Carl Randall Wins Bp Move Honor 2012

Carl Randall has won the BP Travel Award 2012 - for a proposal I constitute most intriguing.

What's every bit intriguing is the human being behind the proposal - together with the icon I singled out as the paradigm for my shipping service nearly the "selected artists" for the BP Portrait Award 2012 (see BP Portrait Award 2012 - 55 Selected Artists)

Dr Carl Randall, Winner of the BP Travel Award 2012
listening to Sir Michael Parkinson read the Award citation (see below)

© Katherine Tyrrell
Carl won for his proposal to move along the Nakasendo Highway betwixt Tokyo to Kyoto inward the footsteps of Japanese woodblock impress creative mortal Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858). On route he volition tape the people, their livelihoods together with the landscape as finds them today inward contrast to what was portrayed past times Hiroshige. Carl’s terminal function volition consist of a serial of small-scale portraits together with they volition endure displayed inward the BP Portrait Award 2013 exhibition.
The BP Travel Award aims to supply the winning creative mortal amongst an chance to sense working inward a unlike environment, inward Great Britain or abroad.  The intention is that the abide by should fund a projection related to portraiture.

Carl Randall's function volition endure shown as purpose of the BP Portrait Award 2013 exhibition together with tour inward 2012-13.

A repeat of Hiroshige's journey


I recollect I'm right inward proverb that Carl intends to switch the route of his journeying from the Nakasendo Highway to the Tokaido Road.  Both are purpose of the Five Routes from Edo (Tokyo) to Kyoto

Review: BP Portrait Award Exhibition 2012 (Part 2)

Carl Randall with Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo
Oil on canvas, 161.5 x 96.5 cm
© Carl Randall
About Carl Randall

It won't endure the commencement fourth dimension Carl has travelled to Japan.  He has lived inward Tokyo for the in conclusion viii years - since 2003.

Nor is it the commencement fourth dimension he's won a major abide by for icon (see a listing of his awards).

Carl originally studied for a BA Honours Degree inward Fine Art (Painting) at the Slade School Of Fine Art (1995-99) inward London.  He won several awards spell at the Slade including:
He too made a habit of applying for together with winning move awards
  • in 1999 he won ane of the half dozen Duveen Travel scholarships (£1.500) awarded past times the Slade together with used it to move to Italia together with Prague
  • in 2002, he won the The Prince of Wales Drawing Studio Landscape Painting Expedition which involved a 2 calendar week landscape trip, staying at the Forbes Chateau de Balleroy inward Normandy, France. 
Since graduation inward 1999, he's done a postgraduate Drawing Year at the Prince's Drawing School (2002-03) together with was inward the same twelvemonth as Stuart Pearson Wright.

In 2003 he became a Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholar.  This provided a 20-month scholarship to maintain his fine art career inward Tokyo, Japan.

At the halt of this, he pursued his postgraduate pedagogy at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts, gaining a Masters Degree inward Oil Painting and, for the in conclusion iii years, working towards his Doctorate inward Fine Art. Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Japan.  During this fourth dimension he was awarded the 2011 Nomura Painting Prize – together with ane of his recent industrial plant was bought for the permanent collection of Tokyo Geidai Art Museum.

Future Exhibitions

'Notes from The Tokyo Underground', a collection of line of piece of job drawings made on Tokyo trains, is to endure exhibited at The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, Sept 8 - October 28, 2012. Exhibition too touring the UK, including to the novel Jerwood Gallery, Hastings.

Paintings together with drawings made inward Nihon volition endure exhibited at 'Tokyo Portraits' a solo exhibition at The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Nihon House, Regents Park, London.  January to March 2014.

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