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Shortlist For £30,000 Bp Portrait Abide By 2015 Announced

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More than 2,748 portraits from a tape 92 countries were digitally submitted for consideration past times the Judges of the BP Portrait Award 2015.

Just 3 possess got been shortlisted for the £30,000 First Prize - as well as you lot tin encounter them below. The portraits as well as artists are:
I possess got to tell having seen the high resolution images, my coin is real definitely on Michael Gaskell - non to the lowest degree because:
  • he's been selected 5 times, shortlisted 3 times as well as and runner upwardly twice as well as I can't believe they'd endure then savage as to select him in i trial again as well as brand him the runner-up again!
  • it's the best icon I've seen him do - the technical expertise used is impeccable as well as the portrait itself is absolutely stunning.
Below you lot tin honour out about:
  • the prizes on offering - those selected already know they've won at to the lowest degree £8k!
  • more almost the artists - as well as encounter the images shortlisted.

Tomorrow I volition endure highlighting the 55 selected artists whose move has been selected for the exhibition. The portraits selected for the exhibition volition endure on show at the BP Portrait Award 2015 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from eighteen June to xx September 2015 as well as volition tour subsequently.


Prizes on offer

The winners  of the prizes volition endure announced soon earlier the opening of the exhibition to the world inwards June
  • The First Prize is £30,000 addition a committee worth £5,000 to paint a portrait for the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. The champaign of report of the committee is agreed
    betwixt the Gallery as well as the artist.
  • The Second Prize winner receives £10,000 
  • The Third Prize winner received £8,000. 
  • There is likewise a BP Young Artist Award of £7,000 for the move of an entrant aged betwixt eighteen as well as 30.

Shortlisted Portraits as well as Artists


Annabelle as well as Guy past times Matan Ben Cnaan

Annabelle as well as Guy by Matan Ben Cnaan
1200 x 1300mm, oil on board
Copyright: Matan Ben Cnaan
Age: 35 years one-time (born 23.04.1980)
Nationality: Israeli - he comes from the due north of Israel
Occupation: a contemporary Israeli painter
Current home: Emek-Jezreel, Israel
Art education: studied fine arts at Haifa University
Previous appearances inwards this award: None
Subject: his friend Guy as well as step-daughter Annabelle. However the portrait is an allegory.
In my move I report as well as capture the local Israeli amongst a non-romantic yet sentimental view. The province as well as its people partake as inwards my catch of today’s Israel.... Politics as good as Historical as well as Biblical themes are for me similar the mythological as well as religious inspirations for the Old Masters creations.
He's used 2 friends as models for allegorical painting. The allegory inwards his icon relates to the biblical storey of Jephthah. This is the human who vowed to God that if his side is victorious inwards the battle amongst the Ammonites, he volition sacrifice the kickoff affair that greets him upon his home-coming. The convention is that it's assumed this would endure his dog. However his fille gets at that spot kickoff as well as Jepthah realises what an awful mistka ehe has made - only nonethless upholds his vow as well as sacrifices his child.
‘Unified past times the blinding light, all the objects inwards the icon exhibit move one. The tension imminent inwards the instant of realisation of the horrible cost i must pay is reflected inwards the composition. The petroleum wall as well as rugged gravel echo the grittiness as well as grief inwards Guy's (Jephthah's) character, whilst the fig tree, casting an ominous shadow, presages Annabelle’s fate. Her potent posture reflects her ain resolve as well as her role, inwards both the biblical storey as well as inwards Guy’s life, inwards carrying his burdens as well as misfortune. Being no to a greater extent than than a child, Annabelle attempts to procedure her tragic fate’.

Eliza past times Michael Gaskell

Eliza by Michael Gaskell
(370 x 270mm, acrylic on board)
Copyright: Michael Gaskell
I've met Michael Gaskell twice. That's because:
  • he has been selected for BP Portrait Award exhibitions 5 times (1999, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2010) 
  • he's been commended twice (1999 as well as 2001); and 
  • on 3 occasions his portrait has taken the 2d prize (in 2003, 2009, 2010).
  • he's already been commissioned past times the NPG to pigment portraits for its collection (a portrait of climate scientist Sir James Lovelock)
All I volition tell is that it's non odd for the portrait which wins First Prize to possess got an creative mortal who has a goodness tape at BP Portrait Prize - as well as Michael fits that brief ameliorate than anyone else I know - see BP Portrait Award: Michael Gaskell's unparalled record)

This fourth dimension he has painted his entry inwards acrylic rather than the egg tempera that he real oftentimes uses. The attending to colour, note as well as texture is absolutely unbelievable - every warp as well as weft inwards the fine linen of the bluish shirt is visible. The handling of flesh as well as its blemishes is absolutely superb. More importantly still, the portrait is arresting.

What's likewise real interesting is that this year, Michael has submitted a larger icon (approximately twice the size of ones he has submitted inwards 2009 as well as 2010).

I'm thinking this volition hateful the icon offers a ameliorate 'presence' as well as likewise conforms rather closer to the kind of size of portrait that the NPG likes to possess got inwards its collection. Maybe this volition do the play a joke on as well as enable him to convert a magnificent runway tape into a First Prize this year. I know a lot of people volition endure real pleased if that happens - non to the lowest degree Michael!

Age: born 1963
Nationality: British - he comes from Sheffield
Occupation: a contemporary British artist
Current home: he forthwith lives inwards Leicester
Art education: studied at St Helen’s College of Art as well as Design as well as Coventry Polytechnic
Previous appearances inwards this award: selected 5 times, shortlisted 3 times; won 2d prize twice
Website: http://matanbencnaan.com
Subject: His niece Eliza historic menses fourteen (She kickoff sat for him as a pocket-size kid - only that icon has non yet been completed!)
I promise this icon conveys a feel of Eliza’s growing confidence as she develops into a adult woman only retains some of the self-consciousness which was likewise acquaint at the time.’
The move has been primarily influenced past times Michael's report of the portraits of the keen fifteenth century  Dutch painter Hans Memling (c. 1430 - 1494) who followed on from van Eyck. (You tin see paintings past times Memling here). His report of Memling was triggered past times a committee to create a icon for an Americna collector as well as fan of Memling.

My Mother as well as My Brother on a Lord's Day Evening past times Borja Buces Renard

My Mother as well as My Brother on a Lord's Day Evening past times Borja Buces Renard
1500 x 2000mm, oil on canvas
Copyright: Borja Buces Renard
Age: historic menses 36, born 1978
Nationality: Spanish
Occupation: Artist
Current home: industrial plant as well as lives betwixt Madrid, Kingdom of Spain as well as Florida, USA
Art education:  ?
Previous appearances inwards this award: None
Website: http://www.renard.es
Subject: his woman rear Paloma as well as his blood brother Jaime - painted inwards the living room of his parents’ trouble solid on a typical Lord's Day when the household unit of measurement would get together as well as talk

The icon has forms dissolving on the edges as well as is influenced past times the progressively debilitating illness of his manly mortal rear who died a few weeks after it was finished. The affliction accounts for his absence from the icon as well as his decease is why the portrait is dedicated to his manly mortal rear Jose Antonio, as well as to his woman rear Paloma.
‘Making this weekly effect like shooting fish in a barrel disappear, I wanted to portray this emotion inwards my paintingwith the epitome of my manly mortal rear missing as well as that hard fourth dimension for all of us, peculiarly for my mum whom had dedicated herself to taking tending of him. Our living room, inwards which nosotros all spent many evenings together was the identify that would best capture that moment. I had painted my mother, manly mortal rear as well as blood brother many other times on that same couch, then I was pretty certain almost how I wanted to usage the lite as well as colour’. 
Other than that, it seems to me that his icon is a classical practise inwards the golden ratio. Just expect at where the eyes are as well as how the principal horizontals as well as verticals bisect the portrait

Judges

The contest was judged from master paintings by:
  • Pim Baxter, Chair of Judges as well as Acting Director at the fourth dimension of judging, National Portrait Gallery;
  • Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery;
  • Kim Mawhinney, Head of Art, National Museums Northern Ireland;
  • Peter Monkman, Artist;
  • Simon Schama, Historian; and
  • Des Violaris, Director, Britain Arts & Culture, BP.

More almost the BP Portrait Award


I'll endure writing later inwards the calendar week to comment on the tape numbers who entered this twelvemonth as well as how digital submission changed the profile of the entry.

BP Portrait Award - previous years

I've been roofing the BP Portrait Award for some years as well as possess got an extensive archive of posts relating to previous competitions which I know are much studied past times those contemplating an entry! :)

Entry for the 2016 BP Portrait Award opens inwards Nov 2016.

The Shortlist

BP Portrait Award 2015

BP Portrait Award 2014

BP Portrait Award 2013

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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