Jan Mikulka Wins £20,000 Self Portrait Prize
Monday 27 January 2020
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I had the cracking pleasance today of coming together the Czech artist ).
January Mikulka is a Czech creative soul who lives too industrial plant inwards Prague. In 2011, he won the Visitors Choice accolade at the BP exhibition inwards 2011 for his portrait of his friend Jakub. Jan gained a master’s score from the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague too at nowadays industrial plant amount fourth dimension equally a professional person painter. He has exhibited his fine art inwards exhibitions inwards the Czech too Slovak Republics too completed a disclose of portrait commissions.
In the photograph above, Alastair is genuinely belongings the banking concern gibe for £20,000 inwards his hand! I had an interesting tidings alongside both January too Alastair concerning how to larn a banking concern gibe for £20,000 into a banking concern work concern human relationship inwards Prague without setting off the coin laundering controls which are then prevalent these days! Not the kind of work which fine art societies are faced alongside every 24-hour interval - simply I gauge ane which volition hap to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than equally opened upwards exhibitions drib dead to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than international.
The SELF Prize attracted 946 entries from 635 artists. Of these, most 30% were based inwards London piece 63 artists - including the winner - were based exterior the UK. I assemble about 8 members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters submitted move simply solely 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 too drib dead on until Fri 24 May.
Just 29 self portraits were shortlisted for the exhibition too the £20,000 SELF Prize. Here's a sample of what y'all tin reckon if y'all catch the exhibition. I'm afraid other than the people whose move I recognised immediately I can't say y'all who did what equally I couldn't read the labels. The eyes are improving simply I'm inwards limbo nation alongside spectacles for that detail distance!
The move selected for the exhibition represented a various attain of ways of portraying the creative soul too much was of a really high quality. I wouldn't personally accept selected all of it - simply I did similar a lot of what I saw.
What struck me was how similar about of the move was to move I reckon each twelvemonth inwards the BP Portrait Award exhibitions. There in ane trial to a greater extent than quite a few of the selected artists are people who accept previously been selected for too accept won prizes at the BP (e.g. James Lloyd RP - winner inwards 1997, Jason Walker RP, Alan Coulson, Thea Penna (Thea Penna - Portrait Painter) too of class Jan.
I mean value this is going to drib dead a really of import prize inwards the globe of portraiture. It sure is cracking to accept a prize inwards the U.K. which is non express to paradigm inwards crude or acrylics!
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| Winner of the £20,000 SELF Portrait Prize Jan Mikulka alongside his self portrait (oil on canvas, 100x70cm, 2012) too Alastair Adams, President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters |
In the photograph above, Alastair is genuinely belongings the banking concern gibe for £20,000 inwards his hand! I had an interesting tidings alongside both January too Alastair concerning how to larn a banking concern gibe for £20,000 into a banking concern work concern human relationship inwards Prague without setting off the coin laundering controls which are then prevalent these days! Not the kind of work which fine art societies are faced alongside every 24-hour interval - simply I gauge ane which volition hap to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than equally opened upwards exhibitions drib dead to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than international.
The SELF Prize attracted 946 entries from 635 artists. Of these, most 30% were based inwards London piece 63 artists - including the winner - were based exterior the UK. I assemble about 8 members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters submitted move simply solely 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 too drib dead on until Fri 24 May.
Just 29 self portraits were shortlisted for the exhibition too the £20,000 SELF Prize. Here's a sample of what y'all tin reckon if y'all catch the exhibition. I'm afraid other than the people whose move I recognised immediately I can't say y'all who did what equally I couldn't read the labels. The eyes are improving simply I'm inwards limbo nation alongside spectacles for that detail 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 about of the move was to move I reckon each twelvemonth inwards the BP Portrait Award exhibitions. There in ane trial to a greater extent than quite a few of the selected artists are people who accept previously been selected for too accept won prizes at the BP (e.g. James Lloyd RP - winner inwards 1997, Jason Walker RP, Alan Coulson, Thea Penna (Thea Penna - Portrait Painter) too of class Jan.
I mean value this is going to drib dead a really of import prize inwards the globe of portraiture. It sure is cracking to accept a prize inwards the U.K. which is non express to paradigm inwards crude or acrylics!
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