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Brand New!! Selected Artists For Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018

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Congratulations to all those artists whose artwork was selected to live shown inwards the Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2018 - alongside prizes worth £35,000. This weblog postal service is nigh the artists whose function has been selected for the exhibition

The focus of the exhibition is best novel plant of figurative together with representational art

The exhibition is at the Mall Galleries inwards primal London. It's opened upward from 31 Jan to 17 Feb 2018, 10am to 5pm (closes 1pm on terminal day) - together with admission is FREE.

The Columbia Threadneedle Prize website has a novel blueprint for the 2018 prize which I volition review on Wednesday.  An conception for 2018 is the publication of a virtual exhibition of the selected artwork where you lot tin browse earlier the exhibition opens.

Some submission together with alternative statistics


  • Over 4,000 people submitted digital applications together with images of their artwork for the Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2018.
  • Nearly 700 were invited to submit their artwork for review inwards mortal past times the Panel of Selectors.
  • Just 104 artworks were selected. 
    • That's c. 1 inwards vii of those who made it through to Stage 2 and 
    • this is some 2.5% of the full entries.  The latter is non different to the success charge per unit of measurement of those submitting to the BP Portrait Award.
The pose out of artists selected is an fifty-fifty lower pose out of 95 artists as 8 artists receive got had to a greater extent than than i function selected.

This year’s Panel of Selectors were:

I think they've done a proficient task of giving us a proficient multifariousness of styles of figurative together with representational fine art - together with a broad multifariousness of plain of report matter. Although I discovery a few sub-themes coming through - I receive got started to wonder if nosotros are going to receive got a corner alongside real large paintings of architectural subjects!  Might live rather nice!

The prizes


The prizes are:
  • First Prize: £20,000 together with a solo exhibition 
  • Visitors Choice Award £10,000
  • Five Shortlisted Artists: £1,000
It doesn't say thence on the website but Lewis told me earlier Christmas that the shortlisted artists won't live announced until later. I forget whether it's when the Exhibition opens or only earlier the Awards Dinner.

Anyway - I'll live doing another weblog postal service when the shortlisted artists names are announced.

It's proficient fun inwards the meantime to encounter if you lot tin spot those probable to live shortlisted!

Selected artists


Below are mini profiles of the artists. Links to the artists' websites are embedded inwards their names.

It's a mammoth attempt together with takes me hours - I do promise you lot discovery it educational. The ground I do this is to encourage others to go inwards fine art competitions inwards furtherance of their fine art together with careers equally an artist. You tin see
  • what kind of fine art pedagogy people receive got pursued and 
  • what kind of artwork they produce

I lecture on creative mortal statements together with CVs together with develop the mini creative mortal profiles below inwards a real curt infinite of fourth dimension from the information provided on websites. Hence they they come upward alongside hints together with tips for some!

I sometimes experience past times the terminate of what follows that I should live giving out an honor for "best website" together with "easiest to encounter who you lot are together with what you lot do" website!

The chief divergence for me this fourth dimension around - apart from the improved websites - is the increase inwards people exhibiting who live inwards Europe. I wonder if this volition proceed postal service Brexit?

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  • Emiko Aida RE - Grew upward inwards Tokyo where she did her rootage degree. MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art. Now an awardwinning printmaker together with painter living inwards London who is a fellow member of Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. 
  • Emily Allchurch -  trained equally a sculptor, First Class (Hons.) bird inwards Fine Art from the Kent Institute of Art & Design – Canterbury inwards 1996, together with an MA from the Royal College of Art inwards 1999. Now uses photography together with digital collage to reconstruct Old Master paintings together with prints to create contemporary narratives.  Her function Babel Great Britain (After Verhaecht) is a Transparency on bespoke LED lightbox. This is MY TIP for H5N1 PRIZE - because at that topographic point is an explicit nod to fine art history, it's clever together with technically much to a greater extent than than proficient, uses contemporary visual fine art media together with provides an intelligent comment on contemporary society. It's a contemporary figurative artwork alongside a BIG 'C'.
Babel Great Britain ( After Verhaecht) past times Emily Allchurch
Transparency on bespoke LED lightbox (edition of 20, 10 available) 128 x 140 cm

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  • Richard Baker - H5N1 real consistent exhibitor who is regularly selected for fine art contest exhibitions e.g. selected for the The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition for the lastly 4 years (2014-2017). 2003 - BA (Hons) Fine Art,Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds. 2016 - MA Creative Practice, Leeds College of Art, Leeds (ongoing). 
  • Sarah Ball- born inwards Yorkshire but lives close Penzance. 1983 - 1986 Newport Art College; 2003 - 2005 MFA, Bath Spa University. Exhibits on a regular ground alongside solos inwards Cornwall together with grouping exhibitions inwards London, Dallas together with Hong Kong. One of half-dozen shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize inwards 2014. Paints people inwards a stylized way - I discovery her function vaguely unsettling.
  • Paul Barrand - studied inwards Liverpool together with and thence Leicester together with lived together with worked inwards the portion e'er since. His artwork has a 'film noir' effect.
  • Deborah Batt (2 works) - Exhibits on a regular basis. Both her paintings - inwards acrylic together with pen on canvass - characteristic flytipping inwards monochrome.
  • Bartholomew Beal - Distinction inwards his Foundation Course together with a 1st course of instruction honours bird from Wimbledon. Interesting hit of exhibitions for his fantasy figurative artwork. In 2014, he was he was the youngest creative mortal to receive got e'er staged a solo exhibition at the gallery at the London Fine Art Society Gallery. 
  • Oliver Bedeman - a figurative painter living together with working inwards London, whose function focuses on imagined together with often dreamlike portraiture. Degree inwards Painting at Brighton University, followed past times studies at the The Royal Drawing School inwards London. He's produced a real curious 'look at me' painting.
  • Melanie Bellis - Born inwards South Yorkshire, London based creative mortal Melanie Bellis draws outdoors at locations inwards the pump of the urban gist together with and thence develops her drawings into atmospheric etchings. She is a fellow member of the Southbank Printmakers gallery.
  • Frances Borden (2 works) - paints portraits together with regularly exhibits an national fine art social club opened upward exhibitions together with fine art competitions. I similar both of her paintings.
  • Graham Bruce-Richards - professional person creative mortal living on the Isel of Mull who's forgotten to add together his bio/CV into his website
  • Caroline Burraway - BA inwards Drawing from Camberwell together with an MA from primal St Martins.  Her function has previously been selected for fine art contest exhibitions. I similar her charcoal drawings but IMO her creative mortal disputation needs a radical redraft earlier I collect it for my examples of "what non to write".

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  • Charlie Calder-Potts - a British creative mortal based inwards Warwickshire who has exhibited inwards a various hit of places. She was Official War Artist alongside the British Army inwards Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan 2013/14. Her function looks at history together with it's repetitive nature; the value of our heritage together with our similarities to previous generations together with to each other.  She has an Arts Council sponsored solo exhibition at the Fosse Gallery inwards February.  I'm real interested to encounter how she plant alongside Pencil, ink, together with gilded leafage on vellum calf skin. Looks interesting.
  • Alex Callaway RBSA - Born inwards Devon, straight off based close the urban gist of Worcester. H5N1 British contemporary realist painter who was originally a freelance illustrator. Number of awards together with distinctions.
Confluence by Alex Callaway
fossil oil on canvass 33 x 33cm £1,995
  • Samantha Cary (2 works) - I'm afraid I discovery her website impossible to facial expression at. More artistic disputation than method of communication.
  • Sheila Chapman - Studied physics at Oxford, together with thence a patent attorney for 10 years earlier completing a BA bird inwards fine fine art at Edinburgh College of Art. Now an emerging contemporary painter based inwards Edinburgh
  • Enrique Collar - born inwards Paraguay, naturalized Dutch citizen. Lives together with plant inwards Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Amanda Cornish - produces fantabulous large drawings of nature inwards charcoal on newspaper together with nails her creative mortal disputation inwards ii lines.
she documents the unnamed together with ignored place, unraveling confused forms to bring out the foreign hidden beauty of the overlooked ordinary.
  • BP Travel Award - Laura Guoke exhibits portraits from a refugee camp
  • Sarah Gwyer - born inwards Gloucestershire; straight off lives together with plant inwards the Cotswolds producing contemporary popular art. Studied Fine Art inwards Cardiff, followed past times a Masters inwards Printmaking at the University of the Arts inwards London. Her "Amy Remixed" - an Amy Winehouse sculpture inwards beads - was a large striking at lastly summer's RA Summer Exhibition.
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  • John Hainsworth - CV express to listing of exhibitions. Exhibited at RA Summer Exhibition inwards 2014, 2016, 2017
  • Emma Haworth wins Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition 2010) together with the National Open Art Competition. Her paintings are narratives unremarkably gear upward inwards a commons or greenish expanse (havens) inside a urban gist - together with appear oft inwards fine art contest exhibitions. She has a solo demonstrate 'My brilliant novel boots' at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery inwards London (1 -24 Feb 2018).
To amount upward my do inwards five words .....detailed, labour-intensive ( lots of hours of function receive got gone into each piece), thoughtful, aesthetic. Bridgeman Interview alongside Emma Haworth
Midnight snow past times Emma Haworth
fossil oil on linen, 160cm x 150cm $1,500
  • Simon Head - Lives together with plant inwards London. He's straight off an creative mortal after a multifariousness of other occupations.
  • Elspeth Henderson - Foundation inwards Art together with Design (Wimbledon); MA inwards Medieval History (King's) followed past times The Drawing Year at the Prince's straight off the Royal Drawing School. She's produced an intriguing go past times downward epitome entitled The potable earlier the flight!
  • Morna Hinton - BA inwards History of Art, a PGCE inwards Art together with an MA inwards Museum Studies undertaken piece working at the V&A. Currently doing a Masters inwards Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Arts, business office of the University of the Arts London. ​ Her epitome is called Shed together with is i of a serial of paintings of wintertime next the precipitous decease of her hubby during a real mutual depression temperature wintertime 4 years ago.
  • Noel Hoare - When I saw his epitome (without championship or details) I wondered whether Rose Wylie had entered!
  • Marguerite Horner - born together with brought upward inwards Lincoln. Currently based inwards London. M.A. inwards Fine Art. Employed equally a scenic creative mortal at the BBC where she trained together with worked for iii years, leaving to function equally a freelance artist. Has exhibited widely inwards various opened upward exhibitions past times national fine art societies together with fine art competitions
  • HuntMcGarry (2 works) - Very noisy website. I didn't halt long...  I'm left wondering how noisy the gallery is going to be 
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  • Chris Jones - ii artists alongside the same name, neither of whom seem to function inwards the same way equally the artwork inwards the exhibition!
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I especially liked Coastal Path past times Dominic Keshavarz. The science together with technique employed inwards creating the tonal together with spatial depth inwards what is a real complex drawing is real impressive. To do this using pen together with ink is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than ground to halt together with facial expression together with linger together with facial expression again. I've seen a lot of real fine pen together with ink drawings together with this creative mortal is upward at that topographic point alongside some of the best when it comes to an interpretation of realism.
  • Henry Kondracki  - Scottish creative mortal based inwards Edinburgh. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1986). Received the Cheltenham Drawing Prize (1999), the Hunting Art Prize (2004) together with has twice been the recipient of the Slade Fine Art Prize. Work has been widely exhibited inwards the UK together with abroad. No website - link is to gallery.
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  • Mario Lafirenze - Lots of illustration sites for ebooks nigh truthful cat fine art but no website for painting.
  • Carl Laubin (2 works) - a British/American artist, born inwards New York. Studied architecture at Cornell University; moved to London inwards 1973 together with becoming a British citizen inwards 2000. Best known for architectural capricci - paintings of an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological ruins together with other architectural elements inwards fictional together with often fantastical combinations. He's got i of his paintings priced at £100,00 - of which to a greater extent than comment tomorrow.
  • Cathy Lewis - Studied at Glasgow School of Art , Falmouth Art School together with University of the West of England. Works from a studio on Spike Island. Says real piddling nigh her function on her website which is a pity.
  • Juliette Losq - studied History of Art at the University of Cambridge. MA inwards 18C British & French Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art inwards 2001. Then a interruption together with thence iii years at Wimbledon College of Art studying epitome followed past times PG Dip inwards Fine Art from the Royal Academy schools, inwards London graduating in 2010.  Won the Jerwood Drawing Prize inwards 2005. Shortlisted for the John Moores Prize 2014, winning the Visitors Choice Award. Lives together with plant inwards London. Works inwards ink together with watercolour together with uses a resist method. Her plant are impressive - together with I was left wondering why she doesn't go inwards the Dominicus Times Watercolour Competition
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  • Jemisha Maadhavji  
  • Donald Macdonald - trained at Aberdeen. After living together with epitome inwards Kingdom of Denmark together with Glasgow he has returned to the Isle of Lewis to live together with paint.
  • Susie MacMurray - British creative mortal whose function includes drawing, sculpture together with architectural installations. She retrained equally an creative mortal after existence a classical musician, graduating alongside an MA inwards Fine Art inwards 2001. Lives inwards Manchester. Exhibits internationally, showing regularly inwards the USA together with Europe equally good equally the UK. I've never come upward across anybody who makes fine art out of reclaimed barbed wire before.
  • Graham Martin - a Scottish creative mortal who studied at Edinburgh, based inwards London. He is interested inwards architecture together with the built environment, inwards exceptional the quickly changing landscape of East London.
  • Sarah McCarthy (2 works)
  • Bryden McD - no website. Is this a pseudonym? Apparently "Bricks, plywood, inks, acrylic together with textured paint, neon lights, flame retardant putty, Ayrshire grass, accompanying good track" equate to a value of £10,000. I do thence promise the artworks  alongside good tracks are taking turns inwards a gallery all to themselves together with non inflicting good on the placidity enjoyment of other works! Audio tracks alongside artwork is rather similar music on fine art websites - a ground to larn out real fast for many people.
  • Shona McGovern - amount full of biography is 'Born inwards Edinburgh. Lives together with plant inwards London together with Kent.' Graduated from Canterbury Christchurch University inwards 2014. Makes some interesting but slightly weird ceramic pieces
  • Kate Montgomery  - studied The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, St John's College, Oxford together with and thence MA at Royal College of Art inwards London. Regular exhibitor inwards the past times at ING Discerning Eye together with the RA Summer Exhibition - together with previously selected for Threadeedle inwards 2009. Very interesting artworks alongside a real distinctive manner - focused on women with Real fourth dimension together with infinite are avoided, permitting personal histories or fiction to live read. 
  • Shelley Morrow - Based inwards Brighton - currently teaching together with running life drawing sessions at Draw inwards Brighton. Graduated alongside a BA inwards Fine Art at Camberwell School of Art i(1990). Currently taking my MA inwards Fine Art at Brighton University. Very interesting slice relating to the iniquities of the Asian garment industry
#whomademyclothes is a patchwork blanket alongside 1,138 used clothes labels sewn on. The pose out of labels is representative of the pose out of people who died inwards the Rana Plaza complex, People's Republic of Bangladesh inwards 2013.
  • Hannah Murray - an honor winning contemporary figurative painter together with fine art teacher, living together with working inwards London. Graduated from Leeds School of Art inwards 2015. Was a Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Contestant (2017). Selected for 2016 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
  • Ruth Murray  - Studied at Loughborough together with Royal College of Art (MA epitome 2008). Very distinctive manner alongside keen impact  which I know I've seen earlier (Royal Society of Portrait Painters and/or BP Portrait Award?) - together with I'm only trying to call upward where. I'm expecting her large epitome of a unproblematic together with yet complex plain of report to impress together with receive got 'presence' inwards the gallery. There's a feel of Wyeth nigh it.
Duff by Ruth Murray
Oil, 210 x  50cm

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  • Naghmeh Navabi - Born inwards Iran. Studied graphic design, art, architecture together with interior blueprint inwards Tehran. Moved to London to report photography. Currently studying BA Photography, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London 2015-2018. The faces of the women inwards a pose out of plant - including the i inwards the exhibition - are obliterated.
  • Kate Newington - BA at Camberwell together with MA at Central St Martins. Latterly has been a regular exhibitor inwards some national fine art social club exhibitions - together with the RA Summer Show together with the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize inwards 2016. Uses collage a lot inwards her work
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  • Shanti Panchal Hon RBA - Moved from Bharat to function inwards Great Britain inwards 1978. Has a unique together with real pleasing approach to watercolour epitome which nobody else has yet managed to copy!  His color palette relates to his early on years living inwards Gujerat. I'm real certain his real respectful painting Grenfell Pyre together with the Rescued Family - alongside its emphasis on the importance of too remembering the survivors - volition larn a LOT of visitor votes given the subject. If he won the Visitors Choice honor of £10,000 - determined past times the votes of visitors to the exhibition - I wouldn't live inwards the to the lowest degree surprised.
I was shocked to encounter the sight of Grenfell Tower the side past times side day, it was nonetheless burning. I met a menage unit of measurement who were thence lucky to live live equally they were rescued past times the firefighter.
Grenfell Pyre together with the Rescued Family past times Shanti Panchal
Watercolour, 102 x 82cm
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  • Tomáš Tichý - H5N1 Czech painter who studied at The Academy of Fine Arts inwards Prague, the  Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Previously selected for the Threadneedle Exhibition inwards 2014 together with 2016. 
He has been able to connect well-mastered together with thoroughly studied epitome techniques alongside the mightiness together with volition to maintain searching for together with discovering novel themes for his paintings. This makes his function business office of the full general global tendency striving to revitalise more-or-less “classical” epitome past times addressing electrical flow topics.
  • Susanne du Toit - Won the BP Portrait Award inwards 2013. Selected for the Threadneedle Prize exhibition inwards 2016. Born inwards Pretoria, South Africa Studies included: BAFA at the University of Pretoria South Africa. MFA at Massachusetts College of Art Boston USA.
  • Polly Townsend - Polly paints mountains together with large landscapes. BA University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (First Class Honours); MFA Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK; she's won a pose out of ravel scholarships together with has done artist residencies together with projects inwards mountains all over the world (do receive got a look)- together with painted mountains inwards Kyrgyzstan, Kasmir, Alaska, Norway, mainland People's Republic of China etc. Her function is a epitome of trees after fire.
A woman mortal landscape painter acts similar a beacon of promise for life’s rich plethora of weirdos. I receive got endured harassment (often sexual) numerous times. 
  • Shelly Tregoning - born inwards Mauritius. Spent her early on life inwards the West Indies. Educated inwards England. Now lives together with plant inwards Cornwall. BA in Fine Art at University College, Falmouth inwards 2011. Selected for the Discerning Eye, the National Open Art Competition, RWA exhibitions together with the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition.
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  • Lois Wallace - Lois Wallace is a contemporary British Artist. Working alongside Paint on copper together with paper, alongside galleries inwards London together with Berlin. Trained at the Slade School of Art. Exhibited widely inwards the UK together with abroad. Senior Lecturer inwards Fine Art at Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University until 2017.
  • Gavin Watson - a British painter who plant inwards together with from the cultural, political together with geographic landscape of rural Northumberland. Selected iv times for BP Portrait Award inwards the 90s. Some real punny titles of paintings on his website - some of which I had to think about!  You tin see to a greater extent than of his real squeamish doggy paintings here.
  • David Vincent Wheeler - an creative mortal alongside northern roots together with fine art pedagogy at various places inwards the North East. Urban landscapes inwards Hyperealism. Has been a regular exhibitor at Lynn Painter-Stainer. His paintings deserve a much ameliorate website.
  • Graeme Wilcox - Graduated BA(Hons) Fine Art inwards Printmaking, Glasgow schoolhouse of Art (1993).  Excellent draughtsmanship together with painter. Paints portraits together with figures - somewhat isolated from their surroundings. Regular exhibitor at opened upward exhibitions past times major fine art societies inwards Scotland. Award winner at exhibitions inwards London together with Scotland.  His epitome Small Protest is a existence used equally a characteristic exhibit for marketing the exhibition. I'm guessing that may good agency he's shortlisted.
Recent paintings pull commuters together with people travelling through half-remembered spaces, situations together with scenes based upon memories both existent together with imagined.
  • Susan Angharad Williams exhibits at ING after she won the iNG Discerning Eye inwards 2007.  I identified a gallery for her that may good live interested inwards her function - together with they were - together with she's still alongside the gallery a decade later! Always paints primarily from life.
  • Agata Wojcieszkiewicz -  Grew upward inwards Gdansk inwards Poland. MA inwards Fine Art Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts inwards Gdanks (2011). Now a contemporary artist, living together with working on the due south coast of England.
Time, house together with identity are of import to me. I am an immigrant stuck inwards limbo betwixt the past times together with introduce worlds, unable to experience at abode inwards my adopted province yet no longer having a feel of belonging inwards my abode country, all at i time alienated together with anonymous wherever I may be.

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