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Brand New!! Sophie Ploeg Wins Bp Go Honor 2013

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How would you lot similar an exhibition of your paintings at the National Portrait Gallery? That's non i paradigm inward a grouping exhibition - that's a existent exhibition.

Win the BP Travel Award together with likewise the cash prize of £6,000 together with that's precisely what you lot get.

One of my favourite parts of the BP Portrait Award exhibition is the BP Travel Award exhibition which is inward the same room. They're e'er interesting - together with they're e'er rattling different.

The Travel Award is based on a projection proposal past times an creative somebody submitting operate for the BP Portrait Award.  The thought is that an creative somebody of merit should remove hold the chance to operate inward a unlike surroundings on a projection related to portraiture. The portraits painted every bit a final result of the projection together with so have their ain mini exhibition inward the next year’s Portrait Exhibition.

So far every bit I'm aware it's non based inward whatsoever means on the portrait submitted - it's all downward to the project.

At the halt I remove hold some tips for futurity applicants based on my observation of past times projects - together with involvement inward managing projects inward the past.

BP Travel Award 2013


This twelvemonth the winner of the BP Travel Award 2013 is Sophie Ploeg.  Here's what the Award selectors had to say
Winner of the BP Travel Award 2013
Sophie Ploeg
(with L to R Bob Dudley, CEO of BP, 
Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, 
Joanna Trollope, author)
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
This twelvemonth the BP Travel Award has been awarded to Bristol-based Dutch Artist Sophie Ploeg. Having studied Art & Architectural History at universities inward The Netherlands, Ploeg, 39, won for her proposal to explore how fashion together with lace was represented inward 17th century art, every bit good every bit inward modern applications. She volition see famous lace-making centres such every bit Bruges inward Kingdom of Belgium together with Honiton inward Devon, modern lace makers together with artists, antique lace collections together with 17th century fine art collections, every bit good every bit to undertake literary research. Sophie's finally operate volition live inspired past times her findings together with volition live displayed inward the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition.
I've known Sophie since 2011 when I spotted some amazing paintings past times her - together with I've been featuring her on a regular footing since then.

crude oil on canvas, 40x30cm
© Sophie Ploeg
In fact she won i of my Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards 2012 last Dec amongst this paradigm (see right) close which I wrote at the time
Sophie loves materials together with it shows! I've seen her operate upwards unopen inward exhibitions together with it is genuinely stunning. She's peculiarly skilful at getting the subtleties of neutral colours.
Sophie Ploeg amongst her self portrait
© Sophie Ploeg
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
The interesting matter for all of us - together with thus i of the reasons behind this postal service - is that Sophie intends to spider web log close her sense on her blog Sophie Ploeg right the means through the year.

So expression to come across posts close what she's upwards to together with how the projection gets gear upwards together with executed - from the enquiry through to the paradigm - together with maybe she tells me - perchance fifty-fifty a book!

Sophie's rattling experienced at enquiry having already acquired an MA together with a PhD inward Art and Architectural History earlier she became a painter. As such she knows how to create a framework which volition displace the projection along spell at the same fourth dimension allowing for serendipity.  Her plans may alter during the twelvemonth - every bit regain leads to novel insights.  However electrical flow indications are that she'll live spending this summertime on her travels.  Her plans involve:
  • viewing together with studying clothing, textiles together with antique lace inward early on 17th century fine art (focussing generally on Jacobean period)
  • reading around the topic together with researching the meanings associated amongst vesture together with textiles together with their condition inward paintings of the menstruum eg how of import was the fashion together with cloth to both the sitter together with the artist; how of import was the cloth to the theatricality of a painting
  • studying how lace together with textiles were painted 
  • how fabric, lace together with vesture changed over time 
  • arriving at an interpretation of the pregnant of cloth together with lace inward 17th portraiture which has the reach to inform pregnant inward today's contemporary portrait paintings
We had tiffin finally Midweek together with Sophie told me to a greater extent than close her plans together with how the locomote business office fits inward amongst her rattling long term involvement inward textiles, lace together with the behavior upon they on a painting.
I volition report modern artists, lace makers together with other 'users' to assistance me along interpreting the past. I volition live seeing how they operate amongst the past, amongst textiles together with amongst the history of lace together with this volition assistance me focussing my ain hear on how I desire to translate things. The large enquiry of how to translate the erstwhile masters inward a meaningful way, without existence gimmicky or platitude is rattling interesting together with I desire to remove hold a become at it.
I volition see 17th century fine art collections similar the National Portrait Gallery, Montacute House, the Tate Britain, Rijskmuseum (Amsterdam), Frans Hals Museum (Haarlem) en lace collections inward Bruges, Honiton, together with diverse regional collections similar Sudeley Castle together with Bath Fashion Museum etc.
My operate volition live an interpretation of what I remove hold found; an interpretation of textiles together with lace inward early on 17th century portraiture, an interpretation which - I promise - volition remove hold pregnant together with relevancy for people (women) today. Topics of femininity, womanhood, children together with our house inward history are themes inward my work.
There are a issue things I notice really interesting close her Travel Project:
  • Firstly, it's odd to notice a locomote accolade projection which is involves a journeying into the past.   
  • Secondly, it's really quite academic.  Her aim, to me, seems to live to convey fine art history into the acquaint together with brand a connectedness amongst the lessons nosotros tin larn from the past
  • Thirdly, I'm non inward the to the lowest degree chip surprised to larn that output from the projection mightiness eventually involve a mass every bit good every bit paintings
  • Lastly, I applaud her resolve non to decide at this phase what her output volition expression like.  Although she has some ideas together with options, she doesn't nonetheless know what the portrait or portraits she volition live producing are going to live similar or fifty-fifty what they volition live of - other than that fabric and lace volition live involved inward some way.  She's happy to permit her enquiry displace her towards a persuasion of how best to prepare a contemporary interpretation of her topic.
Sophie is keeping a diary of all her research and is inviting all her readers to bring together her on her travels together with her journeying every bit she researches.

In fact Sophie has already published her initiatory of all postal service - see Travel Award Plans.

As for me I left the tiffin to become to a PV of a novel exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery together with ended upwards photographing lace inward paintings inward the collection together with and so sending them to Sophie!

Small daughter from the paradigm past times Peter Paul Rubens of
The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder
Oil on panel
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Courtauld Collection
The household unit of measurement are expensively dressed, befitting their condition every bit wealthy citizens of Antwerp.
The Family of January Brueghel the Elder (1613-15) past times Peter Paul Rubens
You tin read to a greater extent than close Sophie inward this interview amongst BP Travel Award: Gareth Reid together with the Finnish wintertime bathers (June 08)
  • Be clear close why locomote is essential to the fulfilment of your quest
  • Think close its context e.g.
    • does it remove hold a historical context? how does the past times influence the present; 
      • does your projection relate to what some other creative somebody has done inward the past times (eg Travel Award 2012 - the champaign of report of the adjacent spider web log post); 
      • does it relate to some chemical constituent of odd costume (eg Travel Award 2009)
    • is it ethnographic? Are you lot recording 
  • Make a robust assessment of your projection management skills - together with demonstrable sense inward delivering a projection on time.  This is i projection for which you lot can't acquire an extension!
  • Scope what you lot remove to do, the fourth dimension required together with who needs to laissez passer on you lot whatsoever permission for what you lot desire to practise or where you lot desire to go.  In other words demonstrate that you've already done relevant research!
  • Work out the practicalities BEFORE you lot submit your application.  You remove to brand certain you lot tin deliver on fourth dimension - an exhibition amongst a deadline awaits you!
  • Think close the exhibition together with what it mightiness expression similar correct from the beginning.  You won't acquire a minute remove chances to become dorsum together with accept to a greater extent than photographs or sketches.
  • Make a tape of your journey - inward a sketchbook, blog, or video - every bit good every bit inward your paintings
    • I'll complete past times wishing skilful luck to all fuuture applicants

    The adjacent postal service is close the best Travel Award Exhibition I've seen to engagement - past times Carl Randall - here's a video every bit a taster - Carl Randall - Nihon Portraits.  


    For to a greater extent than close past times years of the BP Travel Award 



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