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Edward Sutcliffe Wins Bp Move Accolade 2014

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Edward Sutcliffe amongst 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 soul who submits function for the BP Portrait Award tin also submit a proposal for the BP Travel Award - simply your proposal is solely reviewed if you lot are selected for exhibition.

The Travel Award is based on the thought that an creative soul of merit should convey the chance to function inward a unlike surroundings on a projection related to portraiture. The portraits painted equally a outcome of the projection in addition to thence have their ain mini exhibition inward the next year’s Portrait Exhibition.  Which way you lot are in addition to thence able to nation you lot convey had an exhibition of your function inward the National Portrait Gallery!

The proposals convey been wide-ranging in addition to convey resulted inward exhibitions which appear to convey an ever increasing high standard. So if you lot submit beware you lot convey a really high touchstone to alive upwards to.

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


A few miles due south of the glitz in addition to glamour of Hollywood lies Compton, an expanse of Los Angeles synonymous amongst poverty in addition to crime. It was from this surroundings 20 years agone that Compton Cricket Club was formed equally an first to assistance encourage in addition to empower the disaffected youth of a neighbourhood pulsing amongst gangs in addition to lawlessness. It is their amazing story, rich inward grapheme in addition to powerful inward emotion that I am inspired to paint.

It is my ambition to Travel to Los Angeles this summertime in addition to witness this wonderful grouping of people that convey transformed their lives through Compton Cricket Club. By spending equally much fourth dimension amongst the squad equally possible (whether on the pitch or inward their everyday lives) in addition to seeing the impact playing cricket has had on these amazing individuals from unopen to of L.A.'s toughest streets, I volition live on able draw, pigment in addition to document the players, producing a grouping of astonishing portraits to live on included inward side past times side year’s exhibition.

Cricket is a wonderfully chivalrous game that has never lost its Victorian ethos of fair play in addition to I desire my function from this projection to live on a serial of startling paintings that fuse the starched whites in addition to leather on willow (typified thence vividly inward the portraits on display at Lords) amongst tattoos, depression slung jeans, in addition to baseball game caps that convey come upwards to symbolise the distinctive visual civilisation of South Central Los Angeles.

I convey lately made contact amongst Katy Haber, the founder of Compton Cricket lodge in addition to the lodge captain , Ted Hayes. Since the formation of the lodge they convey both helped to conform tours to the UK, Commonwealth of Australia in addition to are fifty-fifty currently arranging a trip to South Africa. They are both really excited most the possibility of my see in addition to experience it would live on fantastic for the club. They convey suggested where in addition to when I should see in addition to would live on invaluable inward helping me to successfully consummate this project.

Travelling for 3 weeks this summertime volition give me plenty fourth dimension to assemble all the origin cloth to create a serial of paintings for the next June. Budgeting £1000 for flights, £2500 for accommodation in addition to living expenses, £700 for equipment for the trip in addition to a farther £1500 for materials in addition to framing, I tin successfully consummate this projection for nether £6,000.

I believe that having this chance volition enable me to exercise an exhibition of portraits that exhibit an amazing visual fusion of ii really unlike cultures in addition to tell a wonderful storey of the people that convey fallen for the game of cricket embracing it's ethos of fair play in addition to honestly.   Edward SutcliffeApril 2014

More most past times years of the BP Travel Award 

See my previous posts on this blog

Copycat past times Edward Sutcliffe amongst Li Wu Da


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

What I liked most most this portrait is that on the human face upwards of it looks highly realistic until you lot expect 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 in addition to much less thence unopen up.  It's abstraction inside realism - something I've e'er constitute really curious in addition to entertaining in addition to thence much to a greater extent than interesting than a lead re-create of a photograph!

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