Video Of The Ing Discerning Amount Exhibition 2014

Last calendar week I visited the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition towards the goal of its run at the Mall Galleries. It continues online on the website.

I've mislaid the catalogue inwards which I made my notes which has made doing a review a flake to a greater extent than hard than usual. However I'm loath to omit it from my reviews equally I know a lot of people similar to run into what it looks similar when thinking almost an entry for adjacent yr - as well as non all of us alive inwards London as well as tin john larn to run into it easily!

Hence this is a largely visual review - showtime a video as well as and so a pick of photographs I took of pieces I liked.

ING Discerning Eye 2014 - view of parts of the exhibitions curated past times Helen Sumpter as well as Nicole Green
Unfortunately the exhibition's website for roughly argue focuses on text as well as names rather than images - which frankly seems to me to hold upwards solely the incorrect means circular - the emphasis sure ought to hold upwards on artists as well as the images!

Hence I can't await at the images chop-chop as well as seat the artist........ I volition create my best.

2014 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition


The exhibition this yr included a sum of half dozen hundred as well as fifty-seven industrial plant past times 3 hundred as well as seventeen artists. This is to a greater extent than than inwards previous years as well as frankly parts of the galleries looked real crowded.

The website does NOT written report the percent of industrial plant which truly came from the opened upwards entry. (see ING Discerning Eye 2014 - Call for Entries). However this yr the sponsors accept drib dead to a greater extent than transparent almost the extent to which the exhibitions are selected from the opened upwards entry
Work is selected from opened upwards submission as well as from artists invited past times the private selectors.....The only restrictions are limitation of size (only pocket-size industrial plant are permitted) as well as to select at to the lowest degree 25% of their department from the opened upwards submission.
Frankly, I at nowadays hesitate to telephone scream upwards this either an fine art contest or an opened upwards exhibition amongst a minimum for industrial plant from the opened upwards entry set equally depression equally 25%.

For me an exhibition which characterises itself equally an opened upwards entry should accept at to the lowest degree 50% of the operate from the opened upwards entry.

In roughly ways I intend I'd almost rather run into a instantly properly curated exhibition past times half dozen individuals - amongst an injunction that this exhibition is non a rationale for giving your fine art students a leg upwards past times selecting their operate for the exhibition. The inclusion of students' operate inwards those circumstances says zip almost its intrinsic worth - it's only an accident of the pick of the curator. To my withdraw heed it's equally bad equally those opened upwards exhibitions where all the artists on the pick panel select their friends for the prizes. At the goal of the twenty-four hours such approaches only undermine the reputation of the exhibition as well as the jury process.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 transparent procedure would clearly signal those artists who made it through the jury procedure on the labels as well as inwards the catalogue - as well as and so nosotros could run into which curators truly made an endeavour to seek out the best from the opened upwards entry as well as which stuck to the artists they already liked or wanted to favour.

My preference has e'er been for an exhibition which is 100% selected from the opened upwards entry. I'm non sure we'll ever larn that - but the insidious downgrading of the opened upwards entry is, inwards my opinion, something which should hold upwards resisted.

A await circular the exhibition


To me parts of the Galleries looked real crowded - especially inwards the large West Gallery - piece a few other areas looked sparsely hung.  One wonders whether the curators are given whatsoever advice equally to how many industrial plant their infinite tin john comfortably accommodate.  I'm certainly no fan of pocket-size industrial plant beingness "skied".

I'm non trying to present you lot industrial plant inwards exceptional inwards the video so much equally present you lot the grapheme of the exhibition - which is half dozen pocket-size exhibitions past times dissimilar curators. You tin john run into their names higher upwards their pick equally the photographic boob tube camera pans around. The curators this yr were:
  • artists Nicola Green as well as Emma Stibborn RA
  • collectors Chris Ingram as well as physician Giles Brown
  • critics Simon Martin as well as Helen Sumpter



The monastic tell inwards which the pocket-size exhibitions are seen on the video are
  • Large West Gallery - Simon Martin, Helen Sumpter, Nicole Green, Emma Stibborn, 
  • Threadneedle Gallery - Giles Brown,
  • North Gallery - Chris Ingram
The exhibition I liked the best was past times Chris Ingram - who also selected the operate awarded the ING discerning Eye Prize, although in that place were private industrial plant I liked inwards all of the exhibitions.

Prizewinners

Can the organisers delight create the decent affair (i.e. abide by the artist) adjacent yr and
  • list the prizewinners on the website amongst their showtime get upwards as well as their surname inwards the right order.
  • give each of the prizewinning industrial plant a page amongst a unique URL so it tin john hold upwards clearly identified.
The 2014 prizewinners are listed below. The links inwards the titles of the operate which has won the prize is supposed to drib dead to the epitome of that operate on the website. However the website is educate inwards such a means that the emphasis is on the creative individual as well as non the unique artwork - thence it goes to the showtime slice if it it's a grouping of operate selected! Just maintain clicking until you lot larn to the ane which matches the title!

The links inwards the artists' names below drib dead their ain personal websites where you lot tin john run into to a greater extent than of their work.

  • ING Discerning Eye Purchase Prize £5000 - Rush hr (3/104) past times Dee Stanford 
Winner of the ING Discerning Eye Prize (5,000)
Rush Hour past times Dee Stanford
16x18 inches
Mixed metals
(watch out for it at the goal of the video - which volition hand you lot a feel of its scale)
  • DE Founder's Purchase Prize £2500 - 

  • DE Chairman's Purchase Prize £1000NEWLAND, PaulPrecipitation inwards the Ouse Valley (5/81) past times Paul Newland - who is Junior Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society.
Winner of the DE Chairman's Purchase Prize (£1,000)
Precipitation inwards the Ouse Valley past times Paul Newland
20x14 inches, Pencil, ink as well as chalk, £800
  • The Benton Purchase Prize £1000 Studio amongst turquoise socks ( 5/50) past times Tom Hughes - selected past times Chris Ingram - I've seen to a greater extent than than ane icon of his studio past times Tom
  • London Regional Prize £250 Oona Grimes - invited past times Emma Stibborn
  • South East Regional Prize £250 - “Over the wall” past times Neil Bousfield - selected past times Simon Martin. I'd accept had these listed nether "works I liked" if he hadn't won a prize!  Neil also has a weblog Neil Bousfield Prints
Works past times Neil Bousfield
Winner of South East Prize: “Over the wall” 17x15 inches, Wood engraving £265
  • Scotland Regional Prize £250 - Artist inwards the landscape - Dartmoor by David Caldwell - selected past times Emma Stibbon RA
  • West Country Regional Prize £250 -  Chris Rigbyselected past times Helen Sumpter
  • Wales Regional Prize £250 - Clive Hicks Jenkins - invited past times Simon Martin
  • Midlands Regional Prize £250 - Elisha Enfield - selected past times Helen Sumpter
  • East Anglia Regional Prize £250 - Bawdy House past times Benjamin Sullivan. Benjamin is a onetime winner of the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize as well as is the youngest individual ever to hold upwards elected to the New English linguistic communication Art Club as well as the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Bawdy House past times Benjamin Sullivan

More data almost the ING Discerning Eye fine art contest - artwork as well as selected artists


You tin john run into images of industrial plant selected inwards past times exhibitions inwards the archive.
All of our past exhibitions are archived here. Since 2008, the archive has included images of all works. The archive is indexed past times both creative individual as well as selector as well as in that place is a full site index available too.
You tin john also discovery out almost selected artists - as well as run into their websites - as well as what the artwork looked similar inwards the exhibitions inwards my weblog posts below.

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