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BP Portrait Award - Shortlisted artists as well as paintings

The four artists shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2012 at the National Portrait Gallery inward London are:
    This twelvemonth is (I think) the showtime time, since the historic catamenia restrict was lifted, that 3 of the artists whose move has been selected are nether the historic catamenia of 30.

    I withdraw hold the exercise goodness of beingness able to accees the high res images - although these are non reproduced on this weblog - I've merely posted depression res!

    Having studied all 4 I intend the winner volition move Aleah Chapin.  Reasons beingness because of the nature of the champaign of written report as well as sheer "grab your optic as well as maintain it" of its composition, its size summation the painterly character of the brushwork as well as utilization of palette.  She paints older peel with bravado as well as huge skill.  Her porfolio of move from her serial of nude portraits older women are stunning.

    She's also a blogger! (see below)


    by Aleah Chapin, 2011
    fossil oil on canvass 1470 x 965 mm
    © Aleah Chapin
    Aleah Chapin 
    Auntie 

    Age: 26
    Nationality: American (Seattle)
    Current home: Brooklyn
    Art education: BFA at Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle (2009); 2011 residency, Leipzig International Art Programme, Germany; MFA inward paradigm at the New York Academy of Art (2012)
    Exibitions: Include solo as well as grouping shows inward the U.S.A. as well as Europe.
    Previous prizes: Posey Foundation Scholarship; Judith Kindler as well as Kyle Johnson Scholarship for Innovation inward the Arts; nominated for the Joan Mitchell MFA Grant
    Website: Aleah Chapin - Artist
    Subject:  a closed friend of the family.  Her portrait is utilization of a series - The Aunties Project - of nude portraits of women Aleah has known all of her life.

    Click the link inward the championship of the paradigm to meet the total portrait (a three-quarter nude).
    ‘the fact that she has known me since nascency is extremely important. Her trunk is a map of her journeying through life. In her, I meet the personification of trace through an unguarded as well as accepting presence.’
    You tin also read her weblog posts most her fourth dimension inward Germany
    Richie Culver
    by Alan Coulson, 2012
    oil on panel, 850 x 590mm
    © Alan Coulson
    Alan Coulson  
    Richie Culver, Contemporary British Artist

    Age: 35
    Nationality: British
    Current home: London
    Art education: Foundation Studies inward Art as well as Design at Harrogate College of Art as well as Design ; self-taught
    Exhibitions: BP Portrait Award 2010 and 2011; Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual exhibition inward 2010, 2011 as well as 2012.
    Website:  Alan Coulson
    Subject:   Richie Culver, a beau creative mortal as well as friend

    Coulson visited Culver at his abode inward due west London where he took informal reference photographs earlier producing preparatory sketches as well as completing the paradigm inward his studio.
    ‘My aim was to create a straight as well as honest paradigm that would capture Richie’s unique appearance amongst his easygoing nature’.
    I'm a large fan of Alan Coulson's work.  This was his sensitive portrait of Ciara selected for the BP Portrait Prize Exhibition 2010.  He's also the merely creative mortal of the 4 with a rails tape of beingness selected (in the final ii years) for the BP Portrait Prize exhibition.

    El abuelo (Augusta Estudillo)
    by Ignacio Estudillo, 2012
    fossil oil on canvas, 2000 x 2000 mm
    © Ignacio Estudillo
    Ignacio Estudillo 
    El abuelo (Agustín Estudillo)

    Age: 26
    Nationality: Castilian (b. Jerez de la Frontera)
    Current home: Córdoba, Spain
    Art education: School of Arts as well as Crafts inward Jerez de la Frontera; Real Academia de Bellas Artes of Seville.
    Exhibitions: ArtMadrid 2011
    Collections: Museu Europeu D’Art Modern, MEAM.
    Subject: His paternal grandfather
    ‘I worked with artificial lite as well as with a chromatic scale, mainly inside the dark as well as white spectrum. I painted the portrait larger than life size but the model was inward a natural position. I made this paradigm because of my grandad as well as his life experiences attracted me. It’s non a purely analytical portrait but it’s a agency of showing a utilization of the human status to which he belongs. At the same fourth dimension I transmit his ain nature as well as my thought of him equally a conflicted, unstable, passionate human. I’m non merely creating a portrait of my grandad but also revealing a utilization of myself.’
    Jamie Routley 
    Tony Lewis

    Age: 29
    Nationality: Welsh - born inward Newport, Wales
    Current home: London
    Art education: BA inward Illustration at Swindon College; studied under American painter Charles H. Cecil inward Florence, Italy 2004-2008
    Exhibitions:  Exhibitions withdraw hold included Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition (2011, 2012) as well as Flowers East Gallery.
    Website: Jamie Routley
    Subject:  Tony Lewis who has a paper stand upwardly at Baron’s Court Tube Station as well as plant inward ‘The Four Vintners’ vino shop.
    Tony Lewisby Jamie Routley, 2012
    fossil oil on canvas, 1250 x 460 mm
    © Jamie Routley
    'I didn't gear upwardly out to pigment a triptych, but I establish after each paradigm at that topographic point was to a greater extent than to say. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 past times had been hinted at during the sittings for the showtime paradigm that I couldn't larn out alone. Tony told me that for the showtime fourth dimension inward decades he'd establish an surround that was both stimulating an allowed for serenity reflection. So nosotros continued... It was an intense as well as profound sense for both of us. '
    BP Portrait Award Competition 2012

    This twelvemonth the open competition for this prestigious prize received 2,187 entries from 74 unlike countries.

    I'll move doing my green analysis of the entry information as well as trends as well as detailing this inward a post tomorrow [UPDATE:  I've spotted a employment with the information as well as demand to banking concern gibe the numbers with the NPG staff - as well as thus this post is at i time on hold].

    The contest was judged from master copy paintings past times this year’s panel:
    • Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London
    • Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Curator as well as Cultural Historian
    • Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery
    • Martin Jennings, Sculptor
    • Nicola Kalinsky, Interim Director, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
    • Des Violaris , Director Great Britain Arts & Culture, BP
    ‘The judges of this year's BP Portrait Award had many outstanding portraits to withdraw from, as well as were greatly impressed past times the increasingly international submission.’Sandy Nairne
    It's interesting to compare this portrait contest with The Archibald Prize inward Australia.  See Tim Storrier wins the $75,000 Archibald Prize 2012

    BP Portrait Exhibition at the NPG as well as other locations

    55 portraits withdraw hold been selected for the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, which opens to Earth on 21 June for twelve weeks until 23 September 2012 at the Wolfson Gallery inward the National Portrait Gallery. The entry is costless due to the back upwardly received from BP.

    This twelvemonth the BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition is utilization of the London 2012 Festival, the spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until ix September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the globe with the real best from the UK.

    Last twelvemonth it was the most pop exhibition inward the museum's history as well as thus exercise mass early on equally at that topographic point are saltation to move lots of extra visitors this twelvemonth with the Olympics as well as the Jubilee celebrations over the summertime months.

    It closes on 23 September at which point the winners as well as selected entries tour to ii other locations.
    Previous weblog posts most the BP Portrait

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

    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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