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Threadneedle Prize 2014 - The Shortlist

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Six finalists accept been selected for the Shortlist for the Threadneedle Prize 2014 awarded to the rattling best inwards novel figurative together with representational art.

The prize on offering is a £20,000 Prize and a solo exhibition of a wider trunk of run at the Mall Galleries inwards 2015. 

Artists shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize 2014 exterior the Mall Galleries the exhibition opens on 25th September
The finalists accept been selected from over 3,600 entries and their artwork volition endure exhibited amongst 58 other entries. The entries accept continued to growth yr on yr inwards business office fue to the continued sponsorship past times the Threadneedle Foundation.

The Threadneedle Prize Exhibition opens at the Mall Galleries on 25th September together with continues until 11th Oct 2014. All the industrial plant inwards the exhibition are for sale.

Importantly all exhibitors are also eligible for the £10,000 Visitors’ Choice Award.

The Threadneedle Prize 2014 Shortlist


The half-dozen shortlisted artists are:
They were selected past times a panel of experts comprising
  • Arts Commissioning Editor together with Art Critic at The Times, Nancy Durrant; 
  • Internationally exhibited together with collected sculptor, Kevin Francis Gray; 
  • Independent Advisor together with Curator of the Hiscox Collection, Whitney Hintz; and 
  • Gallerist together with Founder of Art Dubai, John Martin, who has 2 gallery spaces inwards London.
Panel fellow member Kevin Francis Gray spoke close the shortlisted artists
“This year’s shortlist highlights the talent of practicing artists who both uncovering ongoing inspiration inwards the human cast together with the abstraction of the human form, every bit indeed accept generations of artists before them. This year’s prize shows the ask for the back upward of a timeless reply – that of interpreting our artistic experiences inwards a means based inwards representation.”
Below you lot volition uncovering images of the run together with the artists together with my commentary on the run - every bit silent unseen inwards person.

However tomorrow nighttime is the Awards Dinner to which I am invited - together with I'm looking frontward to hearing the annunciation of who has won The Threadneedle Prize. My iPad volition endure going with me together with you lot powerfulness fifty-fifty larn a video!

Sue Williams A'Court

In her early on career every bit an illustrator Sue established an international reputation with agents inwards London, Paris, New York together with Tokyo. She has since developed her ikon practice, exhibiting regularly inwards London with paintings inwards populace together with private collections inwards the Great Britain together with Europe. Previously she has been selected for The Jerwood Drawing Prize, John Moore’s Painting Prize, the Royal Academy Summer exhibition together with the National Art Open Competition.
You tin run into a much bigger paradigm of the run selected for the curt listing on the abode page of Sue William A'Court's website.

Sue Williams A'Court is a contemporary painter living together with working inwards London. She's been a regular finalist inwards the of import fine art competitions inwards the Great Britain - inwards other words she is "known" together with "has form"!

Her artwork is curious inwards that she has used an one-time volume encompass for her back upward together with and hence used white pigment together with graphite to make her paradigm which has potent echoes of the Romantic tradition, the sublime landscape together with the paintings of artists working inwards this tradition such every bit Romantic painters similar Caspar David Friedrich together with JMW Turner.

Importantly it has echoes of of import landscape artists without existence a direct copy.

As such it reminds me of Henriette Simson's much larger painting Bad Government (After Lorenzetti) which won the Threadneedle Prize inwards 2011.

(For those non familiar with Lorenzetti's run - run into my post service Ambrogio Lorenzetti - the showtime panorama on The Art of the Landscape. 

Thomas Allen

As a self-taught artist, Thomas’s distinctive trend is a production of his personal experimentation together with artistic enquiry. The concepts behind his run oftentimes depict upon the ideas he was exposed to spell studying for his marking inwards Sociology. Since graduating, Thomas has received the Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award, the SEAWARD Prize together with the Arts Club Award at the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Painters inwards Water Colours. His run has been exhibited inwards unlike venues, including the Royal College of Art, the London Science Museum together with previously at Mall Galleries.
Thomas Allen's run appears to endure a drawing since it is created from charcoal together with sanguine.

You tin run into a much bigger version of "The Net" on Thomas Allen's website.

I'm getting a potent feel of an involvement ideas together with concepts which become beyond sociology (see below). There's something of mythology close it. It's also a rattling controlled together with defined idea, format together with palette.

He's previously exhibited at the Mall Galleries inwards 2014 - with The Royal Institute of Painters inwards Watercolours Exhibition and The Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition

Sarah Ball


Sarah Ball was born inwards Yorkshire together with lives inwards Wales. She won Welsh Artist of the Year inwards 2013.
Sarah Ball grew upward inwards South Yorkshire together with studied at Newport Art College. Since completing an MFA at Bath Spa University inwards 2005 Sarah has exhibited widely including the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, National Open Art Competition together with the University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize. She is currently Welsh Artist of the yr together with is working towards a demo inwards Dallas this Autumn.

Sarah seems to similar ikon people who are unusual. I'm guessing she's working from measure photos of people - her before run seems to endure based on mugshots from the USA. However she reworks them hence they are clearly her paintings allbeit of unlike people.

Her shortlisted run is a Quadriptych - 4 paintings of individuals who all seem to accept a peel condition.  They cast business office of a serial called Damaged Humans 2014.

Tina Jenkins

Tina was runner upward inwards the Marmite Painting prize inwards 2010 together with was featured inwards Two together with a Half Dimensions curated past times Marcus Harvey at Pangolin inwards 2011. She had a solo demo at studio 1:1 inwards 2012. She was awarded the Owen Ridley Prize at the University of Reading for an outstanding MFA projection together with is the recipient of a bursary from Reading University to research her PhD inwards 2014. Tina’s run plays on together with roughly paintings historical constructs together with limitations. She re-conceptualises Painting every bit a Hysterical human activity suggesting this tin mobilise it every bit an affirmative forcefulness of thought.
Tina Jenkins looks fun. Interestingly she also has the most interesting explanation of her ikon on her Saatchi Art website!


David Teager-Portman

David is a sculptor from the northward of England, currently based inwards London. Having studied at Newcastle University BA Fine Art together with Royal College of Art MA Sculpture he lately exhibited at Turner Contemporary Margate together with The Wilson inwards Cheltenham.
David has been selected for the Saatchi Gallery New Sensations twice, The Open West twice, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Coutts Sculpture Prize together with The Catlin Guide.

David Teager-Portman is a sculptor - together with his run reminds us of why sculpture is of import to figurative art. His bronze sculpture looks to me to endure pretty large - together with I'm guessing it's in all likelihood pretty heavy too. (I don't envy him his courier costs!).

It's rattling strange - the figures remind me both of medieval fine art (Bayeaux Tapestry et al) together with a children's tv programme whose mention I've forgotten.  Simple stripped dorsum figures tin say stories of major significance.

As with the other artists you lot tin run into a much bigger paradigm of his sculpture on his website

Craig Wylie

Craig was born inwards Masvingo, Republic of Zimbabwe together with studied at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. He has had solo together with grouping shows both inwards the Great Britain together with internationally – exhibiting inwards Germany, France, Belgium, Hong Kong, South Africa, Canada together with the US. His run is represented inwards many private together with populace collections, including the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, with a ikon of Dame Kelly Holmes, commissioned later on he won the BP Portrait Prize inwards 2008. Craig lives together with industrial plant inwards London.
I'm most familiar with Craig Wylie's portraits. I met him the nighttime he won the BP Portrait Award - having already picked his run every bit the winner inwards advance(!) - together with accept followed his run e'er since both inwards price of his commissioned portrait together with his exhibitions.

I intend his ikon selected for the shortlist is actually impressive. I know rattling good the type of complete together with approach to hyperrealism that Craig brings to his work. Technically he's a rattling fine painter. However his latest paintings accept moved away from the 'straightforward' portrait together with are straightaway much to a greater extent than intriguing. He's also moved from ikon heads together with clothed individuals - only his paintings rest massive. His entry is a half-dozen footer!

This one's got the await of a possible winner to me........ What on world is nether those cloths together with what is going on?  Plus I dear the ikon of the flesh together with the back.

A figurative fine art exhibition


Lewis McNaught, Director of Mall Galleries, who has overseen the Prize since its inception, adds:
“The Threadneedle Prize exhibition gives a powerful vocalization to figurative fine art through a arrive at of unlike subjects, techniques together with mediums. This year’s shortlist of upward together with coming artists is taking the Prize to a novel flat of achievement. Visitors to the exhibition volition also relish a pick of industrial plant past times to a greater extent than established artists invited past times invitee curator Sacha Craddock. These complementary silent contrasting approaches to pick volition reinforce the touching on together with influence that figurative fine art has inside the context of contemporary fine art today.”
Guest curator Sacha Craddock’s pick inwards the ‘Curated Space’ volition characteristic run past times 8 leading Great Britain together with international artists, all of whom role figurative fine art every bit their starting point. Together they volition lift together with consummate the exhibition’s comprehensive annual survey of Figurative Art Today.

Previous Threadneedle Prizes


The Threadneedle Prize 2013


Threadneedle Prize 2012 - to a greater extent than from Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark

2011 Threadneedle Prize 

Note: The Threadneedle Prize was established inwards 2008 together with has the continued back upward of Threadneedle Investments, a leading international investment manager, demonstrating their long-term commitment to supporting the arts. Through the Threadneedle Foundation, the society is committed to investing inwards the community, edifice partnerships that make positive social touching on across a arrive at of sectors, with a item focus on fine art together with education.

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