Brand New!! Ing Discerning Midpoint Exhibition 2017 - Accolade Winners As Well As Review
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The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is a demo of vi curated exhibitions of minor plant independently selected yesteryear vi prominent figures from the fine art world: 2 artists, 2 collectors in addition to 2 critics.
This is a review of the 2017 Exhibition which opened in conclusion calendar week in addition to continues until Dominicus 26 Nov (10am in addition to 5pm daily) at the Mall Galleries inwards London. It's taken a petty longer than I had planned - I e'er forget how long this especial demo takes to review properly - because at that topographic point are lots of prizes in addition to vi completely dissimilar exhibitions!
If you're unable to instruct to come across the show, y'all can
This twelvemonth at that topographic point are 465 plant yesteryear 237 artists on show
This twelvemonth at that topographic point has been some rattling sloppy labelling of artwork inwards the exhibition in addition to on the website. It's such a privilege to instruct selected in addition to and so such a disappointment when winning a prize if the right prize is non identified either inwards the gallery and/or on the website. The numbers are at that topographic point for a argue - to instruct it right.
This is the listing of prizewinners. Those that receive got numbers alongside an asterisk side yesteryear side to them were selected from the opened upwardly submission.
11 of the sixteen prizes went to artists selected from the opened upwardly entry. This breaks downwardly as:
For those who receive got thought of submitting but non done so before, or perchance been dispirited yesteryear non getting selected, here's a discussion from Jill Desborough, who was i of the successful artists submitting via the opened upwardly entry. This twelvemonth she had 2 plant selected yesteryear 2 dissimilar judges, won i of the overstep Purchase Prizes in addition to also sold the other run that was selected
These are prizes where the prize funds the buy of the work. It's exclusively merely occurred to me that it could brand a lot of feel to toll your run to tally the value of i of the Purchase Prizes! (Duh!)
This twelvemonth this was awarded to a ikon yesteryear Rick Garland, i of the artists selected yesteryear Miranda Richardson.
The Discerning Eye has its ain collection of plant in addition to novel work(s) are added to this collection each twelvemonth yesteryear purchasing a work(s) from the principal exhibition - the Founders' Purchase Prize.
This twelvemonth it was shared yesteryear 2 artists: Jill Desborough in addition to Patrick Shart - both of whom were selected via the opened upwardly entry. I confess I never saw the label side yesteryear side to Patrick's print Mr Hulot 2/82* which is why at that topographic point is exclusively i prototype below
I am NOT overly impressed alongside how Jill Desborough's slice has been presented
This Purchase Prize was won yesteryear Camilla Dowse (open entry)
Carne Giffiths, an invited artist, won this prize - in addition to has a fascinating creative mortal statement and is extremely active inwards exhibiting. He was opening a solo demo over inwards Dubai in conclusion week!
I so wanted to movement this sculpture of a Secretary Bird (hence the title) yesteryear Victoria Atkinson (open entry) around when trying to photograph it. Again, almost impossible to come across against the background..... She looks so much nicer on Victoria's website!
This prize is sponsored yesteryear the organisers of the exhibition. Unfortunately this run is NOT the run that's identified every bit the winner on the website link inwards the Prizes Table - where they receive got chosen to highlight 3/24. (How hard is it to brand certain that a link inwards the prizes tabular array goes to the right work?)
Kaori Homma seems to purpose a technique I've never heard of earlier - burn etching. I looked it upwardly in addition to I'm even so none the wiser.... Kaori is an Associate Lecturer, University of Arts London
The Wright Purchase Prize £500
Diana Evers's opened upwardly entry won this prize. This was a fascinating run in addition to it was hard to run out how it was made. It turned out it's a digital impress on what looked similar an aluminium board. I think there's been a fair fleck of manipulation inwards Photoshop or similar because every bit presently every bit I realised it was a impress I began to recognise some of the techniques.
I was left wondering whether anybody ever reads the labels. This is rattling clearly NOT a foursquare impress (i.e. non 20" yesteryear 20")
I'm bemused every bit to which Jane Morgan won this prize. I can't observe whatsoever evidence of a Jane Morgan working inwards bronze.
This collage slice yesteryear U M C Packer won this prize. No website inwards evidence - I was left wondering whether this mention was a pseudonym.
You'll banking concern complaint that winning a regional prize oft results inwards a sale every bit good - if the buy toll is a reasonable total for a minor work!
Such a compassion this ikon wasn't labelled every bit a prizewinner!
Always dainty when y'all win a prize AND your ikon sells! Sarah Jane Bellwood is i of a niche grouping of artists who both pigment in addition to ain their ain gallery.
I come across Nathan Ford's paintings regularly inwards fine art competitions in addition to opened upwardly exhibitions - including the BP Portrait Award.
The exhibition somehow looked dissimilar to me this year. I had the impression that it was to a greater extent than figurative alongside fewer abstracted works.
I couldn't run out whether it was the modify inwards the curators or the a modify inwards the plant submitted via the opened upwardly entry. It did occur to me that perchance this analysis powerfulness receive got been influential Discerning Eye (1990-2016) - which artists receive got shown the most?
I also noticed that the pricing varied betwixt the exhibition in addition to websites in addition to gallery sites for the same or rattling similar/sized work. Artists demand to recall that we're all capable of comparison artwork online.....
Anne MaGill's exhibition felt quite restrained. Her palette was rattling muted apart from a minor patch of rattling colourful paintings. Interesting for an creative mortal whose paintings e'er seem to include an anonymous figure, most of her choices did non include figures.
This included some rattling colourful run - at that topographic point were some rattling vibrant plant every bit good every bit some quieter corners
To me it felt rattling crowded. I think he genuinely needed the whole of the Threadneedle Space - but I suspect he got walloped yesteryear the demand for somewhere to position coats on lawsuit evenings.....
I was rather distracted yesteryear the fact Ms Bertrams had selected a non rattling expert "trying to hold out similar Antony Green" creative mortal in addition to a rather improve "trying to hold out similar Peter Doig artist". I'm non a fan of artists who endeavour to hold out similar other to a greater extent than pop artists in addition to seeing them tends to brand me switch off. This in all probability accounts for the fact I can't recall a lot nigh this exhibition.
Other than a beautiful lyrical fleck of hanging inwards the middle....
....and I quite liked the books - because I'm a fleck of a mass fiend! The ones on the left are yesteryear Ian Robinson. Ian worked inwards the Oil & Gas Industry until moving to London inwards 2007 when he started at Wimbledon College of Art to written report painting. He graduated inwards 2011 alongside 1st Class Honours.
I liked Miranda Richardson's exhibition the best. It was the smallest in addition to felt to a greater extent than coherent than some of the others.
She also had an exhibit of run yesteryear Rick Garland who won the overstep prize - addition an awful lot of sold work.
I reckon Miranda aced it - despite (or perchance because) she had the smallest issue of plant inwards her exhibition. I had a rigid feel of a discriminating every bit good every bit a discerning eye!
I loved the landscape paintings yesteryear David Scott Moore which receive got been selling rattling fast in addition to I tin good sympathise why!
Nicola Coleby reminded me slightly of somebody inwards sweetie store - who keeps wanting to receive got more......
This was yesteryear far the largest exhibition- it's to a greater extent than than twice the size of Miranda Richardson's in addition to it did experience a petty fleck crowded - every bit if the concluding edit was something that never quite happened.
It used upwardly the whole of the terminate of the Main Gallery in addition to was coming quite a long way upwardly the gallery every bit well. It made me wonder if this exhibition needs a "selected but non hung" or clearer guidance to the curators every bit to what's an ideal arrive at inwards price of numbers eg to a greater extent than than x in addition to no to a greater extent than than y.
That said it's evident that a issue of the plant were "late entries" yesteryear invited artists since the plant exercise NOT appear inwards the catalogue in addition to the plant are labelled properly on the wall ONLY.
Which makes me think this exhibition must genuinely hold out a LOT MORE than 105 artworks every bit it had a lot of "labelled on the wall only" pieces.
Definitely an exhibition inwards demand of a curatorial edit!
The other matter that was strange was that a old ING Purchase Prize winner (Susan Angharad Williams 2007) had a run selected for this exhibition - in addition to yet it was hanging rattling depression on the wall....
Maybe it's because Simon Tait is a critic that he's chosen to include rather a lot of invited artists - in addition to this exhibition felt some way adrift of the ratio of "invited artists" to "selected via opened upwardly entry" artists.
Isn't it strange that it's the 2 fine art critics who receive got deviated most from the 'norm' inwards price of what makes for a successful ING exhibition?
That said I did similar a lot of the run yesteryear the people he'd invited to exhibit.
The positioning of 3 of his 3D plant was - inwards fine art critic technical price - "naff". They were pushed together inwards a corner - almost every bit if they were queued at that topographic point patch waiting for their 2d inwards the Sun - in addition to somebody forgot they needed proper sized plinths inwards the right place!
If there's i matter that didn't run inwards this exhibition - it was the placement in addition to spacing of the 3D works.
The Discerning Eye website maintains an archive of:
The next are all posts on Making H5N1 Mark over the in conclusion 10 years.
2017
2016
2013
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| View of i of the vi private exhibitions at the Mall Galleries |
If you're unable to instruct to come across the show, y'all can
- view the online artwork catalogue and
- also read my yesteryear reviews in addition to thought the sort of artwork which has been selected inwards previous years - alongside the dissimilar sets of curators they receive got each twelvemonth - come across the archive of my posts dating dorsum to 2008 at the terminate of this post.
Some exhibition statistics provided yesteryear the organisers
This twelvemonth at that topographic point are 465 plant yesteryear 237 artists on show
- 75% of the artists in addition to 55% of the plant receive got come upwardly from the opened upwardly submission. Typically if y'all come across groups of run yesteryear the same creative mortal inwards this exhibition it's a rattling expert indication they receive got been "invited" to exhibit every bit opposed to "selected" from the opened upwardly entry.
- In price of types of artwork selected for the exhibition:
- Painting in addition to drawing brand upwardly over 60% of the works,
- mixed media in addition to sculpture nigh 15%, and
- printmaking nigh 8%.
2017 Award Winners
This twelvemonth at that topographic point has been some rattling sloppy labelling of artwork inwards the exhibition in addition to on the website. It's such a privilege to instruct selected in addition to and so such a disappointment when winning a prize if the right prize is non identified either inwards the gallery and/or on the website. The numbers are at that topographic point for a argue - to instruct it right.
This is the listing of prizewinners. Those that receive got numbers alongside an asterisk side yesteryear side to them were selected from the opened upwardly submission.
11 of the sixteen prizes went to artists selected from the opened upwardly entry. This breaks downwardly as:
- 6 of the 8 buy prizes (75%) went to opened upwardly entrants
- 2 of the 2 other sponsor prizes (100%) went to artists selected from the opened upwardly entry
- 4 of the vii regional prizes (57%) went to opened upwardly entrants
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| Asterion by Jill Desborough £1,200 SOLD |
First, many thank y'all to the Discerning Eye for some other lovely demo in addition to to Elmo Hood in addition to Simon Tait for picking the pieces. There was such a expert vibe at that topographic point on PV night! Getting the prize was wonderfully encouraging. You receive got to harden yourself to a fair issue of (kindly worded) rejections from opened upwardly shows every twelvemonth so it agency an awful lot to instruct accepted in addition to and so the prize was an extra affirmation to maintain on submitting!
The Purchase Prizes
These are prizes where the prize funds the buy of the work. It's exclusively merely occurred to me that it could brand a lot of feel to toll your run to tally the value of i of the Purchase Prizes! (Duh!)
The ING Purchase Prize £5,000
This twelvemonth this was awarded to a ikon yesteryear Rick Garland, i of the artists selected yesteryear Miranda Richardson.
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| ING Purchase Prize £5000 Rick Garland Urban 1 6/8 Acrylic on canvas, 20x20 inches, (Invited yesteryear Miranda Richardson) |
The DE Founder's Purchase Prize (in honour of Michael Reynolds) £2500
The Discerning Eye has its ain collection of plant in addition to novel work(s) are added to this collection each twelvemonth yesteryear purchasing a work(s) from the principal exhibition - the Founders' Purchase Prize.
This twelvemonth it was shared yesteryear 2 artists: Jill Desborough in addition to Patrick Shart - both of whom were selected via the opened upwardly entry. I confess I never saw the label side yesteryear side to Patrick's print Mr Hulot 2/82* which is why at that topographic point is exclusively i prototype below
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| DE Founder's Prize Jill Desborough Danse Macabre 3/12* 17 x nineteen x 12 inches, Mixed media £1950 |
- Like all 3D pieces at that topographic point are problems alongside seeing them if the background is busy - in addition to this i has a VERY busy background. (I genuinely struggled to instruct a decent pic in addition to the i to a higher identify could receive got been so much improve alongside the right background). H5N1 much plainer background (or a higher plinth?) is needed to hold out able to appreciate the degree in addition to character of especial inwards the figures.
- The fact that the website prize listing links to the prototype of the incorrect slice is also rattling unfortunate.
- This is compounded yesteryear the fact that the photograph of the right slice on the ING DE website is far also black in addition to absolutely dreadful!
The DE Chairman's Purchase Prize
This Purchase Prize was won yesteryear Camilla Dowse (open entry)
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| DE Chairman's Purchase Prize £1000 Camilla Dowse Sussex Place, W2 1/30* 12x12 inches, Acrylic on gesso £450 SOLD |
The Meynell Fenton Prize £1000
Carne Giffiths, an invited artist, won this prize - in addition to has a fascinating creative mortal statement and is extremely active inwards exhibiting. He was opening a solo demo over inwards Dubai in conclusion week!
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| The Meynell Fenton Prize £1000 Noemi 3/21 by Carne Griffiths 9x19 inches, Ink, tea in addition to graphite on Bockingford watercolour paper £1,200 sold |
The Humphreys Purchase Prize £750
I so wanted to movement this sculpture of a Secretary Bird (hence the title) yesteryear Victoria Atkinson (open entry) around when trying to photograph it. Again, almost impossible to come across against the background..... She looks so much nicer on Victoria's website!
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| The Humphreys Purchase Prize £750 Miss Jones 1/1* yesteryear Victoria Atkinson 9x4 inches, Bronze £680 SOLD |
Parker Harris Print Purchase Prize £500
This prize is sponsored yesteryear the organisers of the exhibition. Unfortunately this run is NOT the run that's identified every bit the winner on the website link inwards the Prizes Table - where they receive got chosen to highlight 3/24. (How hard is it to brand certain that a link inwards the prizes tabular array goes to the right work?)
Kaori Homma seems to purpose a technique I've never heard of earlier - burn etching. I looked it upwardly in addition to I'm even so none the wiser.... Kaori is an Associate Lecturer, University of Arts London
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| Parker Harris Print Purchase Prize £500 Under the unusual heaven IV 3/25* yesteryear Kaori Homma 17x14 inches, Fire, acid in addition to H2O on paper £475 |
The Wright Purchase Prize £500
Diana Evers's opened upwardly entry won this prize. This was a fascinating run in addition to it was hard to run out how it was made. It turned out it's a digital impress on what looked similar an aluminium board. I think there's been a fair fleck of manipulation inwards Photoshop or similar because every bit presently every bit I realised it was a impress I began to recognise some of the techniques.
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| The Wright Purchase Prize £500 Tales inwards Freshwater 2/35* by Diana Evers Digital C.type print, 20x20 inches £495 |
The DE Sculpture & 3D Work Prize £250
I'm bemused every bit to which Jane Morgan won this prize. I can't observe whatsoever evidence of a Jane Morgan working inwards bronze.
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| Discerning Eye Sculpture in addition to 3D Work Prize And in addition to so at that topographic point was one 4/43* yesteryear Jane Morgan 6x4x4 inches, Bronze (Selenium & Copper), oils, acrylic lacquer.£12,000 |
St Cuthbert's Mill Award - newspaper to the value of £250
This collage slice yesteryear U M C Packer won this prize. No website inwards evidence - I was left wondering whether this mention was a pseudonym.
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| St Cuthberts Mill Award² £250 The Sea, The Sea No 15/44* by U M C Packer 15x12 inches, acrylic, collage on paper, £450 |
The Regional Prizes
You'll banking concern complaint that winning a regional prize oft results inwards a sale every bit good - if the buy toll is a reasonable total for a minor work!
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| East Anglia Regional Prize £250 'In The Starting Gate' (Alexandra Park) 2/83* yesteryear Michael Smee 16x14 inches, Acrylic £670 (SOLD) |
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| London & South East Regional Prize £250 Untitled figure (Taya sketch) 5/21* by Andrew Holmes 12x16 inches, Oil on paper £1250 SOLD |
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| Midlands Regional Prize £250 Winter Coastline 6/11 yesteryear Deborah Grice 19x13 inches, Oil on canvas, £750 SOLD |
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| North of England Regional Prize £250 Sarah Jane Bellwood Endymion 1/4* 10x8 inches, Acrylic on wooden panel £500 SOLD |
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| Scotland Regional Prize £250 Allan MacDonald Fragments, Winter, NW 4/40* 10x8 inches, Oil £850 |
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| Wales Regional Prize £250 Nathan Ford Anna 11.14 2/44 15x12 inches, Oil in addition to pencil £1800 |
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| West Country Regional Prize £250 Paul McGowan The side effects of skipping 3/41 Pen, pencil, acrylic, ink on vintage Edwardian paper, 16x18 inches £3200 |
The Curator's Exhibitions
The exhibition somehow looked dissimilar to me this year. I had the impression that it was to a greater extent than figurative alongside fewer abstracted works.
I couldn't run out whether it was the modify inwards the curators or the a modify inwards the plant submitted via the opened upwardly entry. It did occur to me that perchance this analysis powerfulness receive got been influential Discerning Eye (1990-2016) - which artists receive got shown the most?
I also noticed that the pricing varied betwixt the exhibition in addition to websites in addition to gallery sites for the same or rattling similar/sized work. Artists demand to recall that we're all capable of comparison artwork online.....
Artist - Anne Magill (70 artworks)
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| A department of Anne Magill's display |
Artist - Elmo Hood (76 artworks)
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| A rattling busy looking display yesteryear Elmo Hood |
To me it felt rattling crowded. I think he genuinely needed the whole of the Threadneedle Space - but I suspect he got walloped yesteryear the demand for somewhere to position coats on lawsuit evenings.....
Collector - Ellen Bertrams (70 artworks)
I was rather distracted yesteryear the fact Ms Bertrams had selected a non rattling expert "trying to hold out similar Antony Green" creative mortal in addition to a rather improve "trying to hold out similar Peter Doig artist". I'm non a fan of artists who endeavour to hold out similar other to a greater extent than pop artists in addition to seeing them tends to brand me switch off. This in all probability accounts for the fact I can't recall a lot nigh this exhibition.
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| Ellen Bertram's exhibition |
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| I LOVED the line of piece of job drawings on the left yesteryear Jonathan Polkest |
....and I quite liked the books - because I'm a fleck of a mass fiend! The ones on the left are yesteryear Ian Robinson. Ian worked inwards the Oil & Gas Industry until moving to London inwards 2007 when he started at Wimbledon College of Art to written report painting. He graduated inwards 2011 alongside 1st Class Honours.
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| Books selected yesteryear Ellen Bertram |
Collector - Miranda Richardson (52 artworks)
I liked Miranda Richardson's exhibition the best. It was the smallest in addition to felt to a greater extent than coherent than some of the others.
She also had an exhibit of run yesteryear Rick Garland who won the overstep prize - addition an awful lot of sold work.
I reckon Miranda aced it - despite (or perchance because) she had the smallest issue of plant inwards her exhibition. I had a rigid feel of a discriminating every bit good every bit a discerning eye!
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| Well hung wall of artwork chosen yesteryear Miranda Richardson |
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| Five paintings or urban landscapes yesteryear Rick Garland |
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| This gallery of minor plant selected yesteryear Miranda Richardson includes paintings yesteryear Felicity House in addition to Ilaria Rosselli del Turco |
Critic - Nicola Coleby (105 artworks)
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| Part of the exhibition of a VERY LARGE number of artworks selected yesteryear Nicole Coleby |
This was yesteryear far the largest exhibition- it's to a greater extent than than twice the size of Miranda Richardson's in addition to it did experience a petty fleck crowded - every bit if the concluding edit was something that never quite happened.
It used upwardly the whole of the terminate of the Main Gallery in addition to was coming quite a long way upwardly the gallery every bit well. It made me wonder if this exhibition needs a "selected but non hung" or clearer guidance to the curators every bit to what's an ideal arrive at inwards price of numbers eg to a greater extent than than x in addition to no to a greater extent than than y.
That said it's evident that a issue of the plant were "late entries" yesteryear invited artists since the plant exercise NOT appear inwards the catalogue in addition to the plant are labelled properly on the wall ONLY.
Which makes me think this exhibition must genuinely hold out a LOT MORE than 105 artworks every bit it had a lot of "labelled on the wall only" pieces.
Definitely an exhibition inwards demand of a curatorial edit!
The other matter that was strange was that a old ING Purchase Prize winner (Susan Angharad Williams 2007) had a run selected for this exhibition - in addition to yet it was hanging rattling depression on the wall....
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| Flower Heads, Fabric, Stones in addition to a Fragment from Bosch 1/101 yesteryear Susan Angharad Williams nineteen x 7", stone oil on linen £3,900 |
Critic - Simon Tait
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| View of business office of Simon Tait's exhibition |
Maybe it's because Simon Tait is a critic that he's chosen to include rather a lot of invited artists - in addition to this exhibition felt some way adrift of the ratio of "invited artists" to "selected via opened upwardly entry" artists.
Isn't it strange that it's the 2 fine art critics who receive got deviated most from the 'norm' inwards price of what makes for a successful ING exhibition?
That said I did similar a lot of the run yesteryear the people he'd invited to exhibit.
The artists I receive got asked are all painters, but they include i of the finest painters of miniatures inwards the country, an inventive portraitist, a lino-cutter whose achievements defy analysis, a landscape painter alongside the ability to shock, some other whose grasp of texture is uncanny, a figurative painter who establish a novel path subsequently a life modify in addition to a pop creative mortal who has done the impossible to movement the genre on.I especially liked these 5 linocut prints of trees yesteryear Andrew Carter who plant inwards East Dulwich in addition to at the Artichoke Print Studio Brixton, London. I may merely receive got to instruct in addition to revisit them....
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| Linocut prints yesteryear Andrew Carter £350 each |
If there's i matter that didn't run inwards this exhibition - it was the placement in addition to spacing of the 3D works.
More nigh the ING Discerning Eye
The Discerning Eye website maintains an archive of:
The next are all posts on Making H5N1 Mark over the in conclusion 10 years.
2017
2016
- ING Discerning Eye 2016 - honour winners in addition to review
- ING Discerning Eye 2016 - Call for Entries
- ING Discerning Eye 2015 - Call for Entries
- ING Discerning Eye 2015 - Selected Artists
- Prizewinners - ING Discerning Eye 2015
- Review ING Discerning Eye 2015
2013
- Jeremy Gardiner wins ING Discerning Eye Prize 2013
- ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2013 - a review18 Nov 2013
- ING Discerning Eye 2012 - Selected Artists 01 October 2012
- Owen Bullet wins £5000 ING Discerning Eye Prize 21 Nov 2012
- ING Discerning Eye 2011 - Selected Artists 12 Sep 2011
- ING Discerning Eye - selected artists archive published xi Aug 2011
- ING Discerning Eye 2010 - selected artists 25 Sep 2010
- REVIEW: The ING Discerning Eye exhibition xviii Nov 2010
- Exhibition Review - ING Discerning Eye 2009 sixteen Nov 2009
- Who's been selected for the ING Discerning Eye 2008? 10 Sep 2008
- ING Discerning Eye 2008 - Prizewinners fifteen Nov 2008
- ING Discerning Eye 2008 - a review xiii Nov 2008
- ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries 24 Nov 2007
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