Threadneedle Prize 2012: The Making A Order Direct Six
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For the in conclusion ii years, I've created my ain personal shortlist after announcing the shortlisted artists (see Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Artists) and reviewing the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition (see Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012).
This twelvemonth I've also identified below who I intend volition win the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize 2012 - together with the £10,000 Visitors' Choice Prize.
Let me know by leaving a comment below:
The Making H5N1 Mark Select Six 2012
Here's my criteria for selecting work. I similar plant which are:
The links inwards the artists' names are to their websites, if they receive got one, where you lot tin run across to a greater extent than of their work. I've included below roughly to a greater extent than data nigh both the creative mortal together with their art.
This year, I've ordered the function inwards my personal guild of preference.
1. Lino Man past times Ben Hendy
This is a shortlisted function and I intend this is the winner.
For a human being to prepare a nude self-portrait is real odd - to prepare a total life-size self-portrait is ambitious together with brave.
To also practise it as a lino-cut fine fine art impress is exactly but audacious. I've never seen 1 before together with I doubtfulness I volition always again.
To together with so honor that the technique used is real fine is a consummate pleasure.
There's exactly the pocket-size number of where my human face upward was every fourth dimension I looked at it! I intend I'd receive got dropped it nigh a human foot or so.
Interestingly - the fact that this is a lino-cut impress prompts the enquiry of whether or non the contest is express to ikon together with sculpture - together with the organisers powerfulness desire to ponder on that description.
2. Dreaming 2 by David Firmstone
This is a shortlisted work. I also intend it has a real skillful run a jeopardy of winning the overstep prize.
You can't ignore this piece. It absolutely dominates the whole of the West Gallery. It's absolutely huge - but it doesn't shout. It's exactly at that topographic point - inwards the same means as landscape is there.
The argue I actually similar it is because the reach of the persuasion together with the patterning inside it actually appeal to me (my start marking is in geography!) . It's the means I run across landscape - together with when somebody paints the means I run across things at that topographic point is an inevitable connection. (I receive got a portfolio devoted to what I telephone telephone "Views together with Vistas" - which is essentially nigh finding the patterning inwards the land")"
I also actually similar the fact that the calorie-free is depression together with the shadows are long together with the color inside the slice is real controlled together with real nearly monochromatic.
This slice also makes me intend of the peace together with tranquillity of the countryside.
More nigh the Threadneedle Prize
For to a greater extent than nigh the Threadneedle Prize 2012 - together with the Prize inwards before years - run across my before posts (and images) below
2012 Threadneedle Prize
This twelvemonth I've also identified below who I intend volition win the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize 2012 - together with the £10,000 Visitors' Choice Prize.
Let me know by leaving a comment below:
- what you lot intend nigh my choice
- how you lot direct fine art that you lot similar inwards an exhibition
- Do locomote out a comment together with permit me know what you lot would receive got chosen.
The Making H5N1 Mark Select Six 2012
Here's my criteria for selecting work. I similar plant which are:
- visually pleasing to me together with which stimulate my encephalon cells
- catch my oculus together with depict me towards them together with and so locomote along to involvement me as I larn upward unopen (ie the blueprint plant together with the technique is good)
- PLUS - brand me write downwards the advert of the creative mortal so that I tin review their website when I larn home.
In consequence I'm playing the share of an interested buyer!
The links inwards the artists' names are to their websites, if they receive got one, where you lot tin run across to a greater extent than of their work. I've included below roughly to a greater extent than data nigh both the creative mortal together with their art.
This year, I've ordered the function inwards my personal guild of preference.
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| Ben Hendy - Self Portrait (section) Linocut, 97x227cm, £1200 |
This is a shortlisted function and I intend this is the winner.
For a human being to prepare a nude self-portrait is real odd - to prepare a total life-size self-portrait is ambitious together with brave.
To also practise it as a lino-cut fine fine art impress is exactly but audacious. I've never seen 1 before together with I doubtfulness I volition always again.
To together with so honor that the technique used is real fine is a consummate pleasure.
There's exactly the pocket-size number of where my human face upward was every fourth dimension I looked at it! I intend I'd receive got dropped it nigh a human foot or so.
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| Lino Man past times Ben Hendy inwards the Threadneedle Space |
2. Dreaming 2 by David Firmstone
This is a shortlisted work. I also intend it has a real skillful run a jeopardy of winning the overstep prize.
You can't ignore this piece. It absolutely dominates the whole of the West Gallery. It's absolutely huge - but it doesn't shout. It's exactly at that topographic point - inwards the same means as landscape is there.
The argue I actually similar it is because the reach of the persuasion together with the patterning inside it actually appeal to me (my start marking is in geography!) . It's the means I run across landscape - together with when somebody paints the means I run across things at that topographic point is an inevitable connection. (I receive got a portfolio devoted to what I telephone telephone "Views together with Vistas" - which is essentially nigh finding the patterning inwards the land")"
I also actually similar the fact that the calorie-free is depression together with the shadows are long together with the color inside the slice is real controlled together with real nearly monochromatic.
This slice also makes me intend of the peace together with tranquillity of the countryside.
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| David Firmstone - Dreaming 2, Oil on Canvas, 240x180cm £20,000 |
I explore high perspectives of fields, quarries, ravines together with riverbeds. I'm keen to run across the solid reason from farther together with farther away together with to play amongst spatial relationships, which is why I taste working large scale, it offers an fifty-fifty bigger playground.
3. String II by Tim Pomeroy
It's alone possible that I similar this function because I've of late been drawing from a spot nigh xxx feet to the left of this ikon (see Greenwich Park Panorama).
There again, this is roughly other creative mortal who I experience a connexion amongst - because he chooses to expect at together with pigment the same things I similar to draw. I honor it real odd that when I see his website I immediately recognise all the places inwards London that he's painted. This has never happened before. Maybe this creative mortal "sees" places that I depict inwards the same means I practise - albeit his fantastical / 'magical realism' means of ikon is his own?
The function itself is a lot bigger together with you lot tin run across a much amend version of The Observatory on his website.
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| Tim Pomeroy - String II, Carrara marble, 50x25cm, £8000 |
I dear this piece. String II is the only slice I actually wanted to accept dwelling theatre amongst me - if for no other argue that the size presented less of a occupation than most!
I would all the same receive got a fleck of a struggle on my hands inwards moving it as it's made of Carrara Marble addition it's also a tad on the pricey side together with therefore a fleck beyond my budget.
Scottish creative mortal together with sculptor Tim Pomeroy made this slice together with his website is total of as simple/complex forms.
For me this pillar seemed to cause a contemplative mood every fourth dimension I looked at it. I could good imagine it inwards a identify which was minimal together with designed for meditation.
There's a rather amend paradigm on the website from a unlike angle.
For me this pillar seemed to cause a contemplative mood every fourth dimension I looked at it. I could good imagine it inwards a identify which was minimal together with designed for meditation.
There's a rather amend paradigm on the website from a unlike angle.
4. One of Every Species establish inwards Hong Kong cage, past times Fran Giffard
I got to run across an of this function upward unopen early as Fran sent me an paradigm of it afterwards I published the listing of selected artists
This function is inwards pencil together with she plant a lot inwards graphite. However her technique is most odd - curt horizontal lines repeated over together with over - together with makes the function a lot to a greater extent than interesting as a result.
Hong Kong is exactly of her portfolios of drawings on her website. She's drawn an absolutely huge number of birds which perhaps accounts for her fine concern human relationship of how they look.
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Fran Giffard - One of Every Species establish inwards Hong Kong cage Graphite Pencil on Paper, 110x80cm £1,500 |
Fran also had artwork selected this twelvemonth for both
- BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year for the slice below - which is roughly other paradigm from her Hong Kong series; and
- David Shepherd's Wildlife Artist of the Year - for Four Birds came to London
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| Artwork past times Fran Gifford selected for BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year. |
5. The Observatory - David Piddick
It's alone possible that I similar this function because I've of late been drawing from a spot nigh xxx feet to the left of this ikon (see Greenwich Park Panorama).
There again, this is roughly other creative mortal who I experience a connexion amongst - because he chooses to expect at together with pigment the same things I similar to draw. I honor it real odd that when I see his website I immediately recognise all the places inwards London that he's painted. This has never happened before. Maybe this creative mortal "sees" places that I depict inwards the same means I practise - albeit his fantastical / 'magical realism' means of ikon is his own?
The function itself is a lot bigger together with you lot tin run across a much amend version of The Observatory on his website.
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David Piddock - The Observatory (section) Oil on gesso board, 59x240cm, £19,000 |
What I liked nigh it was the fact that it's a figurative ikon - amongst figures(!) - together with yet is distinctly odd together with slightly edgy. To all intents together with purposes the scene is 1 which is mutual during the 24-hour interval - together with yet it seems to live inwards moonlight. The perspective is handled masterfully - I suspect at that topographic point may receive got been roughly assist from a fish-eye lens at roughly point.
I also similar it when artists pigment inwards panoramic formats so that 1 gets a much amend feel of place. Not an slow ikon to hang - but 1 which volition vantage the mortal who does.
6. The in conclusion work: There were several unopen contenders for the in conclusion spot. I've decided to listing those inwards the running rather than to brand a in conclusion decision
- Planar Resonance - Ilse Black, Graphite powder, pencil, charcoal on paper, 100cm x 78cm, £2500
- Nudia 2 Elichi Fukuda, Sumi-ink,Acrylic,paper on Canvas, 76×51cm, £900
- Winter Sunlight, Adelburgh - Peter Kelly, Oil on Canvas, 44x34 cms, £3000
- Painting from Light - Luis Kerch, Acrylic on Linen, 100x180cm, £4000
- Mello Yello No.1- Yuichiro Kikuma, Acrylic on MDF, 15x17cm, £390
Visitor's Choice Award
There was 1 slice which attracted a lot of comment on the Preview nighttime - together with prior to the statement was suggested past times roughly to live a certainty as a shortlisted piece
To my heed it would almost for sure receive got been shortlisted had it non been for the nature of the support. I liked the function a lot together with I hated the support.
There was 1 slice which attracted a lot of comment on the Preview nighttime - together with prior to the statement was suggested past times roughly to live a certainty as a shortlisted piece
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Robert Truscott - Defeat, Mixed Media, Plaster, Epoxy Putty, Material on Armature, 367x167x49cm, £30,000 |
The diagonal brackets compete for attending together with the function itself does non appear to live fixed inwards whatever means to the support. The contrast betwixt the plane of endeavor which had gone into the function itself together with the back upward it sat on was far also peachy for my liking. I become dorsum to the commentary inwards the introduction to the Exhibition inwards the catalogue which I referenced yesterday in Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012 - the character of complete is important.
That said, Robert Truscott's achievement is significant. The figures are amazing. It reminds me somewhat of John Singer Sargent's ikon 'Gassed' - of start basis state of war soldiers who receive got been blinded when gassed. By means of contrast these are prisoners of war leaving Stalingrad en road to the Soviet gulag
Robert Truscott graduated from Winchester School of Art inwards 1995 together with from the Russian Academy of Arts inwards St Petersburg inwards 2000. He has exhibited inwards Winchester Cathedral amongst plant representing the exodus of prisoners from the VI Army at Stalingrad.Beaulieu Fine Arts
You tin run across to a greater extent than of Robert's function when constructing this slice on his weblog - together with you lot tin run across a video of this slice on YouTube
For to a greater extent than nigh the Threadneedle Prize 2012 - together with the Prize inwards before years - run across my before posts (and images) below
2012 Threadneedle Prize
- Call for Entries for £30000 Threadneedle Prize 2012 03 Mar 2012
- Threadneedle Prize 2012: Analysis of entries / selected artists fourteen Jun 2012
- Threadneedle Prize 2012: names of selected artists 21 Aug 2012 - this includes links to the websites of selected artists
- Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Exhibition at nowadays Online
- Threadneedle Prize 2012 - Shortlisted Artists
- Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012
2011 Threadneedle Prize
Exhibition
- Threadneedle Prize 2011 - a novel selection process 26 April 2011
- Shortlist for Threadneedle Prize 2011 dominated ...08 Sep 2011
- Threadneedle Prize: The Making a Mark Select ...26 Sep 2011
- Review: Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2011 22 Sep 2011
- Henriette Simson wins Threadneedle Prize 2011 06 October 2011
Exhibition
- Threadneedle Prize | Mall Galleries, 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD Tel: 44 (0) xx 7930 6844 threadneedleprize@mallgalleries.com
- Directions to Mall Galleries
- Mall Galleries | The Mall, London SW1 | Tel: 020 7930 6844 |info@mallgalleries.com
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