unlike languages who did non empathize ane simply about other (aka "the confusion of tongues")

Various artists direct keep painted their ain version of the Tower of Babel over the years.

Tobias Verhaecht (1561-1631) was a Flemish creative someone who painted several versions of the Tower of Babel. Here are simply a dyad of them.

Personally I prefer the version yesteryear Pieter Brueghel inwards Vienna.

The Tower of Babel yesteryear Pieter Brughel
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Austria

ARCHIVE - The First 10 Years of the Threadneedle Prize

Posts on this weblog virtually the showtime decade of the Threadneedle Prize.

2018 Threadneedle Prize

2016 Threadneedle Prize

2014 Threadneedle Prize

2013 Threadneedle Prize

2012 Threadneedle Prize

Call for Entries for £30000 Threadneedle Prize 2012
Threadneedle Prize 2012: Analysis of entries
Threadneedle Prize 2012: names of selected artists
Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Exhibition right away Online
Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Artists
Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012
Threadneedle Prize 2012: The Making a Mark Select Six - An alternative shortlist for the Threadneedle Prize 2012.
Threadneedle Prize 2012 - the Award Winners - Ben Greener wins Threadneedle Prize 2012. Robert Truscott wins People's Choice Award 2012.

2011 Threadneedle Prize

2010 Threadneedle Prize

2009 Threadneedle Prize

Sheila Wallis wins £25,000 Threadneedle Prize 2009

2008 Threadneedle Prize

Nina Murdoch wins the Threadneedle Figurative Prize 2008 - which I picked out equally the winner at the press preview as well as was the rattling showtime someone to shape the "people's vote" for the winner!