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Brand New!! Edward Sutcliffe Wins Bp Locomote Abide By 2014

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Edward Sutcliffe alongside Copycat - with Li Wu Da
Oil on canvas, 150 x 60cm

This is the proposal which won Edward Sutcliffe the BP Travel Award 2014 (£6,000).

Any creative individual who submits operate for the BP Portrait Award tin give the sack also submit a proposal for the BP Travel Award - simply your proposal is exclusively reviewed if you lot are selected for exhibition.

The Travel Award is based on the thought that an creative individual of merit should accept the chance to operate inwards a dissimilar environs on a projection related to portraiture. The portraits painted every bit a effect of the projection as well as thus have their ain mini exhibition inwards the next year’s Portrait Exhibition.  Which agency you lot are as well as thus able to nation you lot accept had an exhibition of your operate inwards the National Portrait Gallery!

The proposals accept been wide-ranging as well as accept resulted inwards exhibitions which appear to accept an ever increasing high standard. So if you lot submit beware you lot accept a really high measure to alive upwards to.

‘Straight Outta Compton’ BP Travel Award Proposal 2014 – Portraits from Compton Cricket Club


A few miles S of the glitz as well as glamour of Hollywood lies Compton, an expanse of Los Angeles synonymous alongside poverty as well as crime. It was from this environs 20 years agone that Compton Cricket Club was formed every bit an maiden to assist encourage as well as empower the disaffected youth of a neighbourhood pulsing alongside gangs as well as lawlessness. It is their amazing story, rich inwards grapheme as well as powerful inwards emotion that I am inspired to paint.

It is my ambition to Travel to Los Angeles this summertime as well as witness this wonderful grouping of people that accept transformed their lives through Compton Cricket Club. By spending every bit much fourth dimension alongside the squad every bit possible (whether on the pitch or inwards their everyday lives) as well as seeing the impact playing cricket has had on these amazing individuals from approximately of L.A.'s toughest streets, I volition survive able draw, pigment as well as document the players, producing a grouping of astonishing portraits to survive included inwards adjacent year’s exhibition.

Cricket is a wonderfully chivalrous game that has never lost its Victorian ethos of fair play as well as I desire my operate from this projection to survive a serial of startling paintings that fuse the starched whites as well as leather on willow (typified thus vividly inwards the portraits on display at Lords) alongside tattoos, depression slung jeans, as well as baseball game caps that accept come upwards to symbolise the distinctive visual civilization of South Central Los Angeles.

I accept late made contact alongside Katy Haber, the founder of Compton Cricket social club as well as the social club captain , Ted Hayes. Since the formation of the social club they accept both helped to adjust tours to the UK, Commonwealth of Australia as well as are fifty-fifty currently arranging a trip to South Africa. They are both really excited virtually the possibility of my see as well as experience it would survive fantastic for the club. They accept suggested where as well as when I should see as well as would survive invaluable inwards helping me to successfully consummate this project.

Travelling for 3 weeks this summertime volition give me plenty fourth dimension to get together all the rootage cloth to arrive at a serial of paintings for the next June. Budgeting £1000 for flights, £2500 for accommodation as well as living expenses, £700 for equipment for the trip as well as a farther £1500 for materials as well as framing, I tin give the sack successfully consummate this projection for nether £6,000.

I believe that having this chance volition enable me to create an exhibition of portraits that demo an amazing visual fusion of 2 really dissimilar cultures as well as tell a wonderful even of the people that accept fallen for the game of cricket embracing it's ethos of fair play as well as honestly.   Edward SutcliffeApril 2014

More virtually yesteryear years of the BP Travel Award 

See my previous posts on this blog

Copycat yesteryear Edward Sutcliffe alongside Li Wu Da


Edward Sutcliffe is an 'old hand' at the BP Portrait Award. He has had operate included inwards the exhibition inwards 2000, 2007, 2009-2012. His icon this twelvemonth is of John Myatt - a good known fine art forger. Sutcliffe industrial plant inwards a highly realistic way as well as is interested inwards the processes of copying as well as mimicry, He commissioned Chinese creative individual Li Wu Da to pigment the appended distorted mirror epitome of the portrait at the human foot of the panel to add together a farther re-create as well as reinterpretation.

What I liked most virtually this portrait is that on the confront of it looks highly realistic until you lot await at it closely. That's when you lot realise that the peel is made upwards of an intense designing of calligraphic type squiggles. In a way it's akin to a Chuck Close icon which looks really existent at a distance as well as much less thus unopen up.  It's abstraction inside realism - something I've ever establish really curious as well as entertaining as well as thus much to a greater extent than interesting than a at nowadays re-create of a photograph!


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