Brand New!! Chrys Allen Wins First Derwent Fine Art Prize For Pencil Art
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| Winner of the £5,000 Derwent Art Prize for Pencil Art Chrys Allen for her pencil artwork Walk inward Progress: Koli graphite |
The Private View as well as Prizegiving was real good attended. It was real expert to come across a lot of immature faces amid the artists who attended final night. Nobody knew who had won as well as so nosotros had a few gasps equally the announcements were made!
This postal service also covers a review of the exhibition inward the North Gallery at the Mall Galleries.
Derwent Art Prize 2013 - The Selector's Award - Prizewinners
Three plant were chosen past times the selectors to win valuable cash prizes. The selectors were:
- Yvonne Crossley (Director of The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire);
- Fisun Güner (journalist as well as freelance visual arts writer); and
- Professor Stephen Farthing RA (artist and Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts, London).
“It's been an interesting procedure helping to select around xc plant from an international entry of nearly 3600 pieces. The resulting exhibition is made upwards of what nosotros considered to hold out the best plant submitted past times both professional person as well as amateur artists. The exhibit demonstrates a flourishing involvement inward drawing from a broad attain of starting points. I facial expression forrad to this opened upwards contest going from strength to strength inward time to come years.”Yvonne CrossleyI sympathise that the judges were able to guess plant based on larger images than those seen online past times people voting for the People's Choice award
In his preamble to the presentation final night, Professsor Stephen Farthing made some cardinal points:
- all the judging was done digitally. It's the means most fine art competitions are moving given that it saves an extraordinary amount of expense for both the contest organisers as well as the entrants.
- all the travel inward the gallery looked the means it did on the estimator screen. Judges were delighted to come across in that location was no mismatch betwixt what they idea they had selected as well as the artwork inward the exhibition
- all artwork was anonymous inward the judging process. As Professor Farthing revealed, when you're having to facial expression through 3,000+ entries it's real hard to larn interested inward a name! It's only non relevant to the procedure of selection.
- each guess had a "judge's choice". While in that location was real footling disagreement most what was OK as well as what should hold out selected it was also of import that each Judge was able to exercise a footling "eccentricity" - as well as thence each had 1 travel which was their alternative alone.
"I intend it's a fantastic exhibition of drawings"Professor Stephen Farthing
- entrants should hand on to submit drawings to fine art competitions. He felt that the calibre of some of the drawings submitted to the contest exceeded those he sees submitted to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition! He had a real positive feeling most the character of a lot of the travel exhibited.
The Derwent Art Prize 2013 prizewinners are equally follows. You tin sack come across the shortlist that the selectors drew upwards on the abode page of the website.
First Prize (£5,000) - Walk inward Progress: Koli past times Chrys Allen
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| Chrys Allen accepting get-go prize with Professor Stephen Farthing. She gave a real inspiring speech! |
One must also non hold out distracted past times thoughts of the stamina involved inward completing travel of this length equally it's a real fine slice of art. Interestingly using a scroll for artwork recording a walk is returning to a real traditional means inward which a trail used to hold out recorded past times topographical artists inward times past. (I call upwards real vividly seeing 1 at the RA inward 2007 - come across BritArt inward History - RA exhibits admirable collections of British drawings)
This travel was on my personal shortlist and I am real much of the sentiment that it's a real worthy winner. I did wonder whether it mightiness receive got won when I saw how the artwork was set out inward the gallery on Monday. I'm also real pleased to come across pencil fine art beingness created inward ways which mightiness seem odd to many pencil artists who aspire to ameliorate things. In my final postal service I commented most this work
Both plant role an odd means of presenting drawings which is non unfamiliar to those who view exhibitions for Drawing Prizes. Food for idea for those fine art societies who set on exhibitions inward pencil media!You tin sack see a video of the travel on YouTube (9 minutes 10 seconds) - it takes yous along the "walk inward progress" amongst Finnish Landscape equally evidenced past times the drawing inward pencil. It was done patch Chrys was Artist inward Residence inward Koli, North Karelia. Finland.
[Note: Walk inward Progress : Towpath is a afterward 1 which the 1 I wrongly identified equally the winning travel until corrected past times Chrys! Also worth watching.]
Personally, I would receive got liked to come across the artwork displayed with the video. The Drawing Bursary awarded past times NEAC has for certain had video displays of an artwork inward exhibitions at the Mall Gallery earlier now. While apparently the pencil artwork needed to hold out given prominence, it would receive got been corking to come across the video inward the gallery equally well. Maybe on an iPad on the wall? This mode of display is oft used similar a shot inward other galleries to display multiple images. The inquiry is whether the creative individual or the gallery provide the iPad!
Chrys Allen is a practising professional person creative individual as well as fine art tutor. She lives as well as plant in South East London. Instead of a garden, Chrys has a converted Victorian jam factory/warehouse which is used equally her studio as well as also equally an exhibition infinite as well as venue for performances as well as workshops during local arts festivals. Chrys also plant equally a visiting tutor as well as workshop leader.
Her enjoyment of as well as enthusiasm for drawing was real evident inward her real lucid as well as inspiring spoken language which she gave final nighttime on beingness presented with her get-go prize. I tin sack only surmise that those who receive got Chrys equally their tutor are real lucky students!
Second Prize (£2,500) - London, 2012 by Paul Hiles
This pencil drawing is a large scale view of London from an aerial perspective with ruby-red double deckers punctuating the streets. |
| Derwent Art Prize for Pencil Art - Second Prize London 2012 past times Paul Hiles (large travel inward the centre of wall on left) Graphite |
I'm afraid I didn't spot this equally a potential winner as well as I intend that's real in all likelihood because for me all aerial drawings similar a shot receive got to struggle real hard to avoid beingness set inward the shade by Homage to Anonymous by Gary Lawrence which real deservedly won the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011
Third Prize (£500) Landscapes & Places - past times Yi Lin Juliana Ong (JULS - Oh overnice great)
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| Derwent Art Prize for Pencil Art - Third Prize Landscape as well as Places - a serial of drawings by Yi Lin Juliana Ong graphite |
Juls graduated with an MA inward Communication Art & Design from the Royal College of Art inward 2011. Her plant evolve about the automatic procedure of markings.
The human activeness inward the menstruum past times improvisation plays a real of import business office inward my practise equally they drive me to seek for the beauty inward an “awe of decipherment”.
Landscapes & Places is a serial made with pencil markings past times automatic repetitive strokes. They were non drawn inward a means of its presentation; of which its renderings made non known of its actual outcome. They are peradventure maps— of the unfamiliar places as well as labyrinths of a subconscious mind...
UKCPS Award for Excellence (£250) - Mirror by Suhyang Seo
The winner of this prize for a travel inward coloured pencils was chosen past times the representatives of the United Kingdom Coloured Pencil Society. I'd personally similar to come across to a greater extent than such travel which has an emphasis on the fine art get-go as well as the media 2d inward the UKCPS exhibition. |
| Derwent Art Prize for Pencil Art - UKCPS Award for Excellence Mirror by Suhyang Seo coloured pencils |
The People's Choice Award
This prize was determined past times online votes based on the digital images on the Derwent Art Prize website. Voting finished at the terminate of August.
Last nighttime the winner of the People's Choice Award was announced. Today, Derwent receive got also announced on the website which plant took 2d as well as 3rd prizes.
People's Choice Award (£500) - The Majestic Savoy past times Janie Pirie
I rather suspect that this drawing had a strong next amid members of the UKCPS because it was 1 of the few coloured pencil artworks inward the exhibition as well as because it has previously won a UKCPS award. It's for certain real impressive!
Janie Pirie is a leading fellow member of the marked tendency towards botanical artists working inward coloured pencils. She is an RHS Gold Medal winning Botanical Artist as well as Botanical fine art inward coloured pencils). She was awarded her get-go medal past times the Royal Horticultural Society inward June 2008. In 2009 she went on to win an RHS gilded medal at BBC Gardener’s World Live as well as was also presented with a crystal vase for ‘Best Botanical Artist inward Show 2009’. She has also been invited to exhibit at the real prestigious Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation inward the USA.
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| Derwent Art Prize for Pencil Art - People's Choice Award The Majestic Savoy past times Janie Pirie coloured pencils |
- Five Coots (Coloured Pencils) past times Alan Woollett. This is his Facebook Page
- Blessed Is The Gift Of Laughter (graphite) past times Hazel Bowman
The Derwent Art Prize Exhibition
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| Gallery view of business office of the exhibition - with the winner of the First Prize inward the foreground |
- Review: Still Alive - Contemporary Still Life Painting
- Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2013 Exhibition at the Mall Galleries)
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| Nab Edge (Watersoluble) past times Tina Mammoser |
The exhibition is inward the North Gallery where it looks real impressive. The real neutral frames of the plant hung (black, white or acre wood) as well as the lack of coloured mats stand upwards for a meaning contribution to the coherent facial expression of this curated exhibition.
I've never been a fan of the narrow dark frame equally it looks likewise harsh to me for pencil work. I was real impressed past times the graphite coloured frame of the travel selected past times my friend Tina Mammoser. It was amazing how having a softer border allowed the artwork to hand to a greater extent than visible. It's a color pencil artists should facial expression out for!
It's real apparent that the size boundary got chucked out the window. 182 cm was supposed to hold out the maximum size - nonetheless that translates to us non-metric people equally exactly nether half dozen human foot as well as at to the lowest degree 1 exceeded that inward height. The winner's travel is genuinely 10 metres long but tin sack hold out displayed inside the size boundary - although that doesn't exhibit the travel to its best payoff (the cinema does that).
There was real footling coloured travel inward the exhibition which was something of a surprise when the selection was announced. However I didn't immature adult woman the color equally much equally I expected to - which was surprising. I intend that's because of the means that the oculus was interested past times the mark-making instead. I intend if to a greater extent than artists working inward color desire to larn into the exhibition they volition require to uncovering that skills inward copying photographs don't count for much inward this exhibition. Interpreting is a dissimilar matter.
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| There was real footling coloured travel inward the exhibition This view includes 3 such plant - as well as of class coloured pencil tin sack also hold out black! top left: Albany Sunset Oranges (pastel pencils) past times Beverley Coleclough top right: Five Coots (coloured pencils) past times Alan Woollett Bottom left: Torch Parade (Charcoal) past times Ann Marie Whalley |
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| AJ (Pastel) by Jill Preston |
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| Bambina (graphite) by Marta Ravasi |
Overall I intend Derwent has a lot to hold out proud of with this novel exhibition. It
- succeeds inward showing us all what tin sack hold out done with a attain of pencils;
- reinforces the pencil equally a serious fine art medium;
- emphasises that drawing does non require to hold out restricted to a specific size or placed inward a matted frame and
- amply demonstrates that there's a lot of real talented artists working with pencils.
Everybody prospective entrant needs to heighten their game if they desire to hand far side past times side year. This exhibition has been such a success that I predict tearing contest side past times side year! I definitely intend that those working inward dry out media/pencils should leave of absence their calendars similar a shot as well as start planning their travel for side past times side year.
Links to previous posts most the Derwent Art Prize on this blog:
- MAKING H5N1 MARK: Derwent Art Prize 2013 - Selected Works & Artists 23 Jul 2013 Annotated listing of artworks as well as artists selected for the get-go yr of The Derwent Art Prize (2013). Includes links to artists' websites.
- MAKING H5N1 MARK: The Derwent Art Prize - a discussion 20 Jul 2013
- MAKING H5N1 MARK: NEW! The Derwent Art Prize - for pencil art 05 November 2012
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