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Review: Novel English Fine Art Lodge Annual Exhibition 2015

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In 2015, the Annual Exhibition of the New English linguistic communication Art Club has moved from the "last exhibition earlier Christmas" slot to the "opens at the same fourth dimension every bit the RA Summer Exhibition" slot. Which, to my hear makes a lot of sense. The NEAC were later on all the anglicised version of the Impressionist revolt against the anglican together with academic equivalent of the Paris Salon ie the Royal Academy of Arts. (You tin dismiss read to a greater extent than almost the illustrious history of NEAC on their website).

I went to meet it end calendar week - together with apologies for the belatedly review but my broadband got caught upward inwards roadworks which it didn't like, addition I got taken out past times the tiredness associated amongst the severe hurting from a shoulder disorder! It's non been a adept week.

View of the West Gallery
More from the West Gallery
There are 397 artworks inwards the exhibition which is hung throughout the iii galleries. H5N1 farther 12 industrial plant were shortlisted for The Haworth Prize for landscape epitome together with drawing together with are hung inwards the Threadneedle Space
The Prize, sponsored past times The Haworth Trust is for immature artists (aged 35 years together with under) living together with working inwards the North of England, creating move inspired past times their surroundings.
The Haworth Prize for landscape epitome together with drawing12 shortlisted industrial plant selected from 100 entries

Information for artists contemplating an entry side past times side year


Over 1,000 artworks were submitted digitally every bit purpose of the opened upward entry. Of these some 300 were called inwards for farther review together with 94 were selected to hang inwards the exhibition. That means:
  • odds of beingness hung if y'all learn inwards are slightly less than 10%
  • odds of beingness hung if y'all are asked to submit move to the gallery is a fleck less than 1:3 which is pretty adept together with definitely worth the transportation costs.
I'll write to a greater extent than almost the exhibition together with the prizewinners below but firstly - for the skimmers - hither are the details of the exhibition

Facts almost the exhibition

Incidentally, in that place appears to live no specific page for the exhibition amongst a commentary on the website. While the Home Page provides the really basic details, the exclusively link inwards the exhibitions department of the website points to the telephone band for entries page on the Mall Galleries website. I think this is a major omission for an of import number which needs to live remedied.

Prizewinners


I noted that in that place were fewer prizes than inwards the past. On the other hand, it's worth noting that 1 of the things almost the NEAC exhibition is that it has some pretty decent cash prizes.

The Mall Galleries website has a dedicated page for the prizewinners which includes first-class large images therefore I won't replicate them here.

The prizewinners are:

  • The Haworth Prize for landscape epitome together with drawing (£4,000) - Cropton Forest 1  (charcoal, graphite together with pastel drawing 35x38 inches) by Janine  Baldwin (graduated 2001) 
  • The Zsuzsi Roboz Prize (£5,000) - Corner of the Studio II by Arthur Neal NEAC b.1951
  • The Doreen McIntosh Prize (£5,000) - Woman at a Table by this post. This is his Facebook Page
  • The Winsor & Newton Award (£500) - Late Jan Pears by Michael Weller b.1965
  • The NEAC Critics' Prize (£250) - Clifton Suspension Bridge, Contre Jour, January past times Tom Hughes  
  • The Prize of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers (£200) - Self 2015 past times Michael Whittlesea NEAC b. 1938 (who could practise amongst upgrading to a responsive tenplate for his website)
  • The Dry Red Press Award - A Walk Across the Fields past times June Berry NEAC b.1924 

Commentary


NEAC claims that
The New English linguistic communication represents the really best of contemporary British figurative painting.
Just how dissimilar they are from the figurative paintings together with drawings which are forthwith shown past times the RA members is a moot point. Especially every bit a number of members of NEAC are also members of the RA.

Just how figurative some of the artwork is - is also a moot point.

More of import is the deviation betwixt the artwork inwards the West gallery together with Threadneedle Space (mainly members) together with the North Gallery (mainly opened upward entry). I receive got to tell on residuum I enjoyed the North Gallery to a greater extent than than the move shown inwards the bigger gallery spaces.

That's mayhap because I establish the characteristic wall every bit y'all entered the gallery to live dominated past times paintings which were likewise grayness together with sombre. The flattened the whole wall. I've non included an epitome - but I heard from other people inwards the exhibition together with they felt the same way. The mud grayness sucked life out of the wall. Such paintings demand lots of infinite around them together with they are non a adept selection for an fine art fellowship exhibition. (I've made the same a comment inwards the past times at another NEAC exhibition ii years ago)

By way of contrast I retrieve vividly the annual exhibition inwards 2010 which was a consummate joy. together with a pleasance to walk round. My feeling is that NEAC is on its way dorsum upward from the pit it dug itself into inwards 2013 - but has some way to learn to learn dorsum to the standards of some of the first-class exhibitions it has set on inwards the past.

Below are some of the walls inwards the North Gallery - which reminded me to a greater extent than of NEAC exhibitions I used to genuinely like.

Artwork inwards the North Gallery #1
I liked the Borders landscapes amongst furrows past times Donald Ritchie b.1938
together with 'View amongst a room" past times Haidee-Jo Summers (bottom right)
Artwork inwards the North Gallery #2
The epitome inwards the centre is past times Hugo Grenville and is priced at £15,000.
He is a non fellow member together with has to receive got one of the most odd CVs I've ever read!
Artwork inwards the North Gallery #3
I specially liked Felicity House's drawing of the Venice Fish Markey (top right) - every bit did Ken Howard who bought it
Bridget Moores flower trees - inwards gouache - kept catching my eye
Artwork inwards the North Gallery #4
1 gallery was to a greater extent than or less devoted to monochrome drawings together with prints
I'm wondering if this is because the artwork inwards the North Galleries is typically produced past times younger artists?  Yet I'm no saltation chicken (I'm the proud possessor of a Boris Card) together with when I tell immature I approximate I genuinely hateful middle aged - pregnant younger than me!

Nonetheless when a lot of the fine art elsewhere inwards the exhibition is past times artists older than me together with therefore I think there's a work which needs to live addressed.  I think I'm going to start including nascency years to underline the point.

That said it's adept to meet that NEAC is recruiting 'young blood'. I think mayhap it needs to sit down downward together with start addressing succession planning every bit an organisational initiative.  After all an fine art fellowship which helps artists amongst their careers needs to start doing this somewhere rather nearer the kickoff of their careers if it is to receive got whatsoever form of beneficial impact.

That said the next artists tin dismiss practise really piddling incorrect inwards my eyes together with the bulk are older artists! They are:
  • Richard Bawden NEAC, RWS b.1936 - I'm totally taken amongst the way he combines drawing together with watercolour, observation together with quirkiness oftentimes inside a domestic interior context
Paintings past times (left) Richard Bawden together with (right) June Berry
Somebody should give them an exhibition together!
  • June Berry NEAC, Hon RE, RWS RWA b. 1924 - who seems to receive got a prodigious output of views from her solid inwards French Republic amongst no signs of dropping off inwards character despite beingness over 90!  She's been regularly exhibiting at the RA Summer Exhibition since earlier I was born together with I'm the proud possessor of 1 of her paintings!  (PS. Who knew she was a code breaker at Bletchley Park during WW2?)
  • Patrick Cullen - I genuinely liked his contre jour crude epitome of canes inwards Tuscany. It fairly bounced off the wall together with said "Look at me" - which is interesting every bit his other paintings are much to a greater extent than subdued together with total of what I telephone band "coloured greys" (as distinct from "mud" colours which I also saw elsewhere inwards the exhibition!) He genuinely knows how to brand colours 'sing'!
Canes against the Light, Tuscany past times Patrick Cullen (£4,250)
oil, 36 x 44 inches
  • Judith Gardner NEAC - I uncovering that I almost ever similar anything painted past times Judith Gardner - together with in that place seem to live quite a few people who concord amongst me. She has a wonderful way of epitome calorie-free inwards depression cardinal paintings.
  • Pamela Kay NEAC RBA RWS - I've loved her nonetheless life paintings inwards crude or watercolour amongst trunk pigment for a long time. She ever used to brand me think of Chardin together with Manet together with has displayed a really certain touching inwards the past.  I was pleased to meet move to a greater extent than typical of her past times move inwards this show. I  always associate cherries amongst Pamela!  I'm non certain when she was born but her working life started inwards 1960!
Cherries past times Pamela Kay (£1,850)
oil
Small crude paintings past times Jane Corsellis (top Left) together with Pamela Kay (all the ones amongst the reddish SOLD dot)
- much dear past times some fine art collectors
  • Ruth Stage NEAC - I adore the colours, way together with approach employed past times R uth Stage when working amongst egg tempera to create her delicious landscapes. I similar the way she tilts the pic airplane but plenty but non likewise much.
Landscape paintings inwards egg tempera past times Ruth Stage NEAC
  • Michael Whittlesea NEAC  - I love his landscapes - they're a wonderful combination of composition together with colour
Finally it was wretched to meet the end of William Bowyer's move later on his decease on March. His paintings receive got ever been adept to await at.

William Bowyer - self-portrait

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