This post service highlights the prizewinners at the
124th Annual Exhibition of the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters. I'll hold upward writing to a greater extent than virtually the exhibition on Saturday.
The Private View equally per commons was packed. If anything I'd tell at that topographic point were fifty-fifty to a greater extent than people than usual.
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The PrivateView
There are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than people inwards the other galleries as well as waiting outside! |
H5N1 few brief words virtually the exhibition to start. It's rattling good hung - I get together a novel hanging squad guide maintain taken upward the challenge of producing a proficient looking exhibition. The Conversations as well as Peoples choice exhibition inwards the Threadneedle infinite looks peculiarly good.
The only affair which puzzled me was why the commencement icon I'd always seen inwards the Mall Galleries priced at £100,000 was inwards the North Gallery. It's a rattling proficient portrait past times
Jennifer Anderson of the electrical flow Director of the British Museum as well as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum inwards New York. Even to a greater extent than puzzling is why it's listed equally £100,000 on the wall of the North Gallery (middle room), a "publicly commissioned work" on her website as well as equally Not For Sale on the Mall Galleries website. Which is it? Has somebody confused value alongside price?
The exhibition opens to the populace on Th 16th Apr as well as continues until the 1st May 2015 at the Mall Galleries. Catalogues are £10 as well as admission is £3 as well as £2.50 concession. Free to
Friends of Mall Galleries, National Art Pass holders as well as nether 18s
The Prizewinners
Some £35,000 inwards laurels coin was distributed during the prizegiving ceremony due to some generous sponsorship. There are 3 build novel prizes this twelvemonth - as well as ane of them was my idea!
The Seven Investment Management £15,000 'Conversations' Prize
The 'Conversations Prize is awarded for the best operate interpreting the theme of a conversation piece, including ii or to a greater extent than figures.
John Wonnacott CBW RP celebrated his 70th birthday alongside a banking corporation tally for £15,000 equally the winner of the Conversations Prize inwards its initiatory year.
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John Wonnacott alongside his painting
Ian as well as Lois, the White Slip
Oil, 225 cm x 135 cm |
The icon which won the prize is a committee as well as is called
Ian as well as Lois, The White Slip. Ian, the The gentleman inwards the painting, has sat for a position out of portraits alongside a sitting ane time a calendar week as well as he as well as John know each other rattling well. The adult woman inwards the icon is his married adult woman Lois. The background includes a rattling large icon John was working on. Plus a position out of mirrors prepare to create a to a greater extent than interesting background - you lot run into the backs equally good equally the front end of the yoke - summation John himself sat inwards a chair inwards front end of his easel. It's a fascinating icon - it's a lilliputian chip similar a puzzle alongside a chip of Van Eyck thrown in.
I asked John what he intended to pass the coin on. John told me that he'd latterly had to pass a lot of coin having his garage rebuilt equally this is where he stores his paintings (he to a greater extent than oft than non has around xx on the larn at whatsoever ane time) and, equally it happened the operate had cost £15,000 as well as the prize coin way he has prissy novel watertight storage at absolutely no cost!
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| The Seven Investment Management £15,000 'Conversations' PrizeThe winning icon (right) alongside the runner upward (left) |
Note: The prize is genuinely my idea! It started a yoke of years agone when I all of a abrupt realised that virtually the paintings I saw inwards portrait exhibitions were singleton portraits as well as some of those were oft merely the head. It seemed to me that at that topographic point was some meaning deskilling going on when ane compared portrait paintings today alongside paintings inwards the past times when icon people inwards a grouping was something which was much to a greater extent than mutual than it seems to hold upward today. An exhibition I saw prompted the notion inwards my caput that the way to larn people icon portraits of groups of people was to focus on the notion of the conversation slice as well as to guide maintain a rather large prize equally an added incentive! So I started talking to people virtually it - as well as talked to the people at the NPG re. the BP Portrait Award equally good equally people at the Mall Galleries as well as the RP. I had inwards heed a lilliputian good for you lot competition! I was convinced ane of them would run into the wisdom of stretching artists to create to a greater extent than interesting portraits. Plus of course of didactics it expands the reach for to a greater extent than portrait commissions! I'm rattling pleased past times the calibre of the paintings selected for the exhibition - I'd hold upward rattling surprised if they don't generate a few commissions! I'd peculiarly similar to give cheers the Mall Galleries as well as the RP for running alongside the persuasion as well as Seven Management for providing the sponsorship - it's absolutely fantastic to run into my persuasion come upward to fruition! The £10,000 Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture as well as the RP Gold Medal
for the most distinguished prize inwards the exhibition
The Alchemy of Oil Painting alongside Miriam Escofet.
I was peculiarly impressed past times the hands she painted inwards some other nearby icon that she likewise did.
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| Detail of Kathryn as well as Milo past times Miriam Escofet |
£1,000 prize is for a portrait inwards which architectural or interior features play an of import part.
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| Living Room alongside Lamps past times Tom Hughes |
This was won past times a rattling prissy icon called Living Room alongside Lamps by Tom Hughes. Interestingly equally before long equally I saw the "Indoors" department of his website I knew who he was. He's a prolific as well as accomplished painter.
This is
his blog - definitely worth a read.
The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards with The Arts Club
£1,000 to the most deserving creative somebody inwards the exhibition, equally judged past times a representative from the Charitable Trust.
Awarded jointly to
Emma Hopkins and
Claire Anscomb
Previous post: the minute prize inwards the Derwent Art Prize inwards 2014.
Brian is a immature Australian creative somebody who lives inwards Sweden as well as is latterly divorced. The latter condition is rattling relevant to the icon equally it's a portrait an older yoke as well as interestingly it's non a portrait from life as well as is only imaginary. In this instance, inwards trial it's a portrait of how Brian wants to hold upward when he's older - yet loving a partner.
"It's a icon of me when I'm old"
Brian told me that he starts past times making marks as well as the persuasion for the icon develops out of this. His recent divorce influenced the topic for the icon as well as it reflects his certainty of where he volition hold upward inwards the future
He intends to pass his £10,000 prize coin on continuing to invest inwards his career.
Brian has exhibited extensively inwards Sweden as well as is currently looking for a suitable gallery to correspond him inwards the UK.
The de Laszlo Foundation Prize
£3,000 summation a Silver Medal for the most outstanding portrait past times an creative somebody aged 35 years or under
Lorna May Wadsworth won both the De Lazlo Prize as well as a newly created prize of Runner Up for the
The Seven Investment Management £15,000 'Conversations' Prize. I loved the concept as well as championship of this slice
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| They Have Lunch Every Tuesday past times Lorna May Wadsworth |
The Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing
£2,000 as well as framed certificate for a portrait inwards whatsoever recognised drawing medium
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| Sammy G past times Jason Bowyer |
This laurels was won past times
Jason Bowyer RP PPNEAC PS who dedicated the prize to his father, the painter William Bowyer, who died a few weeks ago
£2,000 committee to attain a portrait of a somebody alongside a disfigurement for the Changing Faces collection
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| Paulina past times Hero Johnson |
Hero Johnson is the PR as well as Marketing Manager at The Heatherley School of Fine Art equally good equally existence a figurative creative somebody as well as a filmmaker. She was invited to demo operate past times Jason Bowyer.
£2,000 as well as framed certificate for the most classically inspired portrait inwards the exhibition.
This laurels was won past times an incredible refined rendering of a adult woman called
Shubha by
Miriam Escofet This is an article from the Heatherley's weblog called virtually a novel course of didactics which she is teaching -
The Alchemy of Oil Painting alongside Miriam Escofet.
I was peculiarly impressed past times the hands she painted inwards some other nearby icon that she likewise did.
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| Detail of Kathryn as well as Milo past times Miriam Escofet |
£1,000 prize is for a portrait inwards which architectural or interior features play an of import part.
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| Living Room alongside Lamps past times Tom Hughes |
This was won past times a rattling prissy icon called
Living Room alongside Lamps by
Tom Hughes. Interestingly equally before long equally I saw
the "Indoors" department of his website I knew who he was. He's a prolific as well as accomplished painter.
This is
his blog - definitely worth a read.
The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award inwards association inwards with The Arts Club
£1,000 to the most deserving creative somebody inwards the exhibition, equally judged past times a representative from the Charitable Trust.
Awarded jointly to
Emma Hopkins and
Claire Anscomb
This laurels was won past times an incredible refined rendering of a adult woman called Shubha by Miriam Escofet
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