A Novel £15,000 Prize For Portrait Painting

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters direct maintain announced a novel £15,000 prize for portrait painting. You direct maintain merely 3 months to pigment a submission!

The prize volition live on called "Conversations".
The intention is that it focuses on portraits involving to a greater extent than than i person.

£15,000 for the best run interpreting the subject of a conversation piece, including 2 or to a greater extent than figures.

It's sponsored yesteryear 7IM, an investment administration business.

I'm absolutely cockahoop! I'm real keen on the introduction of a pregnant prize which recognises the science required to create an effective portrait involving to a greater extent than than i person.

To this halt I've been lobbying quietly behind the scenes with "people who matter" for the terminal 2-3 years to elbow grease as well as brand this happen. To say I'm pleased is real much an understatement!

My rationale was that real many of the swell paintings of the yesteryear involved groups of people as well as yet, when you lot stance portrait paintings today, also oft they are portraits of individuals. It's every bit if everybody lived inwards a the world on their ain as well as interaction never took house or wasn't important.

I also believe that this is a peculiarly of import shape of portrait ikon every bit a pregnant reveal of private commissions for portraits involve to a greater extent than than i person. Hence creating interesting as well as effective portraits of multiple figures ought to live on a science acquired yesteryear every practising professional person portrait painter.

I intend those artists who may good border ahead inwards this contest volition live on those who ponder on how interaction inwards contemporary life powerfulness best live on represented inwards their portrait paintings for this prize. The form of painter who reflects on how nosotros utter with i about other today as well as who pick out the conversation piece paintings of artists similar Zoffany smasher upwards to date.

"Conversations" - Call for Entries

Who tin mail away enter

Any creative somebody over the historic menstruation of eighteen years of age. There is no limitation on where the creative somebody lives or works.

What tin mail away you lot enter

The novel prize aims to inspire novel paintings which describe as well as encourage interaction. This is defined as

the winning run (will be) a scene of 2 or to a greater extent than figures interacting, with each other and/or with the viewer

Another give-and-take for this powerfulness live on "a conversation piece" notwithstanding in that place are unlike ways of interpreting what this powerfulness hateful inwards today's society.

The sponsors commented

“We are real pleased to live on supporting the Royal Society of Portrait Painters as well as sponsoring The ‘Conversations’ Prize. The squad at 7IM as well as the RP artists both direct maintain a huge involvement inwards people’s conversations. From conversations nosotros drib dead to sympathise people, what drives them as well as what makes them happy; artists role this insight to limited their agreement inwards a agency that connects with the viewer; nosotros role that insight to brand certain nosotros create out our clients’ working capital alphabetic quality to come across their needs..” Conversations are at the pump of everything nosotros do, with our clients as well as for our clients, as well as hence it seems real plumbing fixtures to live on sponsoring this prize.”

Justin Urquhart Stewart, 7IM

Note that (drawings? as well as ) paintings tin mail away live on inwards whatever media but should non live on bigger than 2.4m along the longest dimension

Timeline

Online submission opened on Mon sixth Oct 2014
the Deadline for submissions is ix Jan 2015, 12 noon
Notification of pre-selection: Fri sixteen Jan (You postulate to Log inwards on to reckon if your run has been pre-selected)
Receiving Day (if pre-selected only): Sabbatum fourteen February, 10am - 5pm
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday 17 February, from 2pm

How to enter

Entry is via registration as well as the submission of a digital file at registrationmallgalleries.org.uk
Overseas artists should brand a quest of reading the banking enterprise complaint most how VAT operates inwards relation to artists domiciled exterior the UK
For amount damage as well as conditions, click here.

Entry fee

Entry fees vary according to the historic menstruation of the artist:

Submission fee £15 per work
or £10 for artists aged 35 or under

Exhibition

The novel prize volition shape an of import business office of the suite of prizes linked to the prestigious annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. All the shortlisted industrial plant volition live on exhibited amongst the industrial plant selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London inwards Apr 2015.

“We promise to attract about real interesting works, offering artists the challenges of a complex piece.”

Robin Lee-Hall