Brand New!! Sophie Ploeg As Well As The Lace Trail - Bp Go Honor Exhibition At The National Portrait Gallery
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Sophie Ploeg's BP Travel Award exhibition 'The Lace Trail" tin currently last seen at the National Portrait Gallery inward London - until 21 September 2014. It hence tours to Sunderland together with Edinburgh inward 2014-15.
The exhibition follows on from Sophie winning the BP Travel Award inward 2013. Her exhibition is about Fabric together with Lace inward Early 17th Century Portraiture - An Interpretation inward Paint. To my hear it's a flake of a masterclass inward how to portray complex fabrics inward portraits - inward the past times together with the introduce - equally good equally an academic practice inward agreement something nearly the fine art history of the portrayal of lace together with how paintings from the past times tin inspire those of today.
What follows is:
As my video interview with Sophie makes clear, winning the BP Travel Award does non genuinely give y'all a yr to deliver a project.
The paintings all ask to last completed together with railroad train to paw inward good earlier the opening of the exhibition.
So a expert bargain of grooming together with planning together with beingness real organised helps enormously when it comes to producing a character exhibition - inward only 8 months! It's real evident that Sophie was real organised together with got all the trips, operate together with the paintings finished on fourth dimension - at the same fourth dimension equally beingness a married adult woman together with woman raise of 2 immature sons! This was a adult woman on a mission!
The Lace Trail exhibition forms utilization of the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery - if y'all go to ane y'all volition run across the other. Sophie's exhibition is close the door together with is the department hung on grayness walls.
Sophie Ploeg was born together with bred inward the Netherlands. She came to the U.K. inward 2000 together with at nowadays lives inward the West Country with her hubby together with 2 sons. She's a practising professional person portrait creative someone working inward oils together with pastels (who also paints even hence life - real ofttimes of fabrics) together with undertakes portrait together with garment commissions. Her operate has been exhibited inward the annual exhibitions of a reveal of national together with major regional fine art societies - including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters together with the Pastel Society.
Note: Having seen a lot of Sophie's operate inward prestigious exhibitions inward recent years I'd highly recommend her for anybody who wants a permanent painted tape of a special cloth or clothing. She's definitely ane of the best I know at portraying stuff together with fabrics - which tin last hence of import to the completion of a portrait or sometimes fifty-fifty last a tape of a someone or trial inward their ain right.
She studied fine art together with architectural history (MA, Ph.D) at Dutch universities. Consequently she came to her projection real good versed inward the fine art of question related to her interests!
Her winning proposal outlined a projection to explore how fashion together with lace was represented inward 17th century art, equally good equally inward modern applications.
The projection has involved a lot of operate too painting! In pursuing her projection she has:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of data nearly the projection is also available on a sub-domain of her website - http://www.lacetrail.sophieploeg.com. For trial y'all can:
What I flora real pleasing is that all of her portraits were of women. Sophie's portraits also supply a contemporary twist on the early on 17th century portraiture she studied inward museums across the U.K. together with the Netherlands. I flora myself guessing which portrait paintings had inspired her!
Another layer to the portraits completed are the portraits which inspired Sophie's portraits.
The models were told to have on what they liked together with hence Sophie added an original slice of antique lace - acting equally a remnant together with echo of the past. She took equally inspiration ane or to a greater extent than of the paintings she had identified during her research.
The iv paintings are:
Three to a greater extent than paintings are inward the exhibition. These are:
After the exhibition finishes inward London it volition hence tour to
The Book 'The Lace Trail contains details of Sophie's findings about
You tin buy a signed re-create of the mass at nowadays from Sophie
Alternatively y'all tin order her mass and/or prints of the portraits from the National Portrait Gallery online shop or purchase them inward the shops inside the Gallery.
If you'd similar to follow Sophie hither are the links to her website together with diverse social media sites:
The BP Travel Award 2013 was judged by:
See also my previous BP Travel Award posts on this blog
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| Sophie Ploeg with utilization of The Lace Trail the exhibition for the BP Travel Award 2013 at the National Portrait Gallery - 26 June - 21 September 2014 |
The exhibition follows on from Sophie winning the BP Travel Award inward 2013. Her exhibition is about Fabric together with Lace inward Early 17th Century Portraiture - An Interpretation inward Paint. To my hear it's a flake of a masterclass inward how to portray complex fabrics inward portraits - inward the past times together with the introduce - equally good equally an academic practice inward agreement something nearly the fine art history of the portrayal of lace together with how paintings from the past times tin inspire those of today.
What follows is:
- a video interview with Sophie Ploeg
- photographs of Sophie together with her models - with their portraits
- photographs of the exhibition
- a review of her mass - produced equally a upshot of her project.
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| Sophie Ploeg inward front end of She Becomes Her (2013) crude oil on linen, 1010 x 660mm |
The Lace Trail
As my video interview with Sophie makes clear, winning the BP Travel Award does non genuinely give y'all a yr to deliver a project.
The paintings all ask to last completed together with railroad train to paw inward good earlier the opening of the exhibition.
So a expert bargain of grooming together with planning together with beingness real organised helps enormously when it comes to producing a character exhibition - inward only 8 months! It's real evident that Sophie was real organised together with got all the trips, operate together with the paintings finished on fourth dimension - at the same fourth dimension equally beingness a married adult woman together with woman raise of 2 immature sons! This was a adult woman on a mission!
The exhibition
The Lace Trail exhibition forms utilization of the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery - if y'all go to ane y'all volition run across the other. Sophie's exhibition is close the door together with is the department hung on grayness walls.
Background to the "The Lace Trail" - some facts
Sophie Ploeg was born together with bred inward the Netherlands. She came to the U.K. inward 2000 together with at nowadays lives inward the West Country with her hubby together with 2 sons. She's a practising professional person portrait creative someone working inward oils together with pastels (who also paints even hence life - real ofttimes of fabrics) together with undertakes portrait together with garment commissions. Her operate has been exhibited inward the annual exhibitions of a reveal of national together with major regional fine art societies - including the Royal Society of Portrait Painters together with the Pastel Society.
Note: Having seen a lot of Sophie's operate inward prestigious exhibitions inward recent years I'd highly recommend her for anybody who wants a permanent painted tape of a special cloth or clothing. She's definitely ane of the best I know at portraying stuff together with fabrics - which tin last hence of import to the completion of a portrait or sometimes fifty-fifty last a tape of a someone or trial inward their ain right.
She studied fine art together with architectural history (MA, Ph.D) at Dutch universities. Consequently she came to her projection real good versed inward the fine art of question related to her interests!
Her winning proposal outlined a projection to explore how fashion together with lace was represented inward 17th century art, equally good equally inward modern applications.
The projection has involved a lot of operate too painting! In pursuing her projection she has:
- visited famous lace-making centres such equally Bruges inward Kingdom of Belgium together with Honiton inward Devon
- met modern lace makers together with artists,
- viewed antique lace collections in Bruges, Honiton, Bath together with Gloucestershire
- visited 17th century fine art collections including, with others:
- the National Portrait Gallery, The National Gallery, the Tate Gallery inward England, and
- the Rijksmuseum together with the Frans Hals Museum inward The Netherlands
- spent 8 months reading around the bailiwick together with project a pregnant amount of question nearly fine art history together with the history of lace.
- produced 10 paintings inward total equally a upshot of her projection - of which 7 are on display inward the exhibition.
- written a mass - The Lace Trail
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lot of data nearly the projection is also available on a sub-domain of her website - http://www.lacetrail.sophieploeg.com. For trial y'all can:
- read nearly her peril inward lace on her weblog together with her website (see research 1 together with research 2)
- see A Year inward Pictures - a slideshow of photos taken during the course of pedagogy of her travels together with work
Video interview with Sophie Ploeg
I interviewed Sophie prior to the opening of the exhibition to earth together with she provided a first-class trace of piece of job organisation human relationship of what it's similar winning the observe together with the operate involved to deliver the exhibition - together with a mass to accompany it.The Four Ages of Women
What I flora real pleasing is that all of her portraits were of women. Sophie's portraits also supply a contemporary twist on the early on 17th century portraiture she studied inward museums across the U.K. together with the Netherlands. I flora myself guessing which portrait paintings had inspired her!
Sophie together with her models
Another layer to the portraits completed are the portraits which inspired Sophie's portraits.
I wanted to honour these women (in the 17th century paintings) together with the lace inward my portraits. Although the sitters were ofttimes rich together with famous they were even hence only women, similar me together with possibly you, with their ain feelings together with taste. Their beautiful portraits inspired me to create portraits of women today: 21st century women. I possess got created four portraits that each represents a stage inward our life, iv generations of women. he women are non related inward whatever way, except they percentage many things with us together with the women of 400 years ago.Below y'all tin run across Sophie's portrait ikon together with her models for her series The Four Ages of Women.
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| The Four Ages of Woman - a serial of iv paintings oil on linen, 50 x 60cm This serial portrays modern 21st century women at diverse stages of their lives Their portraits portray them wearing an authentic slice of early on 17th century lace, equally ofttimes seen inward 17th century portraits. (top left) The Lacemaker (Top right) A Fine Thread (Bottom left) Repeating Patterns (bottom right) The Pearl Necklace |
The models were told to have on what they liked together with hence Sophie added an original slice of antique lace - acting equally a remnant together with echo of the past. She took equally inspiration ane or to a greater extent than of the paintings she had identified during her research.
The iv paintings are:
- The Lacemaker - a nine yr onetime daughter - the historic catamenia at which girls were already lacemakers inward early on 17th century. Inspired by Portrait of a Girl Dressed inward Blue, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, 1641
- A Fine Thread - a immature adult woman wears a strip of Dutch or Flemish bobbin lace c. 1640. The portrait was inspired by Portrait of Maria van Strijp, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, 1652 in the Rijksmuseum.
- Repeating Patterns - inspired past times lace collars ofttimes seen inward early on 17th century portraiture.
- The Pearl Necklace - The model wears a (modern) neckband edged with a real fine authentic Italian bobbin lace from around 1620. It was inspired past times a portrait of past times Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn by Marcus Gheeraerts, (c.1561-1635)
Other paintings
Three to a greater extent than paintings are inward the exhibition. These are:
- Pleating Time - I intend this is ane of my favourites, Sophie had to larn how to create a ruff to pigment this self-portrait
- She Becomes Her - Another favourite - partly because of the confront but also because of the spectacularly expert ikon of the fabric
- The Handkerchief Girl - this is a play on the recurring motif of a handkerchief inward 17th century portraits
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| Pleating Time past times Sophie Ploeg (2013) crude oil on linen, 400 x 600mm |
The Tour
After the exhibition finishes inward London it volition hence tour to
- Sunderland Museum together with Winter Gardens - 4 Oct – sixteen Nov 2014 - twmuseums.org.uk
- The Scottish National Portrait Gallery - 28 Nov – 12 Apr 2015 - nationalgalleries.org
Prints together with Book
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| Cover of 'The Lace Trail' book |
- early 17th century portraiture inward England together with The Netherlands,
- the history of early on lace,
- styles of ikon lace
- the background storey to her paintings and
- a catalogue department with all 10 paintings.
You tin buy a signed re-create of the mass at nowadays from Sophie
Alternatively y'all tin order her mass and/or prints of the portraits from the National Portrait Gallery online shop or purchase them inward the shops inside the Gallery.
Follow Sophie Ploeg
If you'd similar to follow Sophie hither are the links to her website together with diverse social media sites:
More nearly the BP Travel Award
The BP Travel Award 2013 was judged by:
- Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery,
- Liz Rideal, Art Resource Developer, National Portrait Gallery, and
- Des Violaris, Director, U.K. Arts together with Culture, BP.
See also my previous BP Travel Award posts on this blog
- 2012 - Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012 [UPDATE: and Carl Randall's Nippon - the best BP Travel Award Exhibition ever! ]
- 2011 - BP Travel Award 2011: Jo Fraser travels to Peru
- 2010 - BP Travel Awards: 2010 (Paul Beel) together with 2011 (Jo Fraser)
- 2009 - BP Travel Award - 2009 together with 2010
- 2008 - Exhibition Review: BP Travel Award 2008 - Emmanouil Bitsakis
- 2007 - BP Travel Award: Gareth Reid together with the Finnish wintertime bathers
- 2006 - View the BP Portrait Award 2007 together with BP Travel Award 2006 exhibitions
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