Carl Randall's Japan - The Best Bp Locomote Abide By Exhibition Ever!
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Last calendar week I enjoyed the best BP Travel Award Exhibition I've always seen at the National Portrait Gallery.
To my heed Carl Randall, who won the abide by inwards 2012, has but raised the bar inwards relation to the lineament of Travel Award Exhibition. I'm rather inclined to mean value the National Portrait Gallery concur with me because they've brought it all the means to the forepart of the Gallery together with made it a really prominent display.
'In The Footsteps of Hiroshige: The Tokaido Highway together with Portraits of Modern Japan' is on display at the National Portrait Gallert until September 15, 2013 together with volition together with then tour to Aberdeen together with Wolverhampton until June 2014.
Carl’s proposal for the abide by was to go inwards the footsteps of the Japanese woodblock impress creative someone Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), who inwards 1832 traveled along the Tokaido Highway - an one-time trading route that ran from Tokyo to Kyoto, producing a serial of woodblock prints showing the people he met together with the landscapes he experienced along the path. (see images of these in The 53 Stations of the Tokkaido Road)
Carl's thought was that he should create contemporary equivalents, documenting the people together with places of modern Japan, 180 years afterwards Hiroshige made the same journey.
I met Carl final twelvemonth together with was really taken with his proposal for his projection equally I was already very familiar with Hiroshige's run together with liked it a lot - see Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012. This postal service explains a lot almost the especial behind the projection together with besides a lot almost Carl himself.
So what did he do?
The exhibition comprises ane large run inwards pencil together with pen together with ink on newspaper together with and then a serial of minor crude paintings on canvas.
Carl explained to me that he intentionally did non reference Hiroshige's run - otherwise he'd possess got felt equally if he was but beingness doing a pastiche of the dandy ukiyo-e master copy rather than creating solely novel run which stemmed from the concept rather than the actual images.
Carl is besides doing rather good with the residue of his art. He's currently got a monochrome icon inwards the electrical flow BP Portrait Award 2013 Exhibition next his success inwards 2012.
AND he besides has roughly other of his monochrome paintings inwards the Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy (see below right).
Carl Randall - Nihon Portraits (below) is a documentary cinema made of him at run on his paintings inwards Japan. The 'Tokyo Portraits' department shows the creative someone inwards the majuscule metropolis - sketching inwards a ramen shop, on metropolis trains, at Shibuya crossings, together with at the artists' studio. The 'Hiroshima Portraits' department shows an before projection which involved painting painting of the portraits of 'Hibakusha' (survivors of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima City).
I besides did a video interview with him which I shall live on uploading shortly.
The catalogue for the principal exhibition - The BP Portrait Award 2013 - besides includes a characteristic on his travels inwards Nihon together with the resulting serial of portraits that he painted for the exhibition.
'Artists & Illustrators' Magazine (July issue) volition besides characteristic an article on his demo at The National Portrait Gallery.
Carl has besides had a majority published - ‘Carl Randall - Nihon Portraits’ - which acts as a 120-page amount color hardback catalogue of artwork made inwards Japan. It's besides available to purchase at The National Portrait Gallery shop.
I bought a copy. I possess got a really rigid hunch that Carl is going to instruct a really successful creative someone if he continues with his subject of icon portraits of people inwards Japan. I tin reach notice for sure consider him continuing with this subject of recording the contemporary life together with lives of people inwards unlike places through icon their portraits inside a modern context.
Definitely ane to watch!
Carl Randall (b. 1975, UK) is a graduate of
He has won several prizes, including 2d prize twice inwards The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (1996/97), 1st prize inwards the 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (a national icon competition), The 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo, Nihon (awarded past times Tokyo University of Fine Arts); together with The 2012 BP Travel Award (The National Portrait Gallery, London). Scholarships include The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation together with MEXT Scholarships to report inwards Japan.
He has exhibited together with sold with diverse galleries internationally – The Royal Academy of Arts, The Jerwood Gallery, The Mall Galleries, The National Portrait Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Tokyo Art Award, Japan; Art Taipei, Taiwan. Artist inwards Residencies include ‘Hiroshima Art Document’, Hiroshima City (to encounter together with pigment portraits of survivors of the atomic bomb); together with ‘ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1’, Fuji Speedway (to document the Formula 1 races inwards Japan).
See my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker
See my previous posts on this blog
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| BP Travel Award Exhibition Carl Randall with constituent of his serial of paintings of the people of Japan © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
To my heed Carl Randall, who won the abide by inwards 2012, has but raised the bar inwards relation to the lineament of Travel Award Exhibition. I'm rather inclined to mean value the National Portrait Gallery concur with me because they've brought it all the means to the forepart of the Gallery together with made it a really prominent display.
'In The Footsteps of Hiroshige: The Tokaido Highway together with Portraits of Modern Japan' is on display at the National Portrait Gallert until September 15, 2013 together with volition together with then tour to Aberdeen together with Wolverhampton until June 2014.
Carl’s proposal for the abide by was to go inwards the footsteps of the Japanese woodblock impress creative someone Ando Hiroshige (1797–1858), who inwards 1832 traveled along the Tokaido Highway - an one-time trading route that ran from Tokyo to Kyoto, producing a serial of woodblock prints showing the people he met together with the landscapes he experienced along the path. (see images of these in The 53 Stations of the Tokkaido Road)
Carl's thought was that he should create contemporary equivalents, documenting the people together with places of modern Japan, 180 years afterwards Hiroshige made the same journey.
I met Carl final twelvemonth together with was really taken with his proposal for his projection equally I was already very familiar with Hiroshige's run together with liked it a lot - see Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012. This postal service explains a lot almost the especial behind the projection together with besides a lot almost Carl himself.
So what did he do?
- He left London the day after the awards presentation final year and travelled to Japan
- He together with then travelled along the modern equivalent of the Tokkaido Highway which takes inwards both marine together with inland landscapes betwixt Tokyo together with Kyoto. (This is a link to the Wikipedia describe of piece of job concern human relationship of the historical residue stations inwards 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō)
- He's created a serial of portraits of the people of Nihon which demonstrate a cross-section of one-time together with novel Japanese society.
I possess got visited a cross-section of professions from one-time together with novel Japanese gild - from salary men inwards constituent blocks, to farmers inwards rice fields; employees of throughway restaurants, service stations together with roadside hotels.
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| Eight of the serial of 14 paintings past times Carl Randall Top row (L to R) The Rice Farmer's Daughters, Sumo, Tetrapods, Zen Garden, Kyoto Bottom Row (L to R) Aka-Fuji, Rainy Season, Hakone, Kyoto © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
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| The faces alongside the trees but seem to live on faces - until you lot await to a greater extent than closely - together with realise that roughly are using their mobile phone |
- The places depicted en route besides reverberate a multifariousness of modern together with traditional Japanese icons depicted - from dear hotels, sushi restaurants together with bullet trains; to Mount Fuji, Zen Gardens together with Kabuki.
- Interestingly ane of the unifying themes is the mobile band which is omnipresent inwards the paintings. The purpose of this equally a constant motif grounds each of the portraits really much inwards the acquaint together with prevents them from becoming seen equally a re-create of Hiroshige's work
The exhibition comprises ane large run inwards pencil together with pen together with ink on newspaper together with and then a serial of minor crude paintings on canvas.
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| Six of the serial of 14 paintings past times Carl Randall Top row (L to R) Bottom Row (L to R) © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
Carl explained to me that he intentionally did non reference Hiroshige's run - otherwise he'd possess got felt equally if he was but beingness doing a pastiche of the dandy ukiyo-e master copy rather than creating solely novel run which stemmed from the concept rather than the actual images.
Carl is besides doing rather good with the residue of his art. He's currently got a monochrome icon inwards the electrical flow BP Portrait Award 2013 Exhibition next his success inwards 2012.
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| Shinjuku, Tokyo by Carl Randall 1060 x 2330 Oil canvas © Carl Randall Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
Carl Randall - Nihon Portraits (below) is a documentary cinema made of him at run on his paintings inwards Japan. The 'Tokyo Portraits' department shows the creative someone inwards the majuscule metropolis - sketching inwards a ramen shop, on metropolis trains, at Shibuya crossings, together with at the artists' studio. The 'Hiroshima Portraits' department shows an before projection which involved painting painting of the portraits of 'Hibakusha' (survivors of the Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima City).
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| Tokyo Subway (£22,000) past times Carl Randall currently beingness exhibited (top) at the RA's Summer Exhibition Photo © Katherine Tyrrell |
The catalogue for the principal exhibition - The BP Portrait Award 2013 - besides includes a characteristic on his travels inwards Nihon together with the resulting serial of portraits that he painted for the exhibition.
'Artists & Illustrators' Magazine (July issue) volition besides characteristic an article on his demo at The National Portrait Gallery.
Carl has besides had a majority published - ‘Carl Randall - Nihon Portraits’ - which acts as a 120-page amount color hardback catalogue of artwork made inwards Japan. It's besides available to purchase at The National Portrait Gallery shop.
I bought a copy. I possess got a really rigid hunch that Carl is going to instruct a really successful creative someone if he continues with his subject of icon portraits of people inwards Japan. I tin reach notice for sure consider him continuing with this subject of recording the contemporary life together with lives of people inwards unlike places through icon their portraits inside a modern context.
Definitely ane to watch!
About Carl Randall
Carl Randall (b. 1975, UK) is a graduate of
- The Slade of Fine Art, London (BA, Painting),
- The Princes Drawing School, London (Drawing Year), and
- Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Nihon (MA & Doctorate, Fine Art).
He has won several prizes, including 2d prize twice inwards The William Coldstream Painting Competition at The Slade (1996/97), 1st prize inwards the 1998 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition (a national icon competition), The 2011 Nomura Art Prize, Tokyo, Nihon (awarded past times Tokyo University of Fine Arts); together with The 2012 BP Travel Award (The National Portrait Gallery, London). Scholarships include The Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation together with MEXT Scholarships to report inwards Japan.
He has exhibited together with sold with diverse galleries internationally – The Royal Academy of Arts, The Jerwood Gallery, The Mall Galleries, The National Portrait Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Tokyo Art Award, Japan; Art Taipei, Taiwan. Artist inwards Residencies include ‘Hiroshima Art Document’, Hiroshima City (to encounter together with pigment portraits of survivors of the atomic bomb); together with ‘ING Fresh Eyes on Formula 1’, Fuji Speedway (to document the Formula 1 races inwards Japan).
Where you lot tin reach notice consider together with listen almost Carl Randall's art
- Website: http://www.carlrandall.com/
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/carlrandallpainter
- Twitter page: https://twitter.com/CarlRandallArt
For to a greater extent than almost Hiroshige
See my website About Hiroshige - Famous Japanese Printmaker
For to a greater extent than almost past times years of the BP Travel Award
See my previous posts on this blog
- 2012 - Carl Randall wins BP Travel Award 2012
- 2011 - BP Travel Award 2011: Jo Fraser travels to Peru
- 2010 - BP Travel Awards: 2010 (Paul Beel) together with 2011 (Jo Fraser)
- 2009 - BP Travel Award - 2009 together with 2010
- 2008 - Exhibition Review: BP Travel Award 2008 - Emmanouil Bitsakis
- 2007 - BP Travel Award: Gareth Reid together with the Finnish wintertime bathers
- 2006 - View the BP Portrait Award 2007 together with BP Travel Award 2006 exhibitions
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