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Bp Portrait Accolade 2013 - The Shortlist

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This year, inwards a alter from previous years, solely 2 artists direct maintain been shortlisted for the £30,000 BP Portrait Award 2013 and both direct maintain painted portraits of sons together with daughters.

Notably both paintings demo total figures together with non simply heads or heads together with upper body lone together with it's blatantly obvious that the creative individual knows the sitter(s).  I'm speculating that nosotros may live on calling this the yr of the render to the genuinely observational ikon - from life.  Those aspiring to larn inwards side past times side year's contest should accept note!  These telephone commutation points almost the nature of the portrait required for this contest are ones I highlighted inwards my Call for Entries postal service dorsum inwards Dec (see BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries)

Artists shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award

In previous years nosotros direct maintain had 4 artists shortlisted for the showtime 3 prizes summation the Young Artists Award.

However this yr the prize coin has been redistributed together with so that the showtime prize coin has been increased together with the Third Prize has been eliminated.  This way the prizes for the BP Portrait Award are directly equally follows:
  • BP Portrait Award Winner -  £30,000 cash prize a committee worth £5,000, to live on agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery together with the artist.
  • BP Portrait Award Runner upwards - £10,000 
  • Young Artist Award - £7,000
  • BP Travel Award 2013 - £6,000
Those inwards the running for the Young Artist Award (for the go of a selected creative individual aged betwixt eighteen together with 30) together with the BP Travel Award volition uncovering out at the Awards Evening on eighteen June who the winner is.  This makes feel to me equally inwards recent years equally it's unremarkably been possible to say who is the winner of the Young Artist Award inwards advance purely on the footing of age!

As ever the panel of judges saw all the master copy paintings entered. The jury for the awards were:
  • Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
  • David Dawson, Painter together with Photographer
  • Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery
  • Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary
  • Ali Smith, Author
  • Des Violaris, Director, U.K. Arts & Culture, BP
Both the artists shortlisted for the 2013 BP Portrait Award 2013 have painted their children. They are:
  • John Devane for The Uncertain Time and 
  • Susanne du Toit for Pieter.

John Devane - The Uncertain Time

'The Uncertain Time' 
1720 x 2490mm, fossil oil on canvas
© John Devane
Age: 58
Nationality: British
Occupation Head of Department, Design together with Visual Arts, School of Art together with Design, Coventry University and
Current home: Midlands
Art education: MA (Painting) from the Royal College of Art, 1975, B.A (Hons), Fine Art, Liverpool Polytechnic. 1972, Foundation Course, Blackpool School of Arts together with Technology
Previous appearances inwards this award: In the House of The Cellist (1995)
Website: BBC - Your Paintings - a slideshow of 12 paintings past times John Devane
Subject: The Uncertain Time (1720 x 2490mm, fossil oil on canvas).
His large grouping portrait is of his 3 children: Lucy, 25, Laura, 20, together with Louis, xv which was painted over the class of 3 years.  His aim was to demo how children emerge from childhood together with laid about to assert their independence revealing something of their adult selves.

The composition suggests an almost stage-like shallow infinite constructed inwards 2 zones alongside the 3 figures presented equally if they are awaiting closed to variety of event.

The artist’s telephone commutation points of reference are the works of Courbet, Chardin, Degas, Balthus together with Samuel Beckett.

John Devane has lectured extensively at diverse universities since 1980 in Fine Art at BA together with MA level.  He's held his introduce seat of Head of Department of Design together with Visual Arts since 2004.  He's likewise active at a national grade inwards the National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE).

Susanne du Toit - Pieter

Age: 58
Nationality: South African past times birth
Occupation:  Artist
Current home: Crowthorne, Berkshire
Art education: University of Pretoria (mid 70s) together with the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (mid 80s)
Previous appearances inwards this award:
Website: http://www.susannedutoit.com/  You tin come across more of her portraits
Subject: Pieter (1080 x 830mm, fossil oil on canvas)

Pieter
1080 x 830mm, fossil oil on canvas© Suzanne Toit
Her shortlisted portrait is an fossil oil ikon of her eldest boy Pieter, aged 35. The portrait is component of a series of portraits of her household unit of measurement together with the pose was his own.  She has ever works life hands essential to communicating personality together with her solely status of the pose was that his hands would appear prominently inwards the composition.
I expect to the body to furnish equally much seem equally the face. Having said that, the averted gaze of this portrait, which was his choice, struck me equally feature of his reflective character, together with became intensely engaging.

BP Portrait Award 2012 - The Exhibition

The portraits become on display to earth at the BP Portrait Award 2013 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on twenty June prior to a tour to 2 other fine art galleries inwards the UK. The dates of the 3 exhibitions together with venues are:
The exhibition volition likewise include a display of the paintings past times Carl Randall, the winner of the BP Travel Award 2012.  

He proposed next inwards the footsteps of the Japanese printmaker Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858). Hiroshige produced a serial of woodblock prints on his travels which serve equally an artistic document of life inwards Nippon inwards the 19th Century. Starting inwards Tokyo together with travelling to Kyoto, Randall has likewise produced a serial of portraits depicting locals along the route equally it exists today, contrasting alongside life works life inwards Hiroshige’s time. 
I direct maintain visited a cross-section of professions from one-time together with novel Japanese monastic say - from salary men inwards component blocks, to farmers inwards rice fields; employees of throughway restaurants, service stations together with roadside hotels.

Previous Commissions past times BP Award Winners

The BP Portrait Award website this yr highlights for the showtime fourth dimension the type of commissions which direct maintain been undertaken past times previous honour winners.  I recollect this underlines my dot almost the creative individual beingness able to demonstrate that they tin pigment to a greater extent than than simply a head.

This is the link to the Commissioned Portraits.  Each portrait indicates the sitter together with the BP Portrait Award winner who painted it.  The engagement of the portrait is non the yr the creative individual won the award.

One of my personal favourites is the portrait of Craig Wylie wins BP Portrait Award 2008.

Previous weblog posts almost the BP Portrait Award

I know that people reference my posts when trying to create upwards one's take away heed whether or non to enter.  (Some of them fifty-fifty become on to win prizes!)  So here's the consummate listing of BP Portrait weblog posts.

BP Portrait Award - Shortlisted artists on Making H5N1 Mark:

BP Portrait Award 2012
BP Portrait Award 2011
BP Portrait Award 2010
BP Portrait Award 2009
BP Portrait Award 2008<
BP Portrait Award 2007



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