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£30,000 Bp Portrait Accolade 2016 - How To Come Inwards Too How To Overstep Selected

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The Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2016 was published yesterday on the National Portait Gallery website - thus it's fourth dimension to write my Annual Guide to how to move inward together with how to ameliorate your chances of existence selected! Many of those who've been selected inward the past times have got told me they've flora it really helpful.

The closing appointment for digital entries from artists all over the ground is 2d Feb 2016.

BP Portrait 2015 - afterwards the Awards Ceremony
Second Prizewinner Michael Gaskell (for the quaternary time!) (link is to a video interview with him)
with Peter Monkman (2009 Winner) who was ane of the Judges inward 2015
This twelvemonth the paradigm which volition characteristic on the contest website's dwelling solid page is that of instant prizewinner Michael Gaskell who has directly won instant prize a total of 4 times!

What this post covers


This post covers:
  • 12 reasons why this is a contest worth entering - which includes details of the significan prize money
  • How to move inward for those who don't similar the pocket-size print. I won't embrace every lastly particular - thus you lot soundless have got to read ALL the atmospheric condition but sometimes it helps to have got an introduction first! :)
  • The Judges - summation a video of a justice explaining how the procedure works
  • How to larn selected - my suggestions for how to ameliorate your chances of selection. Plus a video of a past times winner explaining the procedure together with how it worked for her.
  • The Exhibition
  • links to past times posts nearly previous BP Portrait Award winners together with exhibition reviews on this weblog going dorsum to 2007

What's dissimilar inward 2016

The major alter this twelvemonth is that the atmospheric condition together with the rules directly have got a white background together with are a lot easier to read. 

For those who didn't move inward lastly twelvemonth the major alter inward 2015 was that postal entries are no longer accepted together with the entry is procedure is digital.

If whatever of you lot spot anything else that has changed delight larn out a comment together with I'll practise an update.

BP Portrait 2015: Judges's Choice for First Prize on the left
'Annabelle together with Guy' past times Matan Ben Cnaan,  
Winner of the BP Portrait Award 2015 Visitors' Choice on the right
'Juanito' past times José Luis Corella
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell

12 corking reasons to move inward the BP Portrait Award 2016

This is a "game changer" of a prize. It typically has a really positive comport on on the careers of artists who win the top prize - for all the reasons listed below

  1. This is a really prestigious portrait competition. If you're a serious portrait creative soul you lot demand to think seriously nearly entering one of the most prestigious fine art prizes inward the world. This contest has been characterised equally "the Oscars of Portraiture".
  2. Enhance your CV with a BP Portrait selection - this is the contest that artists boast nearly existence selected for! Just existence selected for the BP enhances an artists career. 
  3. The status of 'selected artist' is underpinned past times trigger-happy competition. The contest attracts a lot of entries. In 2015 in that location was a record-breaking 2,748 entries. From these some c.300 were long-listed together with only 2% of the entry - 55 portrait paintings - were selected for exhibition.
  4. Entrance to the BP Portrait Awards Ceremony 2015
    The prizes are significant.     Get selected together with you lot have got a goodness direct a chance of winning a major prize. Nearly 10% of those portraits are selected for the exhibition stand upward a direct a chance of winning ane of the v major prizes. They're worth betwixt £6,000 together with £35,000.  This twelvemonth thye are:
    • First Prize: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cash accolade of £30,000, plus, at the judges’ discretion, a committee worth £5,000, to live agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery together with the artist.
    • Second Prize: £10,000
    • Third Prize: £8,000
    • BP Young Artist Award: £7,000 (eligible artists are aged betwixt xviii together with 30) 
    • BP Travel Award 2016: £6,000
  5. Become an international artist! This is a major international fine art contest which welcomes entries from international artists. 
  6. Get your artwork exhibited inward a Major International Art Gallery  The National Portrait Gallery is inward the centre of London - correct adjacent to the National Gallery together with Trafalgar Square. This Prize is ane of the principal reasons why the National Portrait Gallery inward London is inward the top xx fine art galleries together with museums inward the world 
  7. Get your artwork seen past times a huge issue of people.  The 2015 exhibition was seen past times nearly 330,000 people - together with that was before it went on tour to ii other places around the UK.  Something nearer one-half a 1000000 people volition encounter the exhibition past times the halt of the tour.
  8. Be acclaimed past times Blue Planet together with win the People's Choice Award. Even if you lot don't win a prize you lot powerfulness win the prize where Blue Planet larn to instant gauge the judges.  The prize goes to the portrait which receives the most votes from visitors to the exhibition. 
    9. Banners of portraits inward the exhibition
    Outside the entrance to the National Portrait Gallery
    Summer 2014
  9. Be commissioned past times the National Portrait Gallery together with have got your function bring together its permanent collection. You don't have got to win First Prize to bring together the listing of artists who have commissions from the National Portrait Gallery.  In the past times artists whose function has been regularly selected and/or shortlisted have got also been commissioned past times the National Portrait Gallery to hit a portrait for the permanent collection. There are no guarantees - but this is also some other way of enhancing your CV together with interesting galleries together with others who committee portraits
  10. Get major exposure for your artwork via the publicity materials. The artworks chosen for the publicity materials are oft non those shortlisted. Which way you lot may let out your portrait hanging exterior the National Portrait Gallery on a banner - or on all the posters around the Underground - together with all around London. 
  11. A jolly goodness argue to see London. Interestingly the international artists invariably plough upward to the events at the outset of the exibition. I gauge that's because existence selected provides you lot with an fantabulous argue for making the trip to London together with seeing the exhibition - together with doing all the other corking things you lot tin practise inward London.
  12. Network together with brand lots of friends. David Kassan (Third Prizewinner 2014) suggested lastly twelvemonth that the networking together with friendships you lot volition brand with boyfriend artists inward the present are "unbeatable".

How to move inward for those who don't similar the pocket-size print

The website contains:

The Rules

Essentially in that location are NO CHANGES TO THE RULES together with only a pocket-size increase inward the fee for entry.

I recommend that anybody wanting to submit a portrait should read The 2016 Rules 3 times! That's because the worst mistakes you lot tin brand when entering fine art competitions is to 
  • create a function for a competition 
  • and together with thus realise that it isn't eligible 
  • or you lot can't acquaint it inward the correct way past times a deadline.
All due to the fact you lot didn't read the price together with atmospheric condition and/or the rules properly.

Note inward particular that works tin live disqualified - fifty-fifty if selected for exhibition - if they have got non adhered to the rules!
Below is my endeavor at brand the rules accessible. I review together with revise it each year. I've carve upward the rules upward into sections relating to
  • the artist
  • the portrait


RULES: WHO tin enter


  • Artists must live aged xviii years or over equally of 1 Jan 2016 - living anywhere inward the world

RULES: The Portrait


Pay particular attending to these. I've detected much to a greater extent than careful scrutiny together with a tightening of the application of the rules inward recent years. Where rules are directly existence spelt out to a greater extent than clearly ane must assume that they have got been ignored inward the past!!
The National Portrait Gallery reserves the correct to disqualify whatever slice of function if the creative soul has non adhered to the rules, fifty-fifty if the function has been selected for exhibition

Each creative soul is express to ONE ENTRY PER ARTIST.

The function entered
  • must live recent i.e. completed afterwards 1 Jan 2015. You are required to indicate:
    • the appointment of the firstly sitting
    • the appointment the portrait was completed (Bear inward heed people volition tell the organisers if they've seen a portrait exhibited prior to 1 Jan 2015!)
    • the start appointment needs to pre-date the completion date. (latter was novel inward 2012.  I think this is an surface area where entries have got been caught out inward the past)
      • "the stated appointment of firstly sitting should live before the stated appointment of completion"
  • SHOULD live a paradigm based on a sitting or report from life AND the human figure MUST predominate. (There's a to a greater extent than explicit contestation on this inward the FAQs which I think is novel - encounter the quotation below)
    •  You demand to dot on the shape whether or non you lot have got met the sitter.
    • The portrait tin live a self portrait or a grouping portrait
we asking that your paradigm is based on a sitting or report from life. We empathise that you lot may demand to function from photographs for assistance but the primary rootage should live from life.
  • MUST live available for the entire catamenia of the exhibition together with the tour to ii other venues (not yet available - but assume upward until Apr 2017)
  • must NOT have got been previously submitted for consideration. 
  • should NOT live signed on the front. All entries must live anonymous for the purposes of judging. Consequently the judges may spend upward a function if they create upward one's heed that this dominion has been compromised.

Media together with Size:

  • MUST live predominantly painted inward oil, tempera or acrylic (No watercolours, plant on newspaper or pastels volition live considered )
  • MUST live on a stretcher or board, preferably framed together with unglazed. 
  • MUST be 
    • AT LEAST 25 x 20cm (10” x 8”) unframed. Smaller plant volition NOT live considered.
    • NO BIGGER than 244 x 244cm (96" x 96") framed (including the frame). 
    • Multi-part portraits - upward to 3 parts - must comply with the size constraints for ane function when installed together with must come upward with consummate instructions for installation.

RULES: Submission

The Digital Image

You are required to upload ane photograph of your entire portrait. You also have got the choice to submit an extra photograph of a particular of the work. This may live a goodness chance to present the degree of detail, the texture of the pigment or a particular surface area of involvement inward the composition.
  • Images must be:
    • Saved inward JPEG (.jpg) format
    • Smaller than 3MB (3,000k)
    • At to the lowest degree 1,080 pixels on its longest side (height for portrait format images, width for landscape format images).
  • The choice procedure is based on the paradigm you lot upload - fifty-fifty if it is non finished when you lot upload it
  • You larn to create upward one's heed whether or non to include the frame
  • You tin supplement with a instant photograph which shows a selected crop of a particular of the painting. This is your chance to demonstrate technique together with expertise.

The submission process

  • Complete the 2016 online entry form 
    • upload it together with the paradigm and 
    • pay the registration fee (£40) to the NPG 
    • by 23.59 on Tuesday 2 Feb 2016.
  • All correspondence with artists volition live via e-mail - together with it's upward to you lot to banking concern check your email!
  • All entrants volition live notified if their function is selected 
    • for the instant circular of judging by 27 Feb 2015.
    • for exhibition by 1 Apr 2015.
  • Artwork for the instant circular of judging needs to live delivered betwixt Monday fourteen together with Fri xviii March 2016. (I advise you lot banking concern check that you lot tin larn the artwork in that location inward ii weeks without breaking the bank)
  • There are lots of really detailed requirements equally to submission together with collection of the actual painting - I've summarised some of these below but in that location is to a greater extent than together with my advice is to read it all really carefully!
    • All artists are responsible for the insurance of their works. In other words submit at your ain risk.
    • The National Portrait Gallery volition NOT conform courier collections or post plant on behalf of the creative soul (unless they are international - I'm non certain whether Scotland together with Wales count!)
    • International artists should also pay particular attending to their fiscal liabilities (eg import duties etc) together with what they are required to do. The gallery volition brand certain that your packaging is kept thus that it tin live reused when the courier /transport agent comes to collect your work. The Gallery volition send the function dorsum to you lot if you lot include pre-paid postage
  • There are detailed atmospheric condition relating to copyright together with publication which all entrants should read.

The Judges

Artists should live aware that all plant are judged on an equal together with anonymous footing together with that in that location is no segregated judging past times percentage or country.
The Judges this twelvemonth are:
I'm peculiarly pleased that Jenny Saville (who loves paradigm flesh together with unexpected perspectives on the body) is ane of the judges - I've long admired her work. For those who don't know her or her function read this Telegraph article Jenny Saville: ‘I similar the downward together with muddied side of things’ and an before ane from 1998 -  A body of work.

Below is a video past times Competition Judge Sarah Howgate on how the function is selected. Bear inward heed that this was before the introduction of the digital entry procedure together with the judges alone seeing digital images prior to producing the long listing for the instant circular of judging (and I'll supersede this when a to a greater extent than upward to appointment video becomes available - I'm checking with the NPG)



How to larn selected


If you lot are thinking nearly entering, let's live really clear that it's a major bargain only to larn selected.

It would live really presumptious of me to tell you lot how to larn selected.

However in that location are things that ane notices when viewing the exhibitions over the years - together with equally trends (and Judges) come upward together with go. So that's why I write this section. Essentially I'm offering you lot the best advice I tin offering - amongst the links to my posts nearly all the past times exhibitions (see end) - based on:

  • track record
  • the artwork
  • technical aspects which tin improve

Just call back - those who win the firstly fourth dimension they move inward are few together with far betwixt - together with I've got a video interview with ane of them (Aleah Chapin) below

Track record

  • Build upward a rails tape of existence selected for the exhibition. 
    • To construct upward a rails tape firstly you lot have got to enter. 
    • The argue for developing a rails tape of existence selected is because prizewinners (but non e'er the winner) really oft tend to come upward from those who have got previously been repeatedly selected for the exhibition.  
    • I have got a brusk listing of a few painters who I confidently hold back volition win prizes inward this contest inward the future. 

The Artwork

  • Paint for yourself together with non for the Judges. People who 'copy' compositions or paintings styles which they think the Judges similar powerfulness larn selected but they don't oft win prizes.
  • Paint to a greater extent than than a caput - demonstrate you lot tin practise commissions involving hands! 
    • Take a human face at the of late commissioned portraits inward the NPG collection. Such commissions really oft have got heads together with upper torsos including the hands. Given that the firstly prize winner volition live offered a committee you lot may good heighten your chances past times demonstrating an powerfulness to pigment to a greater extent than than a head.
    • review my past times videos of the exhibitions (see my YouTube playlist for my videos of the BP Portrait together with Travel Awards) to encounter the nature of the portraits which overstep far through to the final 
    • Last twelvemonth in that location were fifteen consummate figures (although ii had no face); 16 portraits of the body - including hands; 2 portraits of the upper body (minus hands) and 
    • 21 portraits of the caput alone i.e. 56% of the portraits included hands together with torso
  • Paint to a greater extent than than ane person! I've been advocating paradigm to a greater extent than than ane soul equally a way of standing out from the residual of the entries for a petty while. 
    • Last twelvemonth the exhibition included xi double figure portraits (20% of the total) - together with ii of them were prizewinners! I'm non claiming the credit (very few portraits have got included to a greater extent than than ane soul inward the past) but I'm left wondering if people took my advice lastly year! :) 
    • The of import dot is that paradigm ii people together with setting upward a narrative betwixt them creates to a greater extent than than twice the chance to impress! 
  • Think really carefully nearly size. I did an analysis of lastly year's exhibition which you lot tin encounter inward this post BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2015 - video together with analysis - it provides an in-depth analysis of 3 portrait factors - size, type together with number. 
  • Enter your really best work. You demand to live a goodness justice of the measure of your ain function to know whether or non you lot are ready.  
I advise you lot lookout adult man the video below of my interview with the 2012 winner Aleah Chapin inward which she talks nearly belongings off until she idea she was gear upward to enter. She also talks nearly the whole procedure of entering together with winning.



    Technical aspects to improving your chances

    Here are some suggestions nearly to a greater extent than technical aspects for getting selected - based on sense together with observation:
    • excellent digital images practise brand a difference. That's because it's impossible to live confident inward the qaulity of the function if the resolution or color are 'off'. 
      • The photograph also needs to live an accurate together with totally instance of your portrait. It's thus slowly to spend upward artwork which disappoints when seen inward soul compared to the photo! 
      • Last twelvemonth I heard nearly painters who kept paradigm afterwards they had entered together with sent inward the digital paradigm of their entry. The NPG says this is fine - all the same the portrait volition live assessed initially on the digital paradigm submitted. Personally I wouldn't hazard it together with would focus on improving fourth dimension management!
    • Create a timetable to consummate your portrait on time - the alone way portraits larn painted on fourth dimension - and avoid a serial of all nighters  - is if you lot diarise your commitments to paradigm together with stick to them.  First of course of educational activity you lot demand to know how long a paradigm volition convey - together with that alone comes with experience.  Planning to destination inward goodness fourth dimension way you lot won't brand wretched sentence calls nether pressure. Plus you'll have got plenty fourth dimension to larn the paradigm photographed properly (see above).

    The BP Portrait Award Exhibition


    2016 Exhibition

    The BP Portrait Award 2016 Exhibition volition live opened upward to Blue Planet at the National Portrait Gallery from Th 23rd June to Dominicus xviii September 2016 (which I brand ane calendar week less compared to lastly year)

    2015 Exhibition

    You tin encounter the 2015 BP Portrait Award exhibition at The Scottish National Portrait Gallery (10th Oct 2015 − 28th Feb 2016) - which is before than lastly year

    Want to know to a greater extent than nearly the BP Portrait Award ?

    For all farther enquiries to the consequence organisers delight contact:  

    • BP Portrait Award 2016, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE   
    • Telephone: 020 7321 6699   
    • email: bpaward@npg.org.uk 
    • Office hours are 9.00 – 17.00, Mon – Friday.


    Subscribe or Bookmark this weblog if you lot desire to encounter futurity weblog posts nearly the BP Portrait Award. (for subscriptions encounter side column)

    In the futurity I volition publish:
    • a reminder nearly the deadline for entries 
    • the listing of artists selected for the exhibition 
    • the listing of shortlisted artists 
    • the awards ceremony 
    • video interviews with the prizewinners
    • a review together with video of the exhibition 
    Below are weblog posts nearly before exhibitions on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark. Note these include links to my videos of the exhibition.

    If you lot only desire the videos together with thus overstep to the BP Portrait together with Travel Awards Playlist on my YouTube Channel

    BP Portrait Award 2015

    BP Portrait Award 2014

    BP Portrait Award 2013

    BP Portrait Award 2012

    BP Portrait Award 2011

    CALL FOR ENTRIES: BP Portrait Award 2011
    BP Portrait Award 2011 Shortlist
    BP Portrait Award 2011: links to Selected Artists
    Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2011
    BP Travel Awards: 2010 (Paul Beel) together with 2011 (Jo Fraser)
    BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Statistics

    BP Portrait Award 2010

    BP Portrait Award 2009

    BP Portrait Award 2008 

    BP Portrait Award 2007

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