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Sophie Ploeg Wins Bp Move Accolade 2013

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How would you lot similar an exhibition of your paintings at the National Portrait Gallery? That's non 1 icon inward a grouping exhibition - that's a existent exhibition.

Win the BP Travel Award together with too the cash prize of £6,000 together with that's just 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 ever interesting - together with they're ever really different.

The Travel Award is based on a projection proposal yesteryear an creative mortal submitting operate for the BP Portrait Award.  The thought is that an creative mortal of merit should take away hold the chance to operate inward a unlike environs on a projection related to portraiture. The portraits painted every bit a trial of the projection 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 agency on the portrait submitted - it's all downwards to the project.

At the halt I take away hold some tips for time to come applicants based on my observation of yesteryear 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 yesteryear 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 yesteryear 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 1 of my Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark Awards 2012 last Dec amongst this icon (see right) most which I wrote at the time
Sophie loves materials together with it shows! I've seen her operate upward unopen inward exhibitions together with it is genuinely stunning. She's especially skillful at getting the subtleties of neutral colours.
Sophie Ploeg amongst her self portrait
© Sophie Ploeg
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
The interesting affair for all of us - together with thus 1 of the reasons behind this shipping service - is that Sophie intends to weblog most her sense on her blog Sophie Ploeg right the agency through the year.

So await to encounter posts most what she's upward to together with how the projection gets prepare together with executed - from the enquiry through to the icon - together with maybe she tells me - mayhap fifty-fifty a book!

Sophie's really 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 crusade the projection along piece at the same fourth dimension allowing for serendipity.  Her plans may alter during the twelvemonth - every bit uncovering leads to novel insights.  However electrical current 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 only about the topic together with researching the meanings associated amongst have on together with textiles together with their condition inward paintings of the menses eg how of import was the fashion together with textile to both the sitter together with the artist; how of import was the textile to the theatricality of a painting
  • studying how lace together with textiles were painted 
  • how fabric, lace together with have on changed over time 
  • arriving at an interpretation of the important of textile together with lace inward 17th portraiture which has the compass to inform important inward today's contemporary portrait paintings
We had dejeuner finally Wed together with Sophie told me to a greater extent than most her plans together with how the move utilization fits inward amongst her really long term involvement inward textiles, lace together with the touching on they on a painting.
I volition report modern artists, lace makers together with other 'users' to aid 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 aid me focussing my ain heed on how I desire to translate things. The large interrogation of how to translate the former masters inward a meaningful way, without existence gimmicky or cliche is really interesting together with I desire to take away 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 take away hold found; an interpretation of textiles together with lace inward early on 17th century portraiture, an interpretation which - I promise - volition take away hold important 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 observe really interesting most her Travel Project:
  • Firstly, it's odd to observe a move abide by 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 introduce together with brand a connection amongst the lessons nosotros tin acquire from the past
  • Thirdly, I'm non inward the to the lowest degree combat surprised to acquire 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 facial expression like.  Although she has some ideas together with options, she doesn't all the same 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 allow her enquiry motion her towards a persuasion of how best to educate 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 off shipping service - see Travel Award Plans.

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

Small daughter from the icon yesteryear Peter Paul Rubens of
The Family of Jan Brueghel the Elder
Oil on panel
Samuel Courtauld Trust: Princes Gate Bequest, 1978
Courtauld Collection
The menage unit of measurement are expensively dressed, befitting their condition every bit wealthy citizens of Antwerp.
The Family of January Brueghel the Elder (1613-15) yesteryear Peter Paul Rubens
You tin read to a greater extent than most Sophie inward this interview amongst BP Travel Award: Gareth Reid together with the Finnish wintertime bathers (June 08)
  • Be clear most why move is essential to the fulfilment of your quest
  • Think most its context e.g.
    • does it take away hold a historical context? how does the yesteryear influence the present; 
      • does your projection relate to what some other creative mortal has done inward the yesteryear (eg Travel Award 2012 - the dependent area of the side yesteryear side weblog post); 
      • does it relate to some chemical factor 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 1 projection for which you lot can't acquire an extension!
  • Scope what you lot take away to do, the fourth dimension required together with who needs to laissez passer you lot whatsoever permission for what you lot desire to exercise 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 take away to brand certain you lot tin deliver on fourth dimension - an exhibition amongst a deadline awaits you!
  • Think most the exhibition together with what it mightiness facial expression similar correct from the beginning.  You won't acquire a minute peril to become dorsum together with take away hold 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 yesteryear wishing skillful luck to all fuuture applicants

    The side yesteryear side shipping service is most the best Travel Award Exhibition I've seen to engagement - yesteryear Carl Randall - here's a video every bit a taster - Carl Randall - Nippon Portraits.  


    For to a greater extent than most yesteryear years of the BP Travel Award 



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