Brand New!! Jan Mikulka Wins £20,000 Self Portrait Prize
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
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I had the nifty pleasance today of coming together the Czech artist ).
January Mikulka is a Czech creative individual who lives in addition to plant inward Prague. In 2011, he won the Visitors Choice abide by at the BP exhibition inward 2011 for his portrait of his friend Jakub. Jan gained a master’s flat from the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague in addition to at nowadays plant amount fourth dimension every bit a professional person painter. He has exhibited his fine art inward exhibitions inward the Czech in addition to Slovak Republics in addition to completed a seat out of portrait commissions.
In the photograph above, Alastair is genuinely belongings the lucifer for £20,000 inward his hand! I had an interesting give-and-take amongst both January in addition to Alastair concerning how to teach a lucifer for £20,000 into a banking concern concern human relationship inward Prague without setting off the coin laundering controls which are then prevalent these days! Not the form of work which fine art societies are faced amongst every twenty-four threescore minutes menstruation - only I estimate i which volition hap to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than every bit opened upward exhibitions teach to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than international.
The SELF Prize attracted 946 entries from 635 artists. Of these, nearly 30% were based inward London patch 63 artists - including the winner - were based exterior the UK. I assemble or then 8 members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters submitted move only alone 2 were selected.
The SELF Prize has an exhibition in the Threadneedle Space at the Mall Galleries - inside the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Both exhibitions open to the populace tomorrow in addition to proceed until Fri 24 May.
Just 29 self portraits were shortlisted for the exhibition in addition to the £20,000 SELF Prize. Here's a sample of what you lot tin watch if you lot see the exhibition. I'm afraid other than the people whose move I recognised immediately I can't state you lot who did what every bit I couldn't read the labels. The eyes are improving only I'm inward limbo nation amongst spectacles for that item distance!
The move selected for the exhibition represented a various attain of ways of portraying the creative individual in addition to much was of a really high quality. I wouldn't personally convey selected all of it - only I did similar a lot of what I saw.
What struck me was how similar or then of the move was to move I watch each twelvemonth inward the BP Portrait Award exhibitions. There i time again quite a few of the selected artists are people who convey previously been selected for in addition to convey won prizes at the BP (e.g. James Lloyd RP - winner inward 1997, Jason Walker RP, Alan Coulson, Thea Penna (Thea Penna - Portrait Painter) in addition to of class Jan.
I intend this is going to teach a really of import prize inward the earth of portraiture. It sure as shooting is nifty to convey a prize inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland which is non express to icon inward stone oil or acrylics!
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| Winner of the £20,000 SELF Portrait Prize Jan Mikulka amongst his self portrait (oil on canvas, 100x70cm, 2012) in addition to Alastair Adams, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters |
In the photograph above, Alastair is genuinely belongings the lucifer for £20,000 inward his hand! I had an interesting give-and-take amongst both January in addition to Alastair concerning how to teach a lucifer for £20,000 into a banking concern concern human relationship inward Prague without setting off the coin laundering controls which are then prevalent these days! Not the form of work which fine art societies are faced amongst every twenty-four threescore minutes menstruation - only I estimate i which volition hap to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than every bit opened upward exhibitions teach to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than international.
The SELF Prize attracted 946 entries from 635 artists. Of these, nearly 30% were based inward London patch 63 artists - including the winner - were based exterior the UK. I assemble or then 8 members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters submitted move only alone 2 were selected.
The SELF Prize has an exhibition in the Threadneedle Space at the Mall Galleries - inside the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Both exhibitions open to the populace tomorrow in addition to proceed until Fri 24 May.
Just 29 self portraits were shortlisted for the exhibition in addition to the £20,000 SELF Prize. Here's a sample of what you lot tin watch if you lot see the exhibition. I'm afraid other than the people whose move I recognised immediately I can't state you lot who did what every bit I couldn't read the labels. The eyes are improving only I'm inward limbo nation amongst spectacles for that item distance!
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| SELF Portrait Prize 2013 - East Wall, Threadneedle Space |
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| SELF Portrait Prize 2013 - South Wall, Threadneedle Space, Mall Galleries |
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| SELF Portrait Prize 2013 - West Wall, Threadneedle Space, Mall Galleries |
What struck me was how similar or then of the move was to move I watch each twelvemonth inward the BP Portrait Award exhibitions. There i time again quite a few of the selected artists are people who convey previously been selected for in addition to convey won prizes at the BP (e.g. James Lloyd RP - winner inward 1997, Jason Walker RP, Alan Coulson, Thea Penna (Thea Penna - Portrait Painter) in addition to of class Jan.
I intend this is going to teach a really of import prize inward the earth of portraiture. It sure as shooting is nifty to convey a prize inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland which is non express to icon inward stone oil or acrylics!
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