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12Th Wild Animals Creative Individual Of The Twelvemonth Won Past Times Stephen Rew

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The Wildlife Artist of the Year 2019 Exhibition is currently on at the Mall Galleries until s June 2019.  It contains 152 artworks for sale which were juried together with selected for exhibition.

 The Wildlife Artist of the Year juried fine art contest was established by David Shepherd CBE FRSA (1931 – 2017). It represents his vision for ‘The Art of Survival’ – using fine art for wild fauna conservation. The exhibition is all nigh exhibiting the best inward wild fauna fine art together with raising funds for wild fauna conservation.

 Below yous tin find:
  • facts nigh the exhibition together with how to consider it
  • the listing of the laurels winners
  • my commentary on the exhibition - which this twelvemonth is focused on what's different

Includes 2 paintings past times lastly year's winner (top correct together with centre)
together with 2 paintings of an brute - the polar deport - which won the twelvemonth before inward 2017!
You tin consider online
  • the shortlist of selected artworks featured inward the exhibition together with shortlisted for category prizes - for those unable to larn to London,
  • an online exhibition of those artworks which didn’t brand onto the walls of the exhibition at the Mall Galleries but which the judges believe demonstrate incredible science together with creativity. These are also for sale.
50% of every sale volition larn direct to saving endangered species together with fighting wild fauna offense across Africa together with Asia.
Unfortunately I missed the preview together with awards on Tuesday eve equally I was at the National Portrait Gallery all solar daytime watching the Final of adjacent year's Portrait Artist of the Year 2020 beingness filmed. However I visited the exhibition yesterday afternoon together with images from this year's exhibition tin live found below.

The Wildlife Artist of the Year Exhibition



50% of the sales of all works of fine art also goes to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's wild fauna conservation projects across Africa together with Asia.
View of the exhibition inward the Main Gallery of the Mall Galleries
Every twelvemonth this exhibition attracts a lot of entries from all over the world. Many wild fauna artists regard simply getting selected equally a major achievement given the number together with calibre of the entries it gets.  It's peculiarly rigid on wildlife fine art of the to a greater extent than exotic variety.

The contest is opened upwards to amateur together with professional person artists aged 17 together with over together with welcomes all traditional artistic mediums (excluding digital together with photography).

For all aspiring wild fauna artists it's an ESSENTIAL exhibition to visit. Although yous tin persuasion the prizewinners online together with on Facebook, yous tin only actually appreciate the character of the paintings together with sculpture when viewed inward the galleries.

The exhibition opened on Midweek 29th May together with is opened upwards equally follows
  • Until Fri – 10am to 5pm
  • Saturday – 10am to 4pm
  • Sunday – 10am – 1pm
MORE OBSERVATIONS on the exhibition after the listing of awards below.....
Very furry together with feathery


Awards together with Views of the Exhibition


The awards are listed below
  • There's an prototype for each laurels + details of the media, size together with price 
  • plus a profile of each artist. Their website is embedded inward the name.
Unlike lastly year, the website does non render the comments from the Judges adjacent to each laurels on the website.

Wildlife Artist of the Year 2019 (£10,000) - Stephen Rew

‘Writhe’ past times Stephen Rew
The judges commented on how brave the slice was, to practice something hence incredible together with unique to live hung on a wall.

I'd add together - to live hung on a wall - together with and then plough the corner!

Stephen Rew completed an arts plane at Swansea University. In betwixt his studies he spent fourth dimension studying animals inward the wild inward India, the Middle East together with Africa's Kwa-Zulu Natal. His paintings together with bronze sculptures bring been shortlisted for iii consecutive years for David Shepherd's Wildlife Artist of the Year competition.

The Wildlife Artist of the Year Runner Up (£1,000) - ‘Reflection’ past times Tamara Pokorny


One artwork is selected equally the runner upwards of Wildlife Artist of the Year 2019 together with is awarded a prize of £1000. This twelvemonth it was a really detailed scratchboard depiction of a Lionfish by Tamara Pokorny SSA from Baden-Wurttemberg inward Germany. Tamara won the Wings category inward 2015.

She excels at monochrome piece of job together with her piece of job of scratchboard together with ink.

Reflection by Tamara Pokorny
Wildlife Artist of the Year Runner-up
Category: Into the Blue
Scratchboard together with ink | 31 x 25 cm | £2,050
"When depicting animals, I bask the chance of occasionally offering a persuasion of species that are non equally oftentimes represented inward brute art. What draws me to recreate a sure enough instant or come across tin live an animal's pose or attitude, the lighting or the experience of its environment, or a floor that needs to live told.

Category Winners


Animal Behaviour - ‘All Mine’ past times Sarah Cosby

Open to fine art which shows a existent agreement of brute behavior together with a feel of character.

The Artist Magazine Award / Animal Behaviour - ‘All Mine’ past times Sarah Cosby

This piece of job also won the The Artist Magazine Editor’s Choice (Provided by The Artist magazine) is....
Chosen past times Editor, The Artist Award winner is given a profile characteristic for publication inward The Artist, impress together with digital issues.
Sarah Cosby won 2 awards with this watercolour together with watercolour pencil piece of job on paper.


‘All Mine’ by Sarah Cosby
Watercolour pencil together with watercolour on newspaper | 48 x 48cm | £1,500

Sarah has a Master (Honours) Art History from University of St Andrews, Scotland. She together with then studied portraiture at the Florence Academy of Art (2009), has a London Postgraduate Diploma inward Fine together with Decorative Art from Sotheby's Institute of Art (2010) together with most of late studied at the London Atelier of Representational Art (LARA) inward 2013.  She has previously exhibited inward the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition inward 2016.

Her portraits of animals tin live found inward the Figurative department of her website.

Into the Blue - ‘Tayinloan Velvet 514’ past times Rich Simpson

Art illustrating the wonderful world of water, live it ocean, seashore, wetland, river or stream. 
‘Tayinloan Velvet 514’ past times Rich Simpson
articulated hollow bronze, 92 x thirty x 18cm extended, 18kg | £8,500
The correct hook of a velvet swimming crab (Necora Puber), represented at 12 times master copy scale

Rich Simpson's website states
His sculptures inward bronze pay tribute to the elegant mechanical solutions of life: the underlying principles amongst which nature creates form.

Wings - ‘Johnny Crow together with the Tremoloes’ past times Michael FitzGerald


Art showing the extraordinary multifariousness of winged wild fauna – birds together with insects, inward flying or at rest.
Johnny Crow together with the Tremoloes’ past times Michael FitzGerald
Oil on Canvas, 100 x 100cm £3,500
There was a really broad multifariousness of artwork inward the wings category - both inward terms of plain of report matter, artistic means together with media used

Vanishing Fast - ‘Desert Haze’ past times Laura Pearse


Art showing our vanishing world. It tin live whatever species officially listed equally endangered or threatened on the IUCN Red List – or whatever a landscape that is at risk.
Desert Haze past times Laura Pearse
crude on board, twoscore x 60cm £950

 Laura Pearse is a self taught creative someone born inward Rutland inward 1987. Laura lives inward East London together with works equally a specialised Portrait together with Wildlife artist. She has participated inward the Wildlife Artist of the Year contest 2016 - 2019.


Human Impact - ‘Shark Fins’ past times Sofiya Shukhova


A novel category, opened upwards to immature artists aged betwixt 17 together with 25 years. Judges are looking for dynamic together with political depictions of the consequences human life has had on earth’s wildlife.
‘Shark Fins’ past times Sofiya ShukhovaLinocut together with watercolour on paper
42 x 59cm
£580

Sofiya Shukhova is a Russian-native Singapore-based wild fauna artist. She is currently task her MSc inward Conservation together with International Wildlife Trade at the University of Kent, UK

This is a video she did for National Geographic Russian Federation which has English linguistic communication subtitles.



Urban Wildlife - ‘Black together with White’ past times Daniel Krysta


Entries inward an urban means or depicting the urban center life of animals together with plants. Judges are looking for both originality inward the habitat equally good equally the contrast betwixt wild together with urban life.
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Daniel Krysta is a Polish postwar & contemporary painter who was born inward 1976.  He graduated from the Faculty of Painting of Wrocław's Academy of Fine Arts, having completed his diploma inward Professor Stanisław Kortyka's studio. He lives together with works inward Wroclaw.

Earth’s Wild Beauty - ‘New Forest Dawn’ past times Cy Baker


Open to fine art illustrating wild landscapes, seascapes together with the people who alive inward these environments or piece of job to protect them.
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Cy Baker studied scientific instance at Southampton Institute together with Blackpool together with the Fylde College of Art. He used to piece of job equally a freelance illustrator doing paintings for diverse clients on both sides of the Atlantic, including Readers Digest, BBC Wildlife Magazine together with New Kingdom of the Netherlands Press. In 2015 he gave upwards piece of job to focus solely on beingness a total fourth dimension creative someone after he won a number of prizes inward wild fauna fine art competitions - notably Marwell together with Dartmoor. Since together with then he's sold a lot of paintings.

People’s Choice


Every visitor to the exhibition at the Mall Galleries, SW1 has the take away chances to vote for their favourite artwork. The artwork amongst the most votes past times the exhibition closing appointment is awarded a prize worth £500.



More nigh the exhibition


The exhibition is subsequently than lastly twelvemonth together with before than when it used to live the commencement calendar week of June (year inward together with twelvemonth out). However, it has, equally ever got lots of cerise dots on the piece of job which has sold.
I'm unclear who the Judges were - but the exhibition seemed to live unlike this year.
  • the layout is unlike - amongst the exhibition seeming to bring to a greater extent than infinite devoted to David Shepherd (North Gallery) together with invitee artists (Threadneedle Space) together with less infinite devoted to the actual artwork selected for the exhibition
  • the Catalogue has a novel await
  • the artwork is different.

The Layout


I can't say I spent a lot of fourth dimension inward the North Gallery together with Threadneedle Space together with that's because I only come upwards for the Wildlife Artist of the Year exhibition.

I retrieve years when the Wildlife Artist of the Year exhibition spread across both the Main Gallery together with the Threadneedle Space together with looked goodness inward both.  I couldn't piece of job out why they hadn't chosen to a greater extent than artworks for the exhibition together with increased the size of the exhibition.

Maybe the absence of David Shepherd has had an deport upon on those who submit work?

Monochrome on the mezzanine wall


Catalogue


I really much similar the novel catalogue which, on the pages showing the exhibits, has a to a greater extent than contemporary means together with clear labelling of all the exhibits which does non compete amongst the photograph.

BUT it was badly allow downwards past times the Category Introductions. Whoever idea nighttime coloured inks on a dark background communicated good needs to larn dorsum to graphic pattern schoolhouse together with pay exceptional attending to the concept of CONTRAST! There was none on most of the Introductions and, equally a result, I couldn't read a word!

Interestingly I idea some of the artwork looked much improve than the photograph - together with vice versa.

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Less of the same together with to a greater extent than cheaper fine art - or is it?

This twelvemonth nosotros received a tape of 1,326 submissions from artists across 56 unlike countries
First off I desire to say that, equally ever this is an outstanding exhibition for sculpture - which is wonderful together with really varied. It ever impresses me together with this twelvemonth did non disappoint.

It seemed on initial impressions - all the piece of job inward the 1 top dog gallery - similar at that spot was less piece of job overall. It's actually hard to count given the means the catalogue is organised without doing a manual count. However the number of submissions were upwards together with it seems equally if perchance the number of works exhibited was too.
The exhibition features over 150 finalist pieces selected past times our proficient judging panel, showcasing a multifariousness of techniques together with mediums from recycled plastic sculptures, to intricate pencil drawings, to vast colourful crude paintings, together with everything inward between.
The reality is that at that spot seem to live many to a greater extent than pocket-sized together with cheaper works than inward the past. Maybe this is inward recognition that parts of the fine art marketplace bring had a tough fourth dimension of belatedly but smaller cheaper works however sell good for amounts which won't intermission the piggy bank.  After all the aim of the exhibition is to sell piece of job to heighten funds for conservation.

Not all artwork which impressed at a distance continued to impress  on closer inspection.
What I did notice was that non all the piece of job was the same calibre of piece of job shown inward the past times - which did really much surprise me. Particularly given the works included inward an online gallery are those that the Judges thought

Which leads me to my adjacent query - which is "Who are the Judges?" I've scoured the website together with the catalogue together with I tin detect no lift of the names of the Judges. Maybe this has had an deport upon on the alternative of work. I'd similar to consider a leading call inward wild fauna fine art on the Judging Panel each twelvemonth - to supercede the expertise of David Shepherd.

I'd also similar to consider to a greater extent than nigh the artists who win prizes on the website. How nigh getting artists to write a mini profile equally happens for other fine art competitions?


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