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Bp Portrait Accolade 2013: Telephone Shout Upwards For Entries

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The Call for Entries for the BP Portrait Award 2013 was published this morn yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery inward London. 

 This twelvemonth the offset prize has been increased to £30,000. The Second Prize winner volition have £10,000 too the BP Young Artist Award winner £7,000.

It's a existent pleasance to review this Call for Entries each year, non to the lowest degree because inward the past at to the lowest degree i creative someone has read this post inward the past, too so entered a portrait too won a prize.  This twelvemonth perhaps it volition live on you!

was published this morn yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery inward London BP Portrait Award 2013: Call for Entries
BP Portrait Award 2013 - Call for Entries
The Portrait Award, right away inward its thirty-fourth twelvemonth at the National Portrait Gallery too twenty-fourth twelvemonth of sponsorship yesteryear BP, is the most prestigious portrait paradigm contest inward the world. With a offset prize of £30,000 the Award is aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon too educate portraiture inward their work.
Entry is online too the closing engagement is Monday 11th Feb 2013. You tin besides download a postal entry shape from the website.

You tin expose out who tin move into too how to move into below.  This post provides:
  • reasons to move into this fine art competition
  • how to larn selected
  • an overview of the requirements for all those who would similar to move into a portrait
  • links to yesteryear exhibitions too reviews on this blog
NOTE: All quotations are from the BP Portrait Award website.

Reasons to move into the BP Portrait Award

From yesteryear experience I tin remember of a number of reasons WHY portrait artists should move into this contest - only to live on selected for the exhibition.

The reality: In 2012, 2,187 artists from 75 dissimilar counties submitted their work.  The exhibition comprised only 55 paintings.  That's a 2.5% adventure of beingness selected.  (see also: BP Portrait Award 2011: People's Favourite & Statistics)

However:
  • it's a really prestigious too genuinely international competition - too international artists win prizes! e.g. run into Aleah Chapin wins £25,000 BP Portrait Award 2012
  • Just to live on selected for the exhibition is a really existent too really meaning achievement inward itself.   Many artists try, but the contest has conk really intense and few are chosen. Hence being selected for the exhibition tin live on really beneficial for an artist's career - because this is an of import juried exhibition inward a major national portrait gallery inward the middle of London. 
  • Where else exercise you lot larn the adventure to exhibit your function to over 250,000 people?  If selected your function volition live on seen inward an exhibition which is visited yesteryear an absolutely huge number of people. It's the most pop exhibition held at the NPG every twelvemonth - which agency you lot larn your fine art inward front end of a lot of people - too some of them volition desire to committee portraits.
  • You (and the balance of London) may come upward human face upward to human face upward amongst your portrait piece riding on the Underground. Your portrait may live on chosen to live on i of the few used to advertise the exhibition widely across London - or on an enormous banner exterior the Gallery!
  • Selected artists have got gained commissions from the NPG too others equally a number of the considerable involvement inward the Portrait Award too the resulting exhibition.
  • It's a real leveller - at that topographic point are no perks for who you lot are. Even the ex President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters idea long too difficult close what to submit - because she actually wanted to live on selected.  (see this YouTube interview amongst Daphne Todd inward which she talks close the paradigm she chose for the exhibition - too which won her offset prize inward 2010)
  • there's a People's Choice Prize for the most pop portrait amongst the visitors to the exhibition too it's e'er interesting to run into what get's chosen.
  • Winners of this contest tend to taste really meaning benefits to their careers afterwards winning the BP Portrait Award.
To live on honest, the existent benefits are actually focused on portrait artists.  While anybody tin enter, those who are probable to larn the maximum exercise goodness from beingness exhibited are those artists who specialise inward portraiture.

However you lot exercise demand to be organised to brand the most of beingness selected (website licked into shape, creative someone arguing cook too available, a expert gain of other function cook to live on seen; press unloosen at the ready).  I'll live on doing some other post close how to brand the most of beingness selected for a prestigious fine art competition.

How to larn Selected
To larn selected you lot demand to create expert artwork too larn noticed.  So how does that happen?
Last twelvemonth I wrote a post, containing my ain observations close what it takes to larn selected - see Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 1) and my listing of the factors which matter.

For example, did you lot know that

  • 22 out of 55 artists = 40% of the selected artists have got been selected for BP Portrait Exhibitions inward previous years
  • most portraits commissioned yesteryear the National Portrait Gallery too caput too torso, piece others are total figure.  Relatively few are the caput alone.
You have got to live on actually splendid to live on selected too win a prize the offset fourth dimension you lot move into - but it is possible!

Key Changes inward 2013

These are the changes I've spotted which are novel to 2013.
  • Increases inward prize coin for all the Awards
  • No Third Prize inward 2013 - nonetheless if nobody nether 30 is shortlisted too so the Young Artist prize volition NOT live on awarded too the funds volition live on diverted to a tertiary prize.  
  • NPG volition inward futurity focus only on organising i cardinal collection point. They volition NOT organise a regional collection from across the UK.  (Which is non to tell an enterprising courier mightiness non offering to exercise so).  I suspect this mightiness live on connected to the increment inward function associated amongst entries from International Entrants.  The details of how to submit too what is expected are besides clearer for international artists.

Exhibition

The BP Portrait Award 2013 Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery volition live on opened upward to the world from 20 June to xv September 2013.  The exhibition volition too so tour to ii other venues inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inward 2013-14 (dates too venues to live on announced).

Awards

The entire contest is judged, on an equal too anonymous basis, from master copy paintings. There is no segregated judging yesteryear share or country.

The awards are equally follows:
  • the offset prize is a cash accolade of £30,000. Plus, at the judges' discretion, a committee worth £5,000, tin live on agreed betwixt the National Portrait Gallery too the artist. 
  • Second Prize: £10,000
  • BP Young Artist Award: £7,000 All selected artists aged betwixt xviii too 30 volition automatically live on considered for both the BP Young Artist Award too the BP Portrait Award, but an private cannot win both. The purpose of this accolade is to conk along the competition's role inward showcasing immature artistic talent.
  • BP Travel Award 2013: £6,000 (an increment of £1,000 on final year)
Note at that topographic point is no longer a tertiary prize.  However if at that topographic point are no exhibitors aged 30 or nether too so no Young Artist Award volition live on given too the funds volition live on used to offering a Third Prize.

Who tin enter

Do brand certain you lot report the entry requirements. However inward short, you lot tin move into if you lot are over 18, alive anywhere inward the world, tin pigment a portrait of a human figure too taste portraiture!
This international contest is opened upward to everyone aged xviii too over inward recognition of the outstanding too innovative function currently beingness produced yesteryear artists of all ages working inward portraiture. The contest is judged, on an equal too anonymous basis, from master copy paintings. An exhibition is too so created from a alternative of the entries.
BP Portrait Award: The contest is opened upward to all artists living anywhere inward the earth who are aged xviii too over on 1st Jan 2013. This is inward recognition of the outstanding too innovative function currently beingness produced yesteryear artists of all ages working inward portraiture.

BP Young Artists Award: All entrants from the 18-30 historic menstruum grouping volition automatically live on considered for both the BP Young Artist Award too the BP Portrait Award, but an private cannot win both. Artists must live on 30 years of historic menstruum or nether on 1 Jan 2013 to live on eligible for the BP Young Artist Award.

BP Travel Award: All 2013 exhibitors volition live on eligible to submit a proposal for the BP Travel Award. The aim of the Award is to furnish the chance for an creative someone to experience working inward a dissimilar environment, inward Britain or abroad, on a projection related to portraiture which volition too so live on shown equally role of the BP Portrait Award 2014 exhibition too tour inward 2013-14.

How to Enter

Deadline

Last things offset - the deadline for your entry forms too entry fees beingness returned to the National Portrait Gallery is Monday thirteen Feb 2012.

Entry forms too fees

You'll only expose out where too when to submit your function if you lot consummate the registration too shipping the entry fee.
All entry forms for the BP Portrait Award 2012
  • need to live on registered online www.npg.org.uk/bp 
  • OR returned to: BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HE 
You volition expose out whether or non your function has been selected for exhibition yesteryear Midweek 27 March 2013.

All correspondence amongst artists volition live on via e-mail - too it's upward to you lot to banking company check your email!

The Rules

What you lot exercise NOT desire to exercise is create a function for this contest too and so realise that it isn't eligible or you lot can't introduce it inward the correct way at the correct time!  Which is why you lot demand to read the rules 3 times now!

These are The 2013 Rules. There's a lot of them, they're white on dark (never slow to read) inward really tiny impress amongst no spacing - amongst fifty-fifty smaller impress too less accessible color on the entry form.  In my persuasion that makes them impossible to read easily fifty-fifty if you lot have got splendid eyesight.

If you lot desire to larn inward easier for yourself follow what I have got to do.
  • block the rules
  • copy too glue to a wordprocessing software (I utilization Google Docs)
  • convert the text to dark too the background to white too take all formatting
  • that should convey the text into a normal font size at normal spacing which is much easier to read
I remember I mightiness start lobbying for the rules to live on available inward a normal size font inward a pdf document. Feel costless to exercise the same....... ;)

Here's my attempt at making the rules rather to a greater extent than accessible. I've separate the rules upward into sections relating to
  • you - the creative someone submitting the work
  • the portrait you lot are submitting
Note inward exceptional that plant tin live on disqualified - fifty-fifty if selected for exhibition - if they have got non adhered to the rules! 

Don't forget to permit me know if your entry gets selected!

The rules - close YOU!
In brief:
  • the contest is opened upward to all those aged over xviii on 1 Jan 2013. 
  • employees of the National Portrait Gallery, BP, too their agents, too previous offset prize-winners of the Portrait Award since 1980 are NOT eligible to enter 
The rules close YOUR PORTRAIT

Pay exceptional attending to these.  Last twelvemonth I detected more careful scrutiny too a tightening of the application of the rules.  Some are beingness spelt out to a greater extent than clearly - too presumably i must assume they have got been ignored inward the past!

Each creative someone is express ONE ENTRY PER ARTIST.

The function entered
  • SHOULD live on a paradigm based on a sitting or report from life.  You demand to signal on the shape whether or non you lot have got met the sitter.
  • AND the human figure MUST predominate.
  • MUST live on available for the menstruum of the exhibition too the tour to ii other venues.
  • the portrait must live on recent ie it MUST have got been completed afterwards 1 Jan 2012
    • you are asked to confirm the start date.  This needs to pre-date the completion date (latter was novel final year.  I remember this is an expanse where entries have got been caught out inward the past)
    • must NOT live on a function previously submitted for consideration.   I'm guessing some artists have got been reckoning on the jury changing every year.  The reality is (1) records are kept of who enters what (2) some jurors are e'er on the jury
  • Media too Size:
    • MUST live on predominantly painted inward oil, tempera or acrylic (No watercolours, plant on newspaper or pastels volition live on considered - although I am soundless lobbying for pastels to live on admitted at some point!)
    • MUST live on on a stretcher or board, preferably framed too unglazed. 
    • MUST live on bigger than 25 x 20cm (10” x 8”) unframed. Smaller plant volition non live on considered.
    • MUST live on smaller than 244 x 244cm (96" x 96") framed (including the frame).  The size boundary was presumably generated yesteryear i of the shortlisted plant inward 2011.  Multi-part portraits are considered equally i function too besides require  clear instructions equally to installation.
The rules - submission summary
  • Entry forms too registration fees must live on submitted to the NPG yesteryear eleven Feb 2013
  • All entrants volition live on notified if their function is selected (or not) for exhibition yesteryear Midweek 27 March 2013
  • There are lots of really detailed requirements equally to submission too collection of the actual paradigm - I've summarised some of these below but at that topographic point is to a greater extent than too my advice is to read it all really carefully!
  • All artists volition demand to insure their works
  • International artists should besides pay exceptional attending to their fiscal liabilities (eg import duties etc) too what they are required to do.
  • The Gallery is non responsible for wrapping plant or providing wrapping materials to render plant - (unless agreed too a fee paid  - but this applies to international entrants only)
  • All correspondence amongst artists volition live on via email!
  • The creative someone is responsible for checking their e-mail to run into whether your artwork has been selected or rejected.
  • The National Portrait Gallery volition non accommodate courier collections or post plant on behalf of the artist.
  • There are detailed weather condition relating to copyright too publication which all entrants should read.
Delivery Dates

Paintings delivered to the National Portrait Gallery volition NOT live on accepted. The Gallery uses a collection dot which is NOT the gallery.

Regional Collection Points:
The NPG volition no longer organise regional collection points inside the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland inward 2013.  This is rather strange equally other competitions have got been getting ameliorate at organising regional collection points too have got seen the number of entries from regional artists increment significantly equally a result.  This twelvemonth I facial expression entries from United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland artists volition REDUCE unless some enterprising courier job solid decided to organise regional collection.  Particularly given the ruling close packaging for the render journeying (see below)
The logistical too administrative implications of making the regional collections are no longer sustainable for us too nosotros experience that our focus needs to live on on i cardinal delivery dot right away that nosotros have got increased entries from unopen to the world. The Gallery does recognise the commitment shown yesteryear artists from unopen to the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland too internationally too nosotros really much appreciate the attempt taken to submit work. The Gallery remains committed to ensuring that artists from all regions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland are able to move into the contest so delight exercise larn inward touching on if nosotros tin offering whatever advice on how to deliver/ship your work. The delivery address volition live on located centrally inward London too confirmed via e-mail at the fourth dimension of entry into the competition.
Delivery Dates - Hand delivery inward someone to London Collection Point

Paintings demand to live on delivered to a cardinal collection on the specific dates listed on the website - at the fourth dimension specified. 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Gallery representative volition furnish a receipt on delivery of the work. Dates for deliveries are
  • For plant arriving yesteryear post or courier:
    • Monday 4 March – Th fourteen March, 09.00–17.00 (excluding weekends)
  • For plant delivered inward person:
    • Monday eleven too Tuesday 12 March, 09.00–17.00
    • Wednesday thirteen March and Thursday fourteen March, 09.00–20.00
    • No entries volition live on accepted at the London collection dot afterwards 20.00 on Th fourteen March 2012.
Interestingly the Gallery are making a really clear distinction betwixt dissimilar entrants equally to what happens re the packaging for entries

  • UK entrants - plant that are hand-delivered MUST live on costless of packaging / packing for plant delivered yesteryear post or courier volition NOT live on retained 
  • International Entrants - tin live on delivered yesteryear courier / packaging volition live on retained too reused / accuse volition live on made if packaging cannot live on reused
UK ENTRANTS
  • Entries that are manus delivered should live on left without whatever protective packaging equally this cannot live on retained.
  • Deliveries yesteryear post volition live on accepted inward suitable packaging.
  • The Gallery volition non live on responsible for wrapping plant or providing wrapping materials for whatever plant beingness returned.
INTERNATIONAL ENTRANTS
  • Artists non residing inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland must accommodate too pay for delivery of their function to the London collection dot on the allocated dates.If plant are beingness shipped yesteryear courier, artists must choose total responsibleness for all costs, including whatever import customs charges too duties. It is the artist’s responsibleness to banking company check amongst their courier society that their paintings have got cleared customs too have got been delivered on the allocated dates.
  • International entries volition live on re-packaged inward the master copy packaging. It is the artist’s responsibleness to accommodate too pay for collection of their plant from the London collection dot on the allocated dates.
  • If the master copy packaging is no longer suitable for use, nosotros tin furnish packaging materials but at that topographic point volition live on an additional accuse for this service.
Return of function non selected: All unselected plant must live on collected from the address to which they were originally delivered on the dates listed inward the rules, during the times specified. Works cannot live on returned to a dissimilar collection point. Works non collected from the collection points yesteryear the dates specified volition live on charged for at the carrier's park storage rates.

Note also
The National Portrait Gallery reserves the correct to dispose of or destroy whatever function non collected afterwards i calendar month of the latest engagement for collection of unexhibited plant or exhibited works.
Damage too Artist's Insurance

Read this i carefully.  Basically it agency fifty-fifty if somebody other than the creative someone damages the entry too so they are NOT liable to you lot for whatever loss or damage.  If it's a portrait of value to you, you lot must accommodate insurance at your ain cost.
The responsibleness for harm or loss, nonetheless caused, is the responsibleness of the artist. Artists are thence advised to accommodate adequate insurance encompass against such risks. The sponsor, the carriers, the collection point, the touring venues, whatever other subcontractor or the National Portrait Gallery shall non live on liable for whatever loss or damage, whether or non caused yesteryear their negligence.
Want to know to a greater extent than close the BP Portrait Award ?

For those wanting to expose out to a greater extent than close artists who have got won this accolade inward the past, my data site Portraiture - Resources for Artists right away includes a module which provides a consummate listing of all the BP Portrait Award winners - too so too now.

This department of the website lists:
  • links to the paradigm which won the offset prize inward the BP Portrait Awards (if available - for some argue the NPG website seems to failed to archive some of the exhibitions too winners) and 
  • the winning artist's electrical current website (if available).You tin besides expose out to a greater extent than close yesteryear competitions inward my posts from previous years detailed below 
More close the BP Portrait Award 2012

These are my posts close the 2011 BP Portrait Award
Bookmark this weblog if you lot desire to run into futurity weblog posts close the BP Portrait Award

In the future I volition publish:
  • a reminder close the deadline for entries 
  • the listing of artists selected for the exhibition 
  • the listing of shortlisted artists 
  • the awards ceremony 
  • a video of the exhibition 
These are all posts for before exhibitions on Making Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Mark. You tin expose links to all posts on Portraiture - Resources for Artists

BP Portrait Award 2011
BP Portrait Award 2010
BP Portrait Award 2009

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