Brand New!! Bp Portrait Laurels 2014 - Telephone Phone For Entries

The Call for Entries for the £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2014 has been published - so it's fourth dimension to write my rattling pop annual review of the entry process.

People who win prizes read this weblog post! ;)

This post covers

what's unlike this twelvemonth - because I've spotted a few changes!
why this is a contest worth entering
how to teach selected
a review of the entry details for those who don't similar little white impress on a dark background!
links to past times posts close the BP Portrait Award too exhibition reviews on this blog

BP Portrait Award 2014 website
featuring Self-portrait by Ewan McClure, 2013

NOTE: All quotations are from the BP Portrait Award website.

What's unlike inwards 2014

Paintings volition move judged anonymously so should non move signed on the front.

Selection has e'er been anonymous. However I recall this 'no signature on the front' is a novel requirement too it if it is too then it's significant. I have got heard artists transcend comment inwards the past close the fact that entries included the artists signature - too asking questions close how the contest could move realistically move considered to move anonymous. Maybe this is the response.
The Third Prize has been reinstated too the prize coin has increased from £53,000 to £61,000 - come across below for how this is divided up
The deadline to render the completed entry shape online too pay the fees is Monday 3 Feb 2014. That's 10 days before than final year, so those who've entered before demand to brand they've got their 2014 calendars marked upwardly alongside the date. There's likewise a reminder that you lot demand to shipping past times recorded delivery of you lot desire proof of delivery.
The rules straight off highlight that Self portraits too grouping portraits are permitted. Perhaps at that topographic point has been confusion on this point? I for sure mentioned final twelvemonth to the NPG that I idea it was a rattling keen compassion that at that topographic point was no abide by for Group Portraits equally it's hard to clit off a skilful i too this actually ought to move recognised.

Why come inwards the BP Portrait Award?

Here are 10 reasons to come inwards this competition

It's one of the most prestigious fine art prizes inwards the world.
All the prizes are worth winning. You've got 5 chances to win a pregnant amount of money! Broadly speaking that way 10% of those selected are going to win a large cheque!
It's opened upwardly to international artists. This fine art contest attracts entries from all over the world. 1,969 artists from 77 unlike countries entered the BP Portrait Award 2013.
It likewise regularly has prizewinners from all over the world!
Just beingness selected for the BP enhances an artists career - afterwards all only 55 portrait artists (2.8% of the entry) had their paintings selected too hung inwards the BP Portrait Prize Exhibition 2013 .
A HUGE issue of people come upwardly to come across this exhibition. This is a major fine art prize inwards a major fine art gallery correct inwards the centre of London. Last summer, some 285,000 came to come across the BP Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery - too that's before it toured closed to the UK! This Prize is i of the principal reasons why the National Portrait Gallery inwards London is inwards the top twenty fine art galleries too museums inwards the world ( #18 inwards the top fine art galleries inwards the globe inwards 2012)
The Public teach to 2nd justice the judges. There's likewise a People's Choice Award which goes to the portrait which received the most votes from those who visited the exhibition.
If selected and/or shortlisted you may teach a committee from the National Portrait Gallery at some dot inwards the future. You don't have got to win First Prize to bring together the listing of artists who have commissions from the National Portrait Gallery. Artists who have got been regularly selected and/or shortlisted inwards the past times have got gone on to hit portraits for the Gallery.
This prize has typically had a rattling positive touching on the careers of artists who win the top prize. This is "a game changer"!
Even if you lot don't teach shortlisted, you lot may discovery that your icon gets massive exposure if chosen to marketplace the exhibition. In the summer of 2014, it may move seen hanging on a banner exterior the entrance to the gallery or on adverts on the Underground too all circular London.

BP Portrait Award 2012 - third Prize : Richie Culver past times Alan Coulson
Oil on wooden board 850 x 950 mm
Alan Coulson (left) alongside Richie Culver (right)
Alan's portrait of Alan likewise hung on the large banner exterior the National Portrait Gallery
and was seen on lots of flyers all over London

Recent National Portrait Gallery commissions past times BP Portrait Award first-prize-winning artists include:

Julia Donaldson past times Peter Monkman (BP Portrait Award 2009 winner),

Dame Kelly Holmes past times Craig Wylie (BP Portrait Award 2008 winner),

novelist V due south Naipaul past times Paul Emsley (BP Portrait Award 2007 winner), and

Kids Company founder Dame Camila Batmanghelidjh past times Dean Marsh (BP Portrait Award 2005 winner).

Many artists who have got had their move exhibited have got gained commissions equally a upshot of the considerable involvement inwards the BP Portrait Award too the resulting exhibition.

If you lot are serious close portraiture and/or desire to progress equally a portrait creative mortal I definitely recommend you lot enter. However, delight exercise recognise that the contest is trigger-happy too at to the lowest degree 97% of the people who come inwards volition move disappointed non to teach selected.

Can I advise that if you lot exercise enter, that you lot brand the most of it! Make sure that you lot lick your website into shape too to a greater extent than ofttimes than non smarten upwardly your presentation of yourself too your artwork to the globe before the selected artists are announced too everybody starts looking at your website! It grieves me every twelvemonth that artists recall that they stand upwardly too autumn past times their fine art alone. It's vital - but it's non the whole story!

Prizes

BP Portrait Award 2014: The contest is opened upwardly to all artists living anywhere inwards the globe who are aged eighteen too over on 1st Jan 2013. This is inwards recognition of the outstanding too innovative move currently beingness produced past times artists of all ages working inwards portraiture.

First Prize: £30,000, plus, at the judges’ discretion, a commission worth £5,000, to move agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist.
Second Prize: £10,000
Third Prize: £8,000

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

BP Young Artist Award: £7,000 All selected artists aged betwixt eighteen too thirty volition automatically move considered for both the BP Young Artist Award too the BP Portrait Award, but an private cannot win both.

If at that topographic point are no exhibitors aged thirty or nether too then no Young Artist Award volition move given too the funds so available shall move used to offering a Fourth Prize.

BP Travel Award

All 2014 exhibitors volition move eligible to submit a proposal for the BP Travel Award. The aim of the Award is to supply the chance for an creative mortal to sense working inwards a unlike environment, inwards Britain or abroad, on a projection related to portraiture which volition too then move shown equally business office of the BP Portrait Award 2015 exhibition too tour inwards 2015–16.

BP Travel Award 2014: £6,000

How to teach Selected

To teach selected you lot demand to hit skilful artwork too teach noticed. So how does that happen?

In 2012 I wrote a post, containing my ain observations close what it takes to teach selected - come across Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1) too 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 past times the National Portrait Gallery too caput too torso, spell others are total figure. Relatively few are the caput alone.

You have got to move actually fantabulous to move selected too win a prize the starting fourth dimension time you lot come inwards - but it is possible! You tin sack fifty-fifty win starting fourth dimension prize equally American creative mortal too recent graduate Aleah Chapin discovered!

Paintings volition move judged anonymously so should non move signed on the front.
Artists should move aware that all plant are judged on an equal too anonymous footing too that at that topographic point is no segregated judging past times portion or country.

This year’s judging panel are:

Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery
Dr Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath
Joanna Trollope, Author
Des Violaris, Director, United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland Arts too Culture, BP
Jonathan Yeo, Artist

Exhibition

The BP Portrait Award 2014 Exhibition opens to Earth at the National Portrait Gallery on Th 26 June too runs until Dominicus 21 September 2014.

There is an Awards Ceremony on the even out of Tuesday 24 June 2014 for those shortlisted for prizes - which is when I teach to photograph you lot if you've been shortlisted. Then adjacent forenoon I teach to interview you!

The exhibition volition too then tour to 2 other venues inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inwards 2014-15

the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

How to come inwards the BP Portrait award

Full contest rules, collection/delivery points too details of the exhibition tour tin sack move flora online at www.npg.org.uk/bp. However these are non so slow to read inwards the 'white on black' format used past times the NPG so I've broken upwardly the principal points too reiterated them below.

Who tin sack enter

Do brand sure you lot report the entry requirements. In brief:

the contest is opened upwardly to all those aged over eighteen on 1 Jan 2013.
employees of the National Portrait Gallery, BP, too their agents, too previous starting fourth dimension prize-winners of the Portrait Award since 1980 are NOT eligible to enter

Bottom line, you lot tin sack come inwards if: you lot are over 18, alive anywhere inwards the world, tin sack pigment a portrait of a human figure of yourself or a mortal or persons you lot have got met too taste portraiture!

This international contest is opened upwardly to everyone aged eighteen too over inwards recognition of the outstanding too innovative move currently beingness produced past times artists of all ages working inwards portraiture. The contest is judged, on an equal too anonymous basis, from master copy paintings. An exhibition is too then created from a choice of the entries.

How to Enter

Entry is online too the closing appointment is Monday 3 Feb 2014. You tin sack discovery out who tin sack come inwards too how to come inwards below.

Entry forms too fees: You'll only discovery out where too when to submit your move if you lot consummate the registration too shipping the entry fee.

Complete the online entry shape here
request a postal entry form 020 7312 6699 or write to the NPG
Or download a postal entry shape from the website (PDF) from the National Portrait Gallery
Pay the entry fee of £38

You volition discovery out whether or non your move has been selected for exhibition past times Midweek 26 March 2014

All correspondence alongside artists volition move via e-mail - too it's upwardly to you lot to cheque your email!

The Rules

The worst error anybody tin sack brand when entering fine art competitions is to create a move for a contest too and then realise that it isn't eligible or you lot can't introduce it inwards the correct way at the correct time!

Which is why you lot demand to read The 2014 Rules three times now!

There's a lot of them, they're white on dark (never slow to read) inwards rattling tiny impress alongside no spacing - alongside fifty-fifty smaller impress too 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 teach inwards easier for yourself follow what I have got to do.

block the rules
copy too glue to a word-processing software
convert the text to dark too the background to white too take away all formatting
that should choose the text into a normal font size at normal spacing which is much easier to read

Below is my assay at making the rules rather to a greater extent than accessible. I review too revise it each year. I've split the rules upwardly into sections relating to

you - the creative mortal submitting the work
the portrait you lot are submitting

Note inwards especial that plant tin sack move disqualified - fifty-fifty if selected for exhibition - if they have got non adhered to the rules!

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

The rules close YOUR PORTRAIT

Pay especial attending to these. I've detected more careful scrutiny too a tightening of the application of the rules inwards recent years. Some are beingness spelt out to a greater extent than clearly - too presumably i must assume they have got been ignored inwards the past!

Each creative mortal is limited ONE ENTRY PER ARTIST.

The move entered

SHOULD move a icon based on a sitting or report from life AND the human figure MUST predominate. You demand to dot on the shape whether or non you lot have got met the sitter.
can move a self portrait
can move a grouping portraits
MUST be available for the entire menstruation of the exhibition too the tour to 2 other venues.
the portrait must move recent i.e. it MUST have got been completed afterwards 1 January 2013

you are asked to confirm the start date. This needs to pre-date the completion date (latter was novel inwards 2012. I recall this is an expanse where entries have got been caught out inwards the past)
must NOT move a move previously submitted for consideration.

should NOT move signed on the front. All entries should move anonymous. (If I'm correct too this is a novel requirement, I bet this volition choose handle of quite a few people out this year)

Media too Size:

MUST move predominantly painted inwards oil, tempera or acrylic (No watercolours, plant on newspaper or pastels volition move considered )

MUST move on a stretcher or board, preferably framed too unglazed.
MUST move bigger than 25 x 20cm (10” x 8”) unframed. Smaller plant volition non move considered.
MUST move smaller than 244 x 244cm (96" x 96") framed (including the frame). Multi-part portraits - upwardly to 3 parts - are considered equally i work, must comply alongside the size constraints too likewise require clear instructions equally to installation.

The rules - submission summary

Entry forms too registration fees must move submitted to the NPG past times Mon 3 Feb 2014.
All entrants volition move notified if their move is selected (or not) for exhibition past times Midweek 26 March 2014
There are lots of rattling detailed requirements equally to submission too collection of the actual icon - I've summarised some of these below but at that topographic point is to a greater extent than too my advice is to read it all rattling carefully!
All artists are responsible for the insurance of their works. In other words submit at your ain risk.
International artists should likewise pay especial attending to their fiscal liabilities (eg import duties etc) too what they are required to do.
The Gallery is non responsible for wrapping plant or providing wrapping materials to render plant - (unless agreed too a fee paid - but this applies to international entrants only)
All correspondence alongside artists volition move via email!
The creative mortal is responsible for checking their e-mail to come across whether your artwork has been selected or rejected.
The National Portrait Gallery volition non conform courier collections or post plant on behalf of the artist.
There are detailed atmospheric condition relating to copyright too publication which all entrants should read.

Delivery Dates

Paintings delivered to the National Portrait Gallery volition NOT move accepted. The Gallery uses a collection dot which is NOT the gallery. Regional Collection Points:

The NPG stopped organising regional collection points inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inwards 2013.

Delivery Dates - Hand delivery inwards mortal to London Collection Point

Paintings demand to move delivered to a key collection on the specific dates listed on the website - at the fourth dimension specified. H5N1 Gallery representative volition supply a receipt on delivery of the work.

Dates for deliveries are:

For plant arriving past times post or courier:

Monday 3 March – Th thirteen March 2014, 09.00–17.00 (excluding weekends)
you demand to shipping past times recorded delivery of you lot desire proof of delivery.
Deliveries past times post volition move accepted inwards suitable packaging BUT this volition non move retained for render of the work

For plant delivered inwards person:

Monday 10 too Tuesday xi March, 09.00–17.00
Wednesday 12 March and Thursday thirteen March, 09.00–20.00
No entries volition move accepted at the London collection dot afterwards 20.00 on Th thirteen March 2014.

Interestingly the Gallery are making a rattling clear distinction betwixt unlike entrants equally to what happens re the packaging for entries

UK entrants - plant that are hand-delivered MUST move gratuitous of packaging / packing for plant delivered past times post or courier volition NOT move retained
International Entrants - tin sack move delivered past times courier / packaging volition move retained too reused / accuse volition move made if packaging cannot move reused

Return of move non selected: All unselected plant must move collected from the address to which they were originally delivered on the dates listed inwards the rules, during the times specified. Works cannot move returned to a unlike collection point. Works non collected from the collection points past times the dates specified volition move charged for at the carrier's commons storage rates. Note also

The National Portrait Gallery reserves the correct to dispose of or destroy whatever move non collected afterwards i calendar month of the latest appointment for collection of unexhibited plant or exhibited works.

Damage too Artist's Insurance

Read this i carefully. Basically it way fifty-fifty if somebody other than the creative mortal damages the entry too then they are NOT liable to you lot for whatever loss or damage. If it's a portrait of value to you, you lot must conform insurance at your ain cost.

The responsibleness for harm or loss, withal caused, is the responsibleness of the artist. Artists are thence advised to conform adequate insurance embrace against such risks. The sponsor, the carriers, the collection point, the touring venues, whatever other subcontractor or the National Portrait Gallery shall non move liable for whatever loss or damage, whether or non caused past times their negligence.

Want to know to a greater extent than close the BP Portrait Award ?

For those wanting to discovery out to a greater extent than close artists who have got won this abide by inwards the past, my data site Portraiture - Resources for Artists straight off includes a module which provides a consummate listing of all the BP Portrait Award winners - too then too now. This department of the website lists:

links to the epitome which won the starting fourth dimension prize inwards the BP Portrait Awards (if available - for some argue the NPG website seems to failed to archive some of the exhibitions too winners) and
the winning artist's electrical flow website (if available).You tin sack likewise discovery out to a greater extent than close past times 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

BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries The contest is opened upwardly to all artists living anywhere inwards the globe who are aged eighteen too over on 1st Jan 2013.
BP Portrait Award 2013 - Selected Artists too Statistics - list of selected portraits / exhibiting artists for the 2012 Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
BP Portrait Award 2013 - The Shortlist - identifies those shortlisted. See if you lot tin sack justice which move won before reading my review post.
Susanne de Toit wins £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2013 - BP Portrait Award 2012 Prizewinners
BP Portrait Exhibition 2013 - Video & Review - H5N1 Makingamark Video of a walk closed to the BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2013 at the National Portrait Gallery
Sophie Ploeg wins BP Travel Award 2013 - data for those interested inwards the Travel Award
Carl Randall's Nippon - the best BP Travel Award Exhibition ever!

Bookmark this weblog if you lot desire to come across time to come 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 H5N1 Mark. You tin sack discovery links to all posts on Portraiture - Resources for Artists

BP Portrait Award 2012