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Brand New!! Derwent Fine Art Prize 2013 - Selected Plant & Artists

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This is the Gallery of  Artwork selected for The Derwent Art Prize.

Below you lot tin sack uncovering the listing of artists with the plant selected for the Derwent Art Prize Exhibition.

This postal service follows on from my before posts:

Derwent Art Prize - a farther alternative of the images inwards the Website Gallery

For some argue it was announced inwards whatever one-time monastic enjoin - neither alphabetical past times commencement name, surname or championship of the work. Which is non bad if you lot believe that the alphabet plays a role inwards alternative as well as non so skillful if you're looking for the call of a exceptional artist!

I've reordered them into an alphabetical monastic enjoin - run across below.

The link inwards the artist's call is to their website - if they receive got one.  One of the reasons I've done this (this postal service has taken 2 days to write!) is because I recollect all those who are critical of the alternative should peradventure accept a longer aspect at the artwork produced past times the artists whose artwork has been selected.

There's e'er a enquiry of sense of savor when it comes to alternative - but there's also a enquiry of the extent to which people receive got dedicated their lives to beingness a contemporary creative somebody as well as the extent to which this is recognised past times people viewing the work.

The link inwards the championship of the go is to the spider web page where you lot tin sack run across a large paradigm of the pencil fine art selected past times the judges.  I've so given the fine art medium used - although I empathize in that location was no compass to ground if to a greater extent than than 1 pencil medium had been used

I'm also including references I tin sack uncovering to whatever other prizes they've been selected for and/or won - inwards role to illustrate to those who are questioning the alternative that to a greater extent than than 1 gear upward of judges has rated an artist's work.

Derwent Art Prize - Selected Works & Artists

[NOTE: If I've got anybody's website incorrect delight permit me know.  Similarly delight permit me know if you lot receive got a website I couldn't uncovering or receive got a improve website link for your call than the 1 I've identified]

For those wondering almost the lack of coloured pencil artwork, manifestly the bulk of the go selected were graphite.

To live honest, I'll direct hold off from conclusions until I run across the exhibition, but I'd live rattling surprised if all the artwork was produced using exactly PENCILS. I know the divergence inwards mark-making betwixt pencils as well as sticks........
The go entered must live created inwards pencil (including water-soluble, pastel, graphite, charcoal or colouring pencils)Conditions of Entry

Prizes as well as People's Choice Award - Voting


Prizes

The prizes volition live awarded at the Private View at Mall Galleries, London on xviii September 2013 as well as are equally follows:
  • First prize - £5,000
  • Second Prize - £2,500
  • Third Prize - £500
  • People's Choice Award - £500
  • UKCPS Award for Excellence - £250 (The UKCPS Award for Excellence also includes a year's membership to the society)
The Peoples Choice Award (worth £500)  will live awarded to the creative somebody whose artwork gets the most votes. First you lot ask to sentiment the plant - equally much equally is possible -  in the Gallery on the website.  Then vote for your favourite past times clicking the Vote label.

Exhibition


The exhibition is at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1 from xvi - 21 September 2013. Admission is free.

Conclusions as well as a shortlist


Over the in conclusion 2 days I've had the chance to accept a skillful aspect at the plant - inwards damage of the paradigm available - as well as sometimes inwards damage of images also available on websites.  This has led me to:
  • some conclusions almost the artists 
  • some observations almost the selected artwork
  • a long shortlist for if I was awarding a prize
  • some suggestions for the adjacent contest - as well as I rattling much promise in that location volition live one!

Selected artists


Two things struck me almost the artists.  I go through this procedure of identifying artists for a lot of competitions as well as exhibitions - as well as I haven't seen artwork past times most of these artists before.  Some I know but most I don't. Which is skillful because it agency novel artists are getting some exposure at a national grade as well as inwards a skillful gallery.

The other thing which struck me is that piece some displayed fine fine art drawing on their websites a lot did not.  The divergence was those who had a gallery exactly for their drawings. Just an observation.

My ain conclusions almost the selected artwork are equally follows:


  • the monochrome bias - whether graphite, coloured pencils or charcoal - is OTT. 
    • Do artists make monochrome go because that's what they recollect "serious art" is all about?  Or is it because graphite as well as charcoal are the entirely pencil media that most artists larn to grips with?  Maybe it's a chip of both?
    • Do those working inwards color non contemplate working inwards a to a greater extent than contemporary way - or exactly don't larn into competitions?
  • It's rattling pleasing to run across such a broad arrive at of styles inwards the go selected.  There's aught inwards the FAQs or Conditions of Entry to advise what type of pencil fine art was appropriate for this contest - other than my friend Vivien Blackburn's mixed media paradigm used to advertise the competition!  Both of us are good aware that pencils tin sack live used for a rattling broad arrive at of mark-making processes - equally is Derwent.  I'm non certain that everybody who entered the contest was peradventure aware of the compass of contemporary drawing using pencil media.  They are now!
  • It would live fifty-fifty improve if all the pencil fine art was made inwards pencil as well as didn't infringe copyright. Pure speculation on my role but I'd live happy to topographic point to Derwent those artworks which I recollect mightiness non wholly comply amongst the contest conditions.  
  • Coloured pencil artists ask to halt duplicating photos.  CP artists inwards exceptional ask to recognise that transcend competitions - where the emphasis is on fine art - rattling oftentimes don't select go which duplicates a photograph, oftentimes because it isn't perceived equally beingness an interesting or equally innovative equally other artwork.  I'd rattling much recommend that CP artists see the exhibition as well as also explore to a greater extent than contemporary mark-making processes inwards the adjacent year. 
  • More pastel artists who regularly usage pastel pencils need to submit go adjacent year!(and yes I am looking at you lot Felicity House! :)  )
  • I don't recollect I've seen an exhibition where I've wholly agreed amongst the alternative made past times the judging panel. People similar dissimilar things as well as thus select dissimilar art. However it'll live interesting to run across what proportion I experience merits alternative at this grade when I run across it inwards somebody - as well as I rattling much aspect forwards to the exhibition.

My shortlist


This is my long shortlist of transcend 10 drawings I'd live selecting from if I was awarding a prize
  1. Gillian Adair McFarland - Impact (pencil Pressure) - a deceptively elementary drawing of a shape amongst perennial "impact" but constructed using an odd approach
  2. Chrys Allen Life Drawing Continued - I exactly dear the continuous life drawing on both sides of a curlicue of paper.  I'm left wondering whether they were genuinely done from life equally I'd aspect the curlicue to live rather to a greater extent than battered if it had gone to as well as from life studios to build upward the quantity!
  3. Hazel Bowman - Blessed Is The Gift Of Laughter graphite I similar artists who demonstrate how valuable a pencil is inwards observing what you lot run across around you lot - peculiarly inwards relation to people. To my mind, this artist's website clearly persuades that this is an creative somebody who knows how to uncovering as well as go from life - as well as fifty-fifty if it wasn't as well as referenced a photograph I'd so similar the fact that it doesn't aspect equally if it did!
  4. Patricia Cain - Arena Drawing - I similar Patricia's drawings as well as I've seen a lot of them.  I'll receive got to hold back to the exhibition to appreciate this 1 though..........
  5. Stephen Kavanagh You Must Answer My Questions Without Wasting Time to Reflect A drawing which makes you lot aspect as well as so aspect in 1 trial to a greater extent than as well as so reflect.
  6. Lawrence Nash RWA Ref 1209 Coloured Pencils 
  7. Janie Pirie The Majestic Savoy Coloured Pencils Despite my proposition below almost all novel work, this deserves to live inwards a shortlist - but so I receive got seen it twice before as well as it's an fantabulous botanical drawing using coloured pencils.  
  8. Alan Woollett Five Coots - I've photographed as well as drawn a lot of naughty coots as well as this drawing absolutely captures all the coot behavior that doesn't involve pecking their neighbours or other birds!
  9. Roy Wright Regeneration 6 Charcoal More because I genuinely charge per unit of measurement his drawings than because this 1 moves me - but his tree drawings are e'er wonderfully sensitive. I suspect this 1 would grown on me.
  10. Ryotaro Yamanaka Noon - I exactly hold coming dorsum to this one.  It arouses my curiosity

What would you lot include inwards your long shortlist?  Leave a comment below.

Some suggestions


Some suggestions for the future.  I'm non writing inwards code - I tried as well as it didn't go so what follows is pretty direct!
  • Be squeamish to artists! Limit alternative past times the judges to 1 artwork per artist.  In an fine art contest which aims to promote pencil fine art I desire to run across equally much multifariousness equally possible - non exactly to a greater extent than of the same - peculiarly when 'more of the same' is exactly NOT "outstanding".  I'm certain I'm non the entirely somebody who'd back upward this proposition. Hence although artists tin sack submit upward to half-dozen the boundary on the number exhibited should live express to one.  This also helps to a greater extent than artists to go gain exposure amongst fine art collectors as well as go improve known past times the public.
  • Make it clearer to artists that all styles of contemporary artwork are eligible as well as the entirely constraint is it must live produced using pencils.  This clarifies matters for those who duplicate photographs equally good equally those who lean towards rattling innovative forms of mark-making.
  • Introduce mandatory weather such that:
    • all entries receive got NEVER been exhibited before.  If you're going to receive got a major cash prize, a basic regulation should live that are seeing NEW go never seen before inwards public. While I tin sack recollect of some rattling skillful reasons why that mightiness non live a skillful status for the commencement year, I recollect this should live a requirement for all hereafter years.
    • no slice of fine art should receive got the same call equally some other slice of art(!)  I know this sounds obvious but somehow the selectors managed to pick 2 artists where this was the instance as well as IMO in that location receive got been lineament command issues equally a result. ALL file names should clearly topographic point the artwork. It's essential if lineament command problems are to live avoided amongst honour to pieces amongst identical names.
  • Make it slow for people to uncovering an artist. I dear the thought that the plant were non presented to selectors inwards alphabetical monastic enjoin - so that the 2d one-half of the alphabet did non endure from alternative fatigue.  However subsequent presentation of a tape of selected artists needs to live alphabetical past times championship - as well as the listing of selected artists should live on the website.  
  • Always include size when detailing a go on a website.  That's because it matters! People ask to know whether the paradigm is of a rattling small-scale or a rattling large work.  A digital paradigm of a large go reduced downwardly oftentimes looks rattling much improve than 1 of a smaller work.
  • Increase the size of the artwork on screen - At the minute it's rather similar trying to gauge a drawing past times standing on the other side of the Gallery.  It's exactly impossible to appreciate some of the drawings online - which is a rattling non bad compassion as well as also does aught to underpin the declaration that these are 'outstanding'.  
  • the website needs improve images - also many are substandard inwards damage of lineament as well as Definition which, coupled amongst the size issues, makes appreciating them that much to a greater extent than difficult
  • Change the requirement to furnish a telephone number inwards monastic enjoin to vote.  This is neither explained nor an obvious requirement as well as deters people from registering to vote - similar me!

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