» » » » » » » » » Brand New!! Bp Portrait Abide By 2013 - The Shortlist

Brand New!! Bp Portrait Abide By 2013 - The Shortlist

, , , , , , , Edit
This year, inwards a alter from previous years, entirely ii artists direct keep been shortlisted for the £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2013 and both direct keep painted portraits of sons together with daughters.

Notably both paintings demo total figures together with non merely heads or heads together with upper body lonely together with it's blatantly obvious that the creative someone knows the sitter(s).  I'm speculating that nosotros may last calling this the twelvemonth of the render to the really observational epitome - from life.  Those aspiring to motility into adjacent year's contest should direct keep note!  These primal points close the nature of the portrait required for this contest are ones I highlighted inwards my Call for Entries post dorsum inwards Dec (see BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries)

Artists shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award

In previous years nosotros direct keep had 4 artists shortlisted for the get-go 3 prizes addition the Young Artists Award.

However this twelvemonth the prize coin has been redistributed then that the get-go prize coin has been increased together with the Third Prize has been eliminated.  This agency the prizes for the BP Portrait Award are straightaway every bit follows:
  • BP Portrait Award Winner -  £30,000 cash prize a committee worth £5,000, to last agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery together with the artist.
  • BP Portrait Award Runner upwards - £10,000 
  • Young Artist Award - £7,000
  • BP Travel Award 2013 - £6,000
Those inwards the running for the Young Artist Award (for the function of a selected creative someone aged betwixt eighteen together with 30) together with the BP Travel Award volition honor out at the Awards Evening on eighteen June who the winner is.  This makes feel to me every bit inwards recent years every bit it's commonly been possible to say who is the winner of the Young Artist Award inwards advance purely on the reason of age!

As e'er the panel of judges saw all the master paintings entered. The jury for the awards were:
  • Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
  • David Dawson, Painter together with Photographer
  • Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery
  • Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary
  • Ali Smith, Author
  • Des Violaris, Director, United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Arts & Culture, BP
Both the artists shortlisted for the 2013 BP Portrait Award 2013 have painted their children. They are:
  • John Devane for The Uncertain Time and 
  • Susanne du Toit for Pieter.

John Devane - The Uncertain Time

'The Uncertain Time' 
1720 x 2490mm, stone oil on canvas
© John Devane
Age: 58
Nationality: British
Occupation Head of Department, Design together with Visual Arts, School of Art together with Design, Coventry University and
Current home: Midlands
Art education: MA (Painting) from the Royal College of Art, 1975, B.A (Hons), Fine Art, Liverpool Polytechnic. 1972, Foundation Course, Blackpool School of Arts together with Technology
Previous appearances inwards this award: In the House of The Cellist (1995)
Website: BBC - Your Paintings - a slideshow of 12 paintings past times John Devane
Subject: The Uncertain Time (1720 x 2490mm, stone oil on canvas).
His large grouping portrait is of his 3 children: Lucy, 25, Laura, 20, together with Louis, xv which was painted over the course of instruction of 3 years.  His aim was to demo how children emerge from childhood together with laid out to assert their independence revealing something of their adult selves.

The composition suggests an almost stage-like shallow infinite constructed inwards ii zones amongst the 3 figures presented every bit if they are awaiting around form of event.

The artist’s primal points of reference are the industrial plant of Courbet, Chardin, Degas, Balthus together with Samuel Beckett.

John Devane has lectured extensively at diverse universities since 1980 in Fine Art at BA together with MA level.  He's held his acquaint seat of Head of Department of Design together with Visual Arts since 2004.  He's likewise active at a national grade inwards the National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE).

Susanne du Toit - Pieter

Age: 58
Nationality: South African past times birth
Occupation:  Artist
Current home: Crowthorne, Berkshire
Art education: University of Pretoria (mid 70s) together with the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (mid 80s)
Previous appearances inwards this award:
Website: http://www.susannedutoit.com/  You tin encounter more of her portraits
Subject: Pieter (1080 x 830mm, stone oil on canvas)

Pieter
1080 x 830mm, stone oil on canvas© Suzanne Toit
Her shortlisted portrait is an stone oil epitome of her eldest boy Pieter, aged 35. The portrait is part of a series of portraits of her job solid unit of measurement together with the pose was his own.  She has e'er establish hands essential to communicating personality together with her entirely status of the pose was that his hands would appear prominently inwards the composition.
I await to the body to render every bit much appear every bit the face. Having said that, the averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me every bit feature of his reflective character, together with became intensely engaging.

BP Portrait Award 2012 - The Exhibition

The portraits become on display to the populace at the BP Portrait Award 2013 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on xx June prior to a tour to ii other fine art galleries inwards the UK. The dates of the 3 exhibitions together with venues are:
The exhibition volition likewise include a display of the paintings past times Carl Randall, the winner of the BP Travel Award 2012.  

He proposed next inwards the footsteps of the Japanese printmaker Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858). Hiroshige produced a serial of woodblock prints on his travels which serve every bit an artistic document of life inwards Nippon inwards the 19th Century. Starting inwards Tokyo together with travelling to Kyoto, Randall has likewise produced a serial of portraits depicting locals along the route every bit it exists today, contrasting amongst life establish inwards Hiroshige’s time. 
I direct keep visited a cross-section of professions from quondam together with novel Japanese guild - from salary men inwards part blocks, to farmers inwards rice fields; employees of superhighway restaurants, service stations together with roadside hotels.

Previous Commissions past times BP Award Winners

The BP Portrait Award website this twelvemonth highlights for the get-go fourth dimension the type of commissions which direct keep been undertaken past times previous accolade winners.  I retrieve this underlines my dot close the creative someone beingness able to demonstrate that they tin pigment to a greater extent than than merely a head.

This is the link to the Commissioned Portraits.  Each portrait indicates the sitter together with the BP Portrait Award winner who painted it.  The appointment of the portrait is non the twelvemonth the creative someone won the award.

One of my personal favourites is the portrait of Craig Wylie wins BP Portrait Award 2008.

Previous spider web log posts close the BP Portrait Award

I know that people reference my posts when trying to create upwards one's take away heed whether or non to enter.  (Some of them fifty-fifty become on to win prizes!)  So here's the consummate listing of BP Portrait spider web log posts.

BP Portrait Award - Shortlisted artists on Making H5N1 Mark:

BP Portrait Award 2012
BP Portrait Award 2011
BP Portrait Award 2010
BP Portrait Award 2009
BP Portrait Award 2008<
BP Portrait Award 2007



Subscribe to receive free email updates:

0 Response to "Brand New!! Bp Portrait Abide By 2013 - The Shortlist"

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)