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Susanne Du Toit Wins £30,000 Bp Portrait Observe 2013

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BP Portrait Award 2013 - The Shortlist, the 2 orbit prizes both went to parents paradigm portraits of their children.  This year's prize coin awarded past times sponsor BP totals £53,000.  Below I've highlighted each of the prizewinners inwards turn.

Susanne de Toit - Winner of the BP Portrait Award 2013
(left to right:
Bob Dudley, CEO of BP, Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery,
Susanne du Toit as well as invitee presenter Joanna Trollope asset her Award)
all photos copyright Katherine Tyrrell

The BP Portrait Award 2013 - First Prize


Winner of the BP portrait Prize 2013
Pieter by Susanne de Toit
(1080 x 830mm, crude on canvas)
© Susanne de Toit
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
The foremost prize is a cash accolade of £30,000, plus, at the judges’ discretion, a committee worth £5,000, to live on agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery as well as the artist.

It's bang-up to run across a adult woman win the prize for the minute twelvemonth inwards succession inwards a contest which has traditionally been dominated past times virile someone winners.

Susanne du Toit (b. 1955) is South African born but forthwith lives inwards Crowthorne inwards Berkshire.

Her portrait of her eldest boy Pieter, aged 35 is usage of a serial of portraits of her family.  In her sense the creative someone has constitute that the hands are essential to communicating the personality of the dependent plain as well as her ane status of his pose was that his hands needed to live on prominent.
The averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me as characteristic of his reflective grapheme as well as became intensely engaging

The BP Portrait Award 2013 - Second Prize


The Uncertain Time past times John Devane
(1720 x 2490mm, crude on canvas)
© John Devane
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell

The Runner Up Prize of £10,000 went to John Devane (b. 1954) for his large grouping portrait of his 3 children Lucy historic catamenia 25, Laura historic catamenia xx as well as Louis historic catamenia 15.  This is the minute fourth dimension his go has been selected for the Exhibition associated amongst the Award.  In the House of the cellist was selected for the 1995 Exhibition

This Coventry based creative someone as well as instructor at Coventry University painted the portrait of his children over 3 years.  The intention of the portrait is that it shows his children emerging from their childhood as well as get-go to assert their independent as well as something of their adult selves.
The composition suggests an almost stage-like shallow infinite constructed inwards 2 zones amongst the 3 figures placed equally if they were awaiting some sort of event.
Key points of reference for his go are Courbet, Chardin, Degas, Balthus as well as Samuel Beckett.  John Devane has lectured extensively at diverse universities since 1980 inwards Fine Art at BA as well as MA level. He's held his nowadays seat of Head of Department of Design as well as Visual Arts since 2004. He's besides active at a national grade inwards the National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE).

John Devane - sec Prize, BP Portrait Award 2013
(with L to R Bob Dudley, CEO of BP, Sandy Nairne,
Director of the National Portrait Gallery as well as Joanna Trollope, author)
This twelvemonth for the foremost fourth dimension the shortlisting phase did non denote which artists were contenders for the Young Artist Award or the BP Travel Award.  Interestingly both artists had submitted modest paintings.

The BP Young Artist Award

Owen Normand presented amongst the Young Artist of the Year Award


Winner of the Young Artist of the Year

Das Berliner Zimmer past times Owen Normand

(The Berlin Room)
© Owen Normand
Photo © Katherine Tyrrell
The Young Artist Award of £7,000 went to Owen Normand (b. 1984) for his painting Das Berliner Zimmer (The Berlin Room).

Owen Normand comes from the North of Scotland but has been working equally a painter as well as illustrator inwards Berlin since 2010 where his primary focus is on portraiture. The portrait is of Owen's girl Hannah painted inwards her chamber inwards Berlin.  Apparently the Berliner Zimmer is unique to Berlin - it's the nurture for a long, dark, room facing into an inner courtyard amongst but a unmarried window at the far end.

His portrait of Hannah was inspired past times her connections to the city, specially those of her grandmother who moved at that spot inwards the 1930s as well as who withal lives at that spot today.

He studied at Leith School of Art (2003–04) as well as Edinburgh College of Art (2004–08).

The BP Travel Award 2013

All selected artists are invited to apply for the BP Travel Award which volition live on displayed equally usage of the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition.

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)
The BP Travel Award (£6,000) has been won past times a painter good known to me as well as to this weblog - Sophie Ploeg (Sophie Ploeg).  

We volition of class live on seeing to a greater extent than of Sophie who volition live on dorsum side past times side twelvemonth amongst her exhibition of go arising out of the Award.  Last nighttime I introduced Sophie to Carl Randall who won the Award concluding year.

There volition live on a weblog postal service virtually her proposal as well as go plans subsequently this calendar week - we're having dejeuner together tomorrow!

Plus a weblog virtually Carl's superb exhibition relating to his travels inwards Nippon over the concluding year.

The Judges


The judges this twelvemonth saw all the master paintings entered as well as were:
The BP Travel Award was judged past times Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery, Liz Rideal, Art Resource Developer, National Portrait Gallery, as well as Des Violaris, Director, Great Britain Arts as well as Culture, BP.

Sandy Nairne, Director of the NPG commented
The criterion of the BP Portrait Award 2013 is equally high equally ever, as well as congratulations got to all artists, but especially to Suzanne de Toit for her unproblematic as well as outstanding portrait of her son.
This is the 24th twelvemonth of BP back upwards for the accolade as well as BP CEO Bob Dudley made an eloquent spoken language highlighting BP's commitment to the arts across the Great Britain over the years.

Tour: The exhibition volition tour to:
  • Aberdeen Art Gallery (from 2 Nov 2013 until 1 Feb 2014) and 
  • Wolverhampton Art Gallery (from 3 March until xiv June 2014.)
Publication: H5N1 fully-illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition as well as features an introductory essay past times Joanna Trollope. The BP Portrait Award 2013 majority volition live on published on xx June 2013, as well as volition include over sixty color illustrations, toll £9.99 (paperback).

More posts virtually the BP Portrait Award 2013

I'll live on blogging virtually the BP Portrait Award all this week.  There volition be:
  • a review of the exhibition - which hopefully volition include a video
  • a postal service virtually the BP Travel Award 2012 Exhibition past times Carl Randall - which is fabulous!
  • an interview amongst Sophie Ploeg virtually her plans for her Travel Award
  • a listing of the artists selected for the exhibition - together amongst statistics virtually the exhibition
Below you lot tin detect previous posts virtually the BP Portrait Award on this blog.

2013 Competition

BP Portrait Award - Shortlisted artists on Making H5N1 Mark (2008 - 2012)


BP Portrait Award 2012


BP Portrait Award 2011


BP Portrait Award 2010


BP Portrait Award 2009


BP Portrait Award 2008


BP Portrait Award 2007


NOTE: Portraiture - Resources for Artists - contains links to all the Portrait Award exhibitions which are withal online as well as past times winners summation links to diverse other portrait competitions.

See Major Great Britain Art Competitions inwards 2013 for a summary of details virtually other major fine art competitions inwards the UK

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