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The Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2013 was published this morn yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery inwards London. 

 This twelvemonth the get-go prize has been increased to £30,000. The Second Prize winner volition have £10,000 as well as the BP Young Artist Award winner £7,000.

It's a existent pleasance to review this Call for Entries each year, non to the lowest degree because inwards the past at to the lowest degree 1 creative somebody has read this post inwards the past, as well as so entered a portrait as well as won a prize.  This twelvemonth mayhap it volition live on you!

was published this morn yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery inwards London Brand New!! BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries
BP Portrait Award 2013 - Call for Entries
The Portrait Award, at 1 time inwards its thirty-fourth twelvemonth at the National Portrait Gallery as well as twenty-fourth twelvemonth of sponsorship yesteryear BP, is the most prestigious portrait paradigm contest inwards the world. With a get-go prize of £30,000 the Award is aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon as well as develop portraiture inwards their work.
Entry is online as well as the closing engagement is Monday 11th Feb 2013. You tin likewise download a postal entry shape from the website.

You tin let out out who tin move into as well as how to move into below.  This post provides:
  • reasons to move into this fine art competition
  • how to teach selected
  • an overview of the requirements for all those who would similar to move into a portrait
  • links to yesteryear exhibitions as well as reviews on this blog
NOTE: All quotations are from the BP Portrait Award website.

Reasons to move into the BP Portrait Award

From yesteryear experience I tin call back of a number of reasons WHY portrait artists should move into this contest - simply to live on selected for the exhibition.

The reality: In 2012, 2,187 artists from 75 unlike counties submitted their work.  The exhibition comprised simply 55 paintings.  That's a 2.5% gamble of beingness selected.  (see also: BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Statistics)

However:
  • it's a real prestigious as well as really international competition - as well as international artists win prizes! e.g. run across Aleah Chapin wins £25,000 BP Portrait Award 2012
  • Just to live on selected for the exhibition is a real existent as well as real pregnant achievement inwards itself.   Many artists try, but the contest has teach real intense and few are chosen. Hence being selected for the exhibition tin live on real beneficial for an artist's career - because this is an of import juried exhibition inwards a major national portrait gallery inwards the middle of London. 
  • Where else exercise you lot teach the gamble to exhibit your operate to over 250,000 people?  If selected your operate volition live on seen inwards an exhibition which is visited yesteryear an absolutely huge number of people. It's the most pop exhibition held at the NPG every twelvemonth - which agency you lot teach your fine art inwards front end of a lot of people - as well as some of them volition desire to committee portraits.
  • You (and the residue of London) may come upwards expression upwards to expression upwards amongst your portrait acre riding on the Underground. Your portrait may live on chosen to live on 1 of the few used to advertise the exhibition widely across London - or on an enormous banner exterior the Gallery!
  • Selected artists have got gained commissions from the NPG as well as others equally a number of the considerable involvement inwards the Portrait Award as well as the resulting exhibition.
  • It's a real leveller - at that spot are no perks for who you lot are. Even the ex President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters idea long as well as difficult close what to submit - because she actually wanted to live on selected.  (see this YouTube interview amongst Daphne Todd inwards which she talks close the paradigm she chose for the exhibition - as well as which won her get-go prize inwards 2010)
  • there's a People's Choice Prize for the most pop portrait amongst the visitors to the exhibition as well as it's e'er interesting to run across what get's chosen.
  • Winners of this contest tend to savour real pregnant benefits to their careers later on winning the BP Portrait Award.
To live on honest, the existent benefits are actually focused on portrait artists.  While anybody tin enter, those who are probable to teach the maximum exercise goodness from beingness exhibited are those artists who specialise inwards portraiture.

However you lot exercise demand to be organised to brand the most of beingness selected (website licked into shape, creative somebody disputation ready as well as available, a adept arrive at of other operate ready to live on seen; press unloose at the ready).  I'll live on doing some other post close how to brand the most of beingness selected for a prestigious fine art competition.

How to teach Selected
To teach selected you lot demand to create adept artwork as well as teach noticed.  So how does that happen?
Last twelvemonth I wrote a post, containing my ain observations close what it takes to teach selected - see Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1) and my listing of the factors which matter.

For example, did you lot know that

  • 22 out of 55 artists = 40% of the selected artists have got been selected for BP Portrait Exhibitions inwards previous years
  • most portraits commissioned yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery as well as caput as well as torso, acre others are total figure.  Relatively few are the caput alone.
You have got to live on actually fantabulous to live on selected as well as win a prize the get-go fourth dimension you lot move into - but it is possible!

Key Changes inwards 2013

These are the changes I've spotted which are novel to 2013.
  • Increases inwards prize coin for all the Awards
  • No Third Prize inwards 2013 - yet if nobody nether 30 is shortlisted as well as so the Young Artist prize volition NOT live on awarded as well as the funds volition live on diverted to a tertiary prize.  
  • NPG volition inwards futurity focus only on organising 1 cardinal collection point. They volition NOT organise a regional collection from across the UK.  (Which is non to state an enterprising courier mightiness non offering to exercise so).  I suspect this mightiness live on connected to the increment inwards operate associated amongst entries from International Entrants.  The details of how to submit as well as what is expected are likewise clearer for international artists.

Exhibition

The BP Portrait Award 2013 Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery volition live on opened upwards to Blue Planet from 20 June to fifteen September 2013.  The exhibition volition as well as so tour to 2 other venues inwards the U.K. inwards 2013-14 (dates as well as venues to live on announced).

Awards

The entire contest is judged, on an equal as well as anonymous basis, from master copy paintings. There is no segregated judging yesteryear share or country.

The awards are equally follows:
  • the get-go prize is a cash accolade of £30,000. Plus, at the judges' discretion, a committee worth £5,000, tin live on agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery as well as the artist. 
  • Second Prize: £10,000
  • BP Young Artist Award: £7,000 All selected artists aged betwixt xviii as well as 30 volition automatically live on considered for both the BP Young Artist Award as well as the BP Portrait Award, but an private cannot win both. The role of this accolade is to kicking the bucket along the competition's role inwards showcasing immature artistic talent.
  • BP Travel Award 2013: £6,000 (an increment of £1,000 on final year)
Note at that spot is no longer a tertiary prize.  However if at that spot are no exhibitors aged 30 or nether as well as so no Young Artist Award volition live on given as well as the funds volition live on used to offering a Third Prize.

Who tin enter

Do brand certain you lot written report the entry requirements. However inwards short, you lot tin move into if you lot are over 18, alive anywhere inwards the world, tin pigment a portrait of a human figure as well as savour portraiture!
This international contest is opened upwards to everyone aged xviii as well as over inwards recognition of the outstanding as well as innovative operate currently beingness produced yesteryear artists of all ages working inwards portraiture. The contest is judged, on an equal as well as anonymous basis, from master copy paintings. An exhibition is as well as so created from a option of the entries.
BP Portrait Award: The contest is opened upwards to all artists living anywhere inwards the solid set down who are aged xviii as well as over on 1st Jan 2013. This is inwards recognition of the outstanding as well as innovative operate currently beingness produced yesteryear artists of all ages working inwards portraiture.

BP Young Artists Award: All entrants from the 18-30 historic flow grouping volition automatically live on considered for both the BP Young Artist Award as well as the BP Portrait Award, but an private cannot win both. Artists must live on 30 years of historic flow or nether on 1 Jan 2013 to live on eligible for the BP Young Artist Award.

BP Travel Award: All 2013 exhibitors volition live on eligible to submit a proposal for the BP Travel Award. The aim of the Award is to supply the chance for an creative somebody to experience working inwards a unlike environment, inwards Great Britain or abroad, on a projection related to portraiture which volition as well as so live on shown equally business office of the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition as well as tour inwards 2013-14.

How to Enter

Deadline

Last things get-go - the deadline for your entry forms as well as entry fees beingness returned to the National Portrait Gallery is Monday xiii Feb 2012.

Entry forms as well as fees

You'll only let out out where as well as when to submit your operate if you lot consummate the registration as well as ship the entry fee.
All entry forms for the BP Portrait Award 2012
  • need to live on registered online www.npg.org.uk/bp 
  • OR returned to: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE 
You volition let out out whether or non your operate has been selected for exhibition yesteryear Wed 27 March 2013.

All correspondence amongst artists volition live on via electronic mail - as well as it's upwards to you lot to banking concern check your email!

The Rules

What you lot exercise NOT desire to exercise is create a operate for this contest as well as and so realise that it isn't eligible or you lot can't acquaint it inwards the correct way at the correct time!  Which is why you lot demand to read the rules 3 times now!

These are The 2013 Rules. There's a lot of them, they're white on dark (never slow to read) inwards real tiny impress amongst no spacing - amongst fifty-fifty smaller impress as well as less accessible color on the entry form.  In my sentiment that makes them impossible to read easily fifty-fifty if you lot have got fantabulous eyesight.

If you lot desire to kicking the bucket far easier for yourself follow what I have got to do.
  • block the rules
  • copy as well as glue to a wordprocessing software (I usage Google Docs)
  • convert the text to dark as well as the background to white as well as take away all formatting
  • that should convey the text into a normal font size at normal spacing which is much easier to read
I call back I mightiness start lobbying for the rules to live on available inwards a normal size font inwards a pdf document. Feel gratis to exercise the same....... ;)

Here's my endeavour at making the rules rather to a greater extent than accessible. I've split upwards the rules upwards into sections relating to
  • you - the creative somebody submitting the work
  • the portrait you lot are submitting
Note inwards special that industrial plant tin live on disqualified - fifty-fifty if selected for exhibition - if they have got non adhered to the rules! 

Don't forget to allow me know if your entry gets selected!

The rules - close YOU!
In brief:
  • the contest is opened upwards to all those aged over xviii on 1 Jan 2013. 
  • employees of the National Portrait Gallery, BP, as well as their agents, as well as previous get-go prize-winners of the Portrait Award since 1980 are NOT eligible to enter 
The rules close YOUR PORTRAIT

Pay special attending to these.  Last twelvemonth I detected more careful scrutiny as well as a tightening of the application of the rules.  Some are beingness spelt out to a greater extent than clearly - as well as presumably 1 must assume they have got been ignored inwards the past!

Each creative somebody is express ONE ENTRY PER ARTIST.

The operate entered
  • SHOULD live on a paradigm based on a sitting or written report from life.  You demand to signal on the shape whether or non you lot have got met the sitter.
  • AND the human figure MUST predominate.
  • MUST live on available for the flow of the exhibition as well as the tour to 2 other venues.
  • the portrait must live on recent ie it MUST have got been completed later on 1 Jan 2012
    • you are asked to confirm the start date.  This needs to pre-date the completion date (latter was novel final year.  I call back this is an expanse where entries have got been caught out inwards the past)
    • must NOT live on a operate previously submitted for consideration.   I'm guessing some artists have got been reckoning on the jury changing every year.  The reality is (1) records are kept of who enters what (2) some jurors are e'er on the jury
  • Media as well as Size:
    • MUST live on predominantly painted inwards oil, tempera or acrylic (No watercolours, industrial plant on newspaper or pastels volition live on considered - although I am soundless lobbying for pastels to live on admitted at some point!)
    • MUST live on on a stretcher or board, preferably framed as well as unglazed. 
    • MUST live on bigger than 25 x 20cm (10” x 8”) unframed. Smaller industrial plant volition non live on considered.
    • MUST live on smaller than 244 x 244cm (96" x 96") framed (including the frame).  The size restrain was presumably generated yesteryear 1 of the shortlisted industrial plant inwards 2011.  Multi-part portraits are considered equally 1 operate as well as likewise require  clear instructions equally to installation.
The rules - submission summary
  • Entry forms as well as registration fees must live on submitted to the NPG yesteryear eleven Feb 2013
  • All entrants volition live on notified if their operate is selected (or not) for exhibition yesteryear Wed 27 March 2013
  • There are lots of real detailed requirements equally to submission as well as collection of the actual paradigm - I've summarised some of these below but at that spot is to a greater extent than as well as my advice is to read it all real carefully!
  • All artists volition demand to insure their works
  • International artists should likewise pay special attending to their fiscal liabilities (eg import duties etc) as well as what they are required to do.
  • The Gallery is non responsible for wrapping industrial plant or providing wrapping materials to render industrial plant - (unless agreed as well as a fee paid  - but this applies to international entrants only)
  • All correspondence amongst artists volition live on via email!
  • The creative somebody is responsible for checking their electronic mail to run across whether your artwork has been selected or rejected.
  • The National Portrait Gallery volition non accommodate courier collections or post industrial plant on behalf of the artist.
  • There are detailed atmospheric condition relating to copyright as well as publication which all entrants should read.
Delivery Dates

Paintings delivered to the National Portrait Gallery volition NOT live on accepted. The Gallery uses a collection dot which is NOT the gallery.

Regional Collection Points:
The NPG volition no longer organise regional collection points inside the U.K. inwards 2013.  This is rather strange equally other competitions have got been getting amend at organising regional collection points as well as have got seen the number of entries from regional artists increment significantly equally a result.  This twelvemonth I await entries from U.K. artists volition REDUCE unless some enterprising courier trouble solid decided to organise regional collection.  Particularly given the ruling close packaging for the render journeying (see below)
The logistical as well as administrative implications of making the regional collections are no longer sustainable for us as well as nosotros experience that our focus needs to live on on 1 cardinal delivery dot at 1 time that nosotros have got increased entries from unopen to the world. The Gallery does recognise the commitment shown yesteryear artists from unopen to the U.K. as well as internationally as well as nosotros real much appreciate the endeavour taken to submit work. The Gallery remains committed to ensuring that artists from all regions of the U.K. are able to move into the contest so delight exercise teach inwards touching on if nosotros tin offering whatever advice on how to deliver/ship your work. The delivery address volition live on located centrally inwards London as well as confirmed via electronic mail at the fourth dimension of entry into the competition.
Delivery Dates - Hand delivery inwards somebody to London Collection Point

Paintings demand to live on delivered to a cardinal collection on the specific dates listed on the website - at the fourth dimension specified. 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Gallery representative volition supply a receipt on delivery of the work. Dates for deliveries are
  • For industrial plant arriving yesteryear post or courier:
    • Monday 4 March – Th fourteen March, 09.00–17.00 (excluding weekends)
  • For industrial plant delivered inwards person:
    • Monday eleven as well as Tuesday 12 March, 09.00–17.00
    • Wednesday xiii March and Thursday fourteen March, 09.00–20.00
    • No entries volition live on accepted at the London collection dot later on 20.00 on Th fourteen March 2012.
Interestingly the Gallery are making a real clear distinction betwixt unlike entrants equally to what happens re the packaging for entries

  • UK entrants - industrial plant that are hand-delivered MUST live on gratis of packaging / packing for industrial plant delivered yesteryear post or courier volition NOT live on retained 
  • International Entrants - tin live on delivered yesteryear courier / packaging volition live on retained as well as reused / accuse volition live on made if packaging cannot live on reused
UK ENTRANTS
  • Entries that are manus delivered should live on left without whatever protective packaging equally this cannot live on retained.
  • Deliveries yesteryear post volition live on accepted inwards suitable packaging.
  • The Gallery volition non live on responsible for wrapping industrial plant or providing wrapping materials for whatever industrial plant beingness returned.
INTERNATIONAL ENTRANTS
  • Artists non residing inwards the U.K. must accommodate as well as pay for delivery of their operate to the London collection dot on the allocated dates.If industrial plant are beingness shipped yesteryear courier, artists must select total responsibleness for all costs, including whatever import customs charges as well as duties. It is the artist’s responsibleness to banking concern check amongst their courier fellowship that their paintings have got cleared customs as well as have got been delivered on the allocated dates.
  • International entries volition live on re-packaged inwards the master copy packaging. It is the artist’s responsibleness to accommodate as well as pay for collection of their industrial plant from the London collection dot on the allocated dates.
  • If the master copy packaging is no longer suitable for use, nosotros tin supply packaging materials but at that spot volition live on an additional accuse for this service.
Return of operate non selected: All unselected industrial plant must live on collected from the address to which they were originally delivered on the dates listed inwards the rules, during the times specified. Works cannot live on returned to a unlike collection point. Works non collected from the collection points yesteryear the dates specified volition live on charged for at the carrier's green storage rates.

Note also
The National Portrait Gallery reserves the correct to dispose of or destroy whatever operate non collected later on 1 calendar month of the latest engagement for collection of unexhibited industrial plant or exhibited works.
Damage as well as Artist's Insurance

Read this 1 carefully.  Basically it agency fifty-fifty if somebody other than the creative somebody damages the entry as well as so they are NOT liable to you lot for whatever loss or damage.  If it's a portrait of value to you, you lot must accommodate insurance at your ain cost.
The responsibleness for harm or loss, yet caused, is the responsibleness of the artist. Artists are thus advised to accommodate adequate insurance encompass against such risks. The sponsor, the carriers, the collection point, the touring venues, whatever other subcontractor or the National Portrait Gallery shall non live on liable for whatever loss or damage, whether or non caused yesteryear their negligence.
Want to know to a greater extent than close the BP Portrait Award ?

For those wanting to let out out to a greater extent than close artists who have got won this accolade inwards the past, my data site Portraiture - Resources for Artists at 1 time includes a module which provides a consummate listing of all the BP Portrait Award winners - as well as so as well as now.

This department of the website lists:
  • links to the paradigm which won the get-go prize inwards the BP Portrait Awards (if available - for some argue the NPG website seems to failed to archive some of the exhibitions as well as winners) and 
  • the winning artist's electrical flow website (if available).You tin likewise let out out to a greater extent than close yesteryear competitions inwards my posts from previous years detailed below 
More close the BP Portrait Award 2012

These are my posts close the 2011 BP Portrait Award
Bookmark this weblog if you lot desire to run across futurity weblog posts close the BP Portrait Award

In the future I volition publish:
  • a reminder close the deadline for entries 
  • the listing of artists selected for the exhibition 
  • the listing of shortlisted artists 
  • the awards ceremony 
  • a video of the exhibition 
These are all posts for before exhibitions on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark. You tin let out links to all posts on Portraiture - Resources for Artists

BP Portrait Award 2011
BP Portrait Award 2010
BP Portrait Award 2009

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