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Charlie Shaffer Wins Bp Portrait Honor 2019

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Charlie Schaffer has won the prestigious kickoff prize inwards the BP Portrait Award 2019 for Imara inwards her Winter Coat, a portrait of his unopen friend.
Charlie Shaffer alongside his portrait too laurels for kickoff prize inwards the BP Portrait Award 2019
Imara inwards her Winter Coat
(1200mm x 900mm, petroleum on canvas)

BP Portrait Award - First Prize: Charlie Shaffer


He received the £35,000 banking concern check for kickoff prize lastly nighttime from Sandi Toksvig, the invitee presenter, at the Awards Ceremony for the BP Portrait Award 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery, London.  He won £35,000 too a commission, at the National Portrait Gallery Trustees’ discretion, worth £7,000 (to live agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist)

The portrait tin live seen at the National Portrait Gallery from Th xiii June when the BP Portrait Award 2019 exhibition opens to the public. Admission to the exhibition is free.

Charlie Shaffer alongside (left) Bob Dudley CEO of BP, Sandi Toksvig too correct Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Chair of the Judges too Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London

His portrait shell 2,538 submissions from 84 countries.

The portrait: His model is an English linguistic communication Literature pupil who he met after moving permanently to Brighton. Sittings for the portrait took house over iv months. The whole signal nearly the wintertime coat is that she needed to apparel something actually warm to create out alongside sitting inwards his studio’s mutual frigidity conditions.

Schaffer prepare out to pigment only Imara’s face, but later added the coat after beingness inspired past times Titian’s Portrait of Girolamo Fracastoro in the National Gallery, London, alongside its pyramidal composition too the subject’s similar attire.

Why the judges liked it:
  • admired the mannerist trend of this portrait
  • considered it had a stiff feel of a living presence
‘the skilful depiction of a combination of several unlike textures including faux-fur, pilus too peel are revealed past times prolonged looking too together these attain an epitome that is traditional, but clearly contemporary.’
About Charlie Shaffer: Born inwards London inwards 1992, Schaffer studied at Central Saint Martins too and thence the University of Brighton where he graduated inwards 2014 alongside a storey inwards Fine Art. He has also won the Brian Botting Prize ‘for an outstanding representation of the human figure’ 3 times.

This is the kickoff fourth dimension he has been selected for the BP Portrait Award exhibition. Schaffer’s exercise is mainly concerned alongside the human activity of painting, too how the procedure that allows the painter too sitter to pass fourth dimension alongside ane some other forms unique too intense relationships.

Charlie looked a tad shellshocked spell accepting his laurels too didn't actually smiling until he met dorsum upwards alongside his partner - when he relaxed!

Charlie Shaffer smiles - alongside his partner at lastly night's Awards ceremony

BP Portrait Award - Second Prize: Carl-Martin Sandvold





My photograph benefits from Jorge's flash! It was far from this bright.

The £12,000 instant prize was won past times Carl-Martin Sandvold, (Norway)

The portrait: Sandvold’s self-portrait The Crown is obviously a self-portrait inwards existential thought.  It apparently reflects his involvement inwards ‘the challenges of life, the strangeness of beingness live too other existential issues’. Central to Sandvold’s portraiture is the belief that nosotros are all trying to reconcile the dearest of life alongside the noesis of death, saying:
“The crown symbolises the peak of power, achievement too stuff abundance. In this portrait, it suggests that none of these things actually solve anything.”
Carl-Martin Sandvold (18.06.1981)
The Crown
(500mm x 400mm, petroleum on linen)
Why the judges liked it: The judges were peculiarly impressed past times the assured treatment of pigment too swell observation, creating a portrait that had made a memorable impression, too lingered inwards the mind.

About Carl-Martin Sandvold:  His exercise began on the streets of Oslo, where he made urban street fine art during his teenage years. He began his fine art grooming inwards Norway, continued his studies at the Florence Academy of Art too the Grand Central Academy of Art inwards New York - too and thence returned to Florence for a stint at the Charles H. Cecil Studios. Currently, Sandvold’s studio is located on the site of Edvard Munch’s old estate on the outskirts of Oslo.

BP Portrait Award - Third Prize: Massimiliano Pironti 


Massimiliano Pironti won tertiary prize of £10,000 for Quo Vadis? - his portrait of his 95 twelvemonth old maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a former miller too manufacturing flora worker. 
Massimiliano Pironti at the Awards Ceremony alongside a depiction of his epitome behind him.
The portrait:  ()The tertiary prize of £10,000 went to Italian artist, Pironti, for Quo Vadis?,
Pironti’s portrait Quo Vadis? depicts his maternal grandmother, Vincenza, a old miller too manufacturing flora worker straight off aged ninety-five. Pironti made sketches too took photographs inwards the kitchen of his grandmother’s abode inwards the town of Gavignano, returning to his studio inwards Deutschland for the epitome process. Pironti says:
“My grandmother is an event of strength, dignity too authority. Every wrinkle tells her story too I wanted to capture her epitome to freeze time. This portrait is genuinely of import to me. It touches emotional chords.”
Why the judges liked it: The judges were captivated past times the first-class depiction of the subject, inwards item the sitter’s hands inwards contrast alongside the surrounding textures including rubber, tiles too curtains.

About Massimiliano Pironti: He was born inwards Colleferro, a town due south of Rome, Italy. Pironti taught himself petroleum epitome equally a teenager earlier attending an fine art schoolhouse inwards Frosinone where he focused his attending on portraiture. Painting is non his sole occupation. At the historic menses of sixteen, he began to trip the low-cal fantastic professionally too is straight off good known inwards Italy for his performances inwards musical theatre, including Cats too Sabbatum Night Fever. Pironti currently lives inwards Deutschland where he has been appearing on phase inwards a long-running production of the Disney musical Tarzan.

I'm really flattered to larn inwards on the human activity equally well. Massimiliano insisted he had his photograph taken alongside me because I was the kickoff individual inwards the Britain to write nearly him too his fine art - too for somebody who is a total time professional actor, vocalizer too dancer working inwards Europe - who loves painting, this was a large deal!

Massimiliano Pironti alongside his portrait - too me
Quo Vadis?900mm x 600mm, petroleum on aluminium
You tin read what I wrote nearly Massimiliano Pironti inwards my lastly year's post about BP Portrait Award 2018 - Artists alongside their paintings

BP Young Artist Award: Emma Hopkins

Emma Hopkins at the Awards ceremony

30 year-old Brighton based creative individual Emma Hopkins won the BP Young Artist Award of £9,000 for the operate of a selected entrant aged betwixt 18 too 30

 About the portrait: This is a portrait of her friend Sophie Mayanne (a photographer) too her pet domestic dog Carla. Mayanne is known for Behind the Scars, a photography projection nearly people’s scars too the stories behind them. Hopkins’ expertise inwards make-up too prosthetics has fed straight into her painting.

Emma Hopkins alongside Sophie too Carla and award
1520mm x 920mm, petroleum on polyester)
Why the judges liked it: The judges liked the way negative infinite had been used inwards the portrait, too how the creative individual had refreshed the traditional depiction of the nude alongside an interesting mutual gaze betwixt the creative individual too sitter.

About Emma Hopkins: She was born inwards Brighton inwards 1989 (making 2 prizewinners alongside a link to Brighton) too turned to portrait epitome after graduating alongside a storey inwards Make-up too Prosthetics for Performance from the University of the Arts, London. She is a self-taught portrait painter too straight off focuses almost solely on nude portraits too studies of human flesh.
“I desire to sympathize equally much equally I tin nearly what it agency to live human. We are non only the clothed individual nosotros introduce to the world. We are the withdraw heed too trunk that nosotros inhabit.”
She kickoff exhibited her operate inwards a staff demo at the Chelsea Arts Club spell working behind the bar. She won the Bulldog Bursary inwards 2014. She became a fellow member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters inwards 2017.

About the BP Portrait Award


The BP Portrait Award, ane of the most of import platforms for portrait painters, has a kickoff prize of £35,000, making it ane of the largest for whatever global arts competition. This highly successful annual effect is aimed at encouraging artists over the historic menses of 18 to focus upon, too develop, the theme of portraiture inwards their work.

2019 is the Portrait Award’s 40th twelvemonth at the National Portrait Gallery too 30th twelvemonth of sponsorship past times BP.
“The BP Portrait Award is ane of the most of import platforms for contemporary portraiture inwards the world. BP is ane of the longest running supporters of Britain arts too culture, too are proud to move on this legacy. We await frontward to seeing the exhibition inwards London, too and thence Edinburgh too Belfast throughout the year. Congratulations to Charlie Schaffer too all of this year’s prize winners.”Ms Des Violaris, Director Britain Arts too Culture BP

The BP Portrait Award 2019 Exhibition too Tour 


The BP Portrait Award 2019 exhibition volition run at

  • the National Portrait Gallery, London, from Th xiii June to sun xx Oct 2019 (Admission is free)
  • Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (7 Dec 2019 to 22 March 2020) and 
  • Ulster Museum, Belfast (April to June 2020).


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