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Bp Move Laurels 2011: Jo Fraser Travels To Peru

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The Weavers past times Jo Fraser 
BP Travel Award Winner 2011
Every twelvemonth I e'er savor seeing what the BP Travel Award winner from the previous twelvemonth has produced equally a effect of the bursary awarded to the winning proposal.  One of the best aspects is the fact that creative someone is epitome people non unremarkably seen on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery!

BP Travel Award 2011

In 2011, the BP Travel Award was won past times Jo Fraser.  She received a £5,000 bursary for her proposal to go to the Cuzco percentage of Republic of Peru to notice the labour-intensive production of textiles inwards minor indigenous communities.

Her proposal stemmed from her involvement inwards the geometric aesthetic of Andean hand-weaving, the allegorical symbolism within their designs together with the ritualistic purposes for which they are created.
To prepare the trip Jo kickoff made contact the weaving community throughAwamaki, a minor Peruvian non-governmental arrangement (NGO). Awamaki industrial plant to protect the endangered stuff traditions of ii impoverished weaving communities past times providing the woman someone workers with access to a marketplace for their work.

In the Autumn of 2011, Jo travelled to Republic of Peru and lived with an indigenous identify unit of measurement of Quechua weavers inwards the small, mountainous hamlet of Patacancha.  The hamlet is located at 12,600 ft, high inwards the Andean mountains higher upwards Ollantaytambo, inwards the pump of the sacred Patacancha Valley.  The hamlet comprises or hence 250 families, spread over many minor hamlets scattered upwards together with downwards the valley. Their homes are made of adobe bricks (made of clay, sand together with straw), together with stimulate got grass-thatched roofs. The women occupation ancient techniques to weave, spin together with dye using natural pigments. The women belong to the Patacancha weaving association.

She developed the crude epitome you lot come across above. It was developed from sketches together with photographs taken during her visit. The subjects are shown sitting inwards an arc, equally she wanted to propose that the viewer was sitting inwards on the daily occasion of their weaving. Originally the portrait was to go laid inwards the hamlet itself, but afterwards ii months Jo began in ane lawsuit to a greater extent than together with decided instead to pigment the weavers against what she saw equally the timeless together with epic dynamic of the mountains where they live.
"I flora it incredibly slowly to photograph the women, equally they naturally ignored my camera, neither changing their behavior for the lens nor shying away from it. For a portrait creative someone it was fantastic. Living inwards such isolation, together with without a mutual tongue, it was slowly for me to philosophise. Quechua lifestyle together with practices felt almost unadulterated past times urban trends. Their culture, descended from the Incas, embraces skills, beliefs together with a moral code that is inconsistent with my experience of contemporary Western culture, nevertheless feels hence nostalgically familiar to me together with compatible with my nature.
The epitome she has produced equally a effect of her trip commands the business office of the gallery it is located inwards the NPG. The reds are amazingly luminous together with truly depict the optic to expect at the painting.

Some may stimulate got already read nearly her trip equally it was featured inwards an article inwards the Feb 2012 number of Artists & Illustrators Magazine.

These are Jo's weblog posts nearly the journeying together with the procedure (http://blog.jofraser.co.uk/) of producing the epitome - written afterwards she returned
Jo's epitome of "The Weavers" - together with some of the studies forming business office of the portfolio of operate created  - are currently on display inwards the Wolfson Gallery at the National Portrait Gallery (alongside industrial plant inwards the BP Portrait Competition).  Admission is gratis together with the exhibition continues until 23 September.

Studies of the Quechua Weavers past times Jo Fraser
About Jo Fraser
Jo Fraser (Jo Fraser) is Scottish. She was born inwards Edinburgh, together with trained at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art together with Design inwards Dundee.  She graduated inwards 2008 with a kickoff grade honours degree.  Following the success of her grade show, Jo was invited to go the resident creative someone for a castle inwards Angus together with produced portraits of the family’s children. She hence worked extensively together with solely on large portraits for individual collections together with stately homes inwards Scotland.

After she graduated she became the resident creative someone for a castle inwards Angus together with hence ent on to operate on large portraits for individual collections together with stately homes inwards Scotland.   Jo was too Artist inwards Residence at The Edinburgh Academy, Scotland for the 2011/12 academic year. 
Previous BP Travel Award Winners
You tin read nearly together with come across the images produced past times previous BP Travel Award winners inwards previous posts on this blog.
The BP Travel Award 2011 was judged by;
  • Rosie Broadley, Associate Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London
  • Liz Rideal, Art Resource Developer, National Portrait Gallery, London
  • Des Violaris, Director, Great Britain Arts together with Culture, BP

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