Brand New!! Carl Randall's Japan - The Best Bp Go Accolade Exhibition Ever!
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Last calendar week I enjoyed the best BP Travel Award Exhibition I've e'er seen at the National Portrait Gallery.
To my hear Carl Randall, who won the abide by inwards 2012, has but raised the bar inwards relation to the character of Travel Award Exhibition. I'm rather inclined to intend the National Portrait Gallery handgrip with me because they've brought it all the agency to the front end of the Gallery together with made it a really prominent display.
'In The Footsteps of Hiroshige: The Tokaido Highway together with Portraits of Modern Japan' is on display at the National Portrait Gallert until September 15, 2013 together with volition together with then tour to Aberdeen together with Wolverhampton until June 2014.
Carl’s proposal for the abide by was to move inwards the footsteps of the Japanese woodblock impress creative mortal Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), who inwards 1832 traveled along the Tokaido Highway - an one-time trading route that ran from Tokyo to Kyoto, producing a serial of woodblock prints showing the people he met together with the landscapes he experienced along the path. (see images of these in The 53 Stations of the Tokkaido Road)
Carl's thought was that he should create contemporary equivalents, documenting the people together with places of modern Japan, 180 years later Hiroshige made the same journey.
I met Carl end twelvemonth together with was really taken with his proposal for his projection every bit I was already very familiar with Hiroshige's operate together with liked it a lot - see Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012. This shipping service explains a lot nigh the exceptional behind the projection together with likewise a lot nigh Carl himself.
So what did he do?
The exhibition comprises i large operate inwards pencil together with pen together with ink on newspaper together with and then a serial of small-scale crude paintings on canvas.
Carl explained to me that he intentionally did non reference Hiroshige's operate - otherwise he'd own got felt every bit if he was but beingness doing a pastiche of the dandy ukiyo-e master copy rather than creating alone novel operate which stemmed from the concept rather than the actual images.
Carl is likewise doing rather good with the balance of his art. He's currently got a monochrome paradigm inwards the electrical current BP Portrait Award 2013 Exhibition next his success inwards 2012.
AND he likewise has roughly other of his monochrome paintings inwards the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy (see below right).
Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits (below) is a documentary cinema made of him at operate on his paintings inwards Japan. The 'Tokyo Portraits' department shows the creative mortal inwards the upper-case alphabetic character urban nub - sketching inwards a ramen shop, on urban nub trains, at Shibuya crossings, together with at the artists' studio. The 'Hiroshima Portraits' department shows an before projection which involved painting painting of the portraits of 'Hibakusha' (survivors of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima City).
I likewise did a video interview with him which I shall go uploading shortly.
The catalogue for the master copy exhibition - The BP Portrait Award 2013 - likewise includes a characteristic on his travels inwards Nippon together with the resulting serial of portraits that he painted for the exhibition.
'Artists & Illustrators' Magazine (July issue) volition likewise characteristic an article on his demo at The National Portrait Gallery.
Carl has likewise had a mass published - ‘Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits’ - which acts as a 120-page amount color hardback catalogue of artwork made inwards Japan. It's likewise available to purchase at The National Portrait Gallery shop.
I bought a copy. I own got a really rigid hunch that Carl is going to larn a really successful creative mortal if he continues with his topic of paradigm portraits of people inwards Japan. I tin for certain consider him continuing with this topic of recording the contemporary life together with lives of people inwards dissimilar places through paradigm their portraits inside a modern context.
Definitely i to watch!
Carl Randall (b. 1975, UK) is a graduate of
He has won several prizes, including sec prize twice inwards The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (1996/97), 1st prize inwards the 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (a national paradigm competition), The 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo, Nippon (awarded yesteryear Tokyo University of Fine Arts); together with The 2012 BP Travel Award (The National Portrait Gallery, London). Scholarships include The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation together with MEXT Scholarships to written report inwards Japan.
He has exhibited together with sold with diverse galleries internationally – The Royal Academy of Arts, The Jerwood Gallery, The Mall Galleries, The National Portrait Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Tokyo Art Award, Japan; Art Taipei, Taiwan. Artist inwards Residencies include ‘Hiroshima Art Document’, Hiroshima City (to encounter together with pigment portraits of survivors of the atomic bomb); together with ‘ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1’, Fuji Speedway (to document the Formula 1 races inwards Japan).
See my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker
See my previous posts on this blog
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| BP Travel Award Exhibition Carl Randall with part of his serial of paintings of the people of Japan © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
To my hear Carl Randall, who won the abide by inwards 2012, has but raised the bar inwards relation to the character of Travel Award Exhibition. I'm rather inclined to intend the National Portrait Gallery handgrip with me because they've brought it all the agency to the front end of the Gallery together with made it a really prominent display.
'In The Footsteps of Hiroshige: The Tokaido Highway together with Portraits of Modern Japan' is on display at the National Portrait Gallert until September 15, 2013 together with volition together with then tour to Aberdeen together with Wolverhampton until June 2014.
Carl’s proposal for the abide by was to move inwards the footsteps of the Japanese woodblock impress creative mortal Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), who inwards 1832 traveled along the Tokaido Highway - an one-time trading route that ran from Tokyo to Kyoto, producing a serial of woodblock prints showing the people he met together with the landscapes he experienced along the path. (see images of these in The 53 Stations of the Tokkaido Road)
Carl's thought was that he should create contemporary equivalents, documenting the people together with places of modern Japan, 180 years later Hiroshige made the same journey.
I met Carl end twelvemonth together with was really taken with his proposal for his projection every bit I was already very familiar with Hiroshige's operate together with liked it a lot - see Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012. This shipping service explains a lot nigh the exceptional behind the projection together with likewise a lot nigh Carl himself.
So what did he do?
- He left London the day after the awards presentation end year and travelled to Japan
- He together with then travelled along the modern equivalent of the Tokkaido Highway which takes inwards both marine together with inland landscapes betwixt Tokyo together with Kyoto. (This is a link to the Wikipedia describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship of the historical balance stations inwards 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō)
- He's created a serial of portraits of the people of Nippon which demonstrate a cross-section of one-time together with novel Japanese society.
I own got visited a cross-section of professions from one-time together with novel Japanese lodge - from salary men inwards part blocks, to farmers inwards rice fields; employees of state highway restaurants, service stations together with roadside hotels.
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| Eight of the serial of 14 paintings yesteryear Carl Randall Top row (L to R) The Rice Farmer's Daughters, Sumo, Tetrapods, Zen Garden, Kyoto Bottom Row (L to R) Aka-Fuji, Rainy Season, Hakone, Kyoto © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
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| The faces with the trees but seem to go faces - until you lot hold back to a greater extent than closely - together with realise that roughly are using their mobile phone |
- The places depicted en route likewise reverberate a diverseness of modern together with traditional Japanese icons depicted - from dearest hotels, sushi restaurants together with bullet trains; to Mount Fuji, Zen Gardens together with Kabuki.
- Interestingly i of the unifying themes is the mobile vociferation upwards which is omnipresent inwards the paintings. The role of this every bit a constant motif grounds each of the portraits really much inwards the introduce together with prevents them from becoming seen every bit a re-create of Hiroshige's work
The exhibition comprises i large operate inwards pencil together with pen together with ink on newspaper together with and then a serial of small-scale crude paintings on canvas.
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| Six of the serial of 14 paintings yesteryear Carl Randall Top row (L to R) Bottom Row (L to R) © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
Carl explained to me that he intentionally did non reference Hiroshige's operate - otherwise he'd own got felt every bit if he was but beingness doing a pastiche of the dandy ukiyo-e master copy rather than creating alone novel operate which stemmed from the concept rather than the actual images.
Carl is likewise doing rather good with the balance of his art. He's currently got a monochrome paradigm inwards the electrical current BP Portrait Award 2013 Exhibition next his success inwards 2012.
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| Shinjuku, Tokyo by Carl Randall 1060 x 2330 Oil canvas © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits (below) is a documentary cinema made of him at operate on his paintings inwards Japan. The 'Tokyo Portraits' department shows the creative mortal inwards the upper-case alphabetic character urban nub - sketching inwards a ramen shop, on urban nub trains, at Shibuya crossings, together with at the artists' studio. The 'Hiroshima Portraits' department shows an before projection which involved painting painting of the portraits of 'Hibakusha' (survivors of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima City).
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| Tokyo Subway (£22,000) yesteryear Carl Randall currently beingness exhibited (top) at the RA's Summer Exhibition Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
The catalogue for the master copy exhibition - The BP Portrait Award 2013 - likewise includes a characteristic on his travels inwards Nippon together with the resulting serial of portraits that he painted for the exhibition.
'Artists & Illustrators' Magazine (July issue) volition likewise characteristic an article on his demo at The National Portrait Gallery.
Carl has likewise had a mass published - ‘Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits’ - which acts as a 120-page amount color hardback catalogue of artwork made inwards Japan. It's likewise available to purchase at The National Portrait Gallery shop.
I bought a copy. I own got a really rigid hunch that Carl is going to larn a really successful creative mortal if he continues with his topic of paradigm portraits of people inwards Japan. I tin for certain consider him continuing with this topic of recording the contemporary life together with lives of people inwards dissimilar places through paradigm their portraits inside a modern context.
Definitely i to watch!
About Carl Randall
Carl Randall (b. 1975, UK) is a graduate of
- The Slade of Fine Art, London (BA, Painting),
- The Princes Drawing School, London (Drawing Year), and
- Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Nippon (MA & Doctorate, Fine Art).
He has won several prizes, including sec prize twice inwards The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (1996/97), 1st prize inwards the 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (a national paradigm competition), The 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo, Nippon (awarded yesteryear Tokyo University of Fine Arts); together with The 2012 BP Travel Award (The National Portrait Gallery, London). Scholarships include The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation together with MEXT Scholarships to written report inwards Japan.
He has exhibited together with sold with diverse galleries internationally – The Royal Academy of Arts, The Jerwood Gallery, The Mall Galleries, The National Portrait Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Tokyo Art Award, Japan; Art Taipei, Taiwan. Artist inwards Residencies include ‘Hiroshima Art Document’, Hiroshima City (to encounter together with pigment portraits of survivors of the atomic bomb); together with ‘ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1’, Fuji Speedway (to document the Formula 1 races inwards Japan).
Where you lot tin consider together with hear nigh Carl Randall's art
- Website: http://www.carlrandall.com/
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/carlrandallpainter
- Twitter page: https://twitter.com/CarlRandallArt
For to a greater extent than nigh Hiroshige
See my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker
For to a greater extent than nigh yesteryear years of the BP Travel Award
See my previous posts on this blog
- 2012 - Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012
- 2011 - BP Travel Award 2011: Jo Fraser travels to Peru
- 2010 - BP Travel Awards: 2010 (Paul Beel) together with 2011 (Jo Fraser)
- 2009 - BP Travel Award - 2009 together with 2010
- 2008 - Exhibition Review: BP Travel Award 2008 - Emmanouil Bitsakis
- 2007 - BP Travel Award: Gareth Reid together with the Finnish wintertime bathers
- 2006 - View the BP Portrait Award 2007 together with BP Travel Award 2006 exhibitions
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