Bp Portrait Honor 2012 - 55 Selected Artists

These are the 55 artists whose portrait paintings accept been selected for the BP Portrait Award 2012 Exhibition - categorised yesteryear country.  The BP Portrait Award has a showtime prize of £25,000.

The exhibition opens to earth on 21 June at the National Portrait Gallery inwards London - until 23 September afterward which it volition tour the U.K. - amongst exhibitions inwards Edinburgh in addition to Exeter

Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo
by Carl Randall, 2012
© Carl Randall
Click the link inwards the artist's advert to encounter their website (or that of the artist's gallery) in addition to to a greater extent than or their paintings in addition to portraits


Artist: Title of work: Country:
Peter Wegner  Jack Australia
Erik Olsen The Skateboarder Canada
Lesley McCubbin Robin Canada
Agata Wojcieszkiewicz Anita in addition to her studio England
Alan Coulson   Richie Culver SHORTLISTED  England
Alex Hanna Alex side view England
Anastasia Pollard Tim England
Ben Ashton Lindsay Lohan England
Benjamin Sullivan Head Porter England
Carl Randall Mr.Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo England
Edward Sutcliffe Trying to hold out something else England
Eileen Hogan Paul Ruddock England
Elizabeth Thayer Tony England
Emma Wesley Nick inwards Tartan Trousers England
Frances Bell Postman England
Isabella Watling The Importance of beingness Glen England
Ismail Acar Pasha Triptych England
James Stewart Sam Waley-Cohen in addition to Irilut England
Jamie Routley Tony Lewis SHORTLISTED   England
Jean Paul Tibbles Self-portrait England
Leo Holloway Jane England
Louise Pragnell Tom England
Mary Jane Ansell Jonathan (Dad) England
Miriam Escofet John Godfrey CBE, 2010 High Sheriff England
Nancy Fletcher The Portrait Painter England
Nathalie Beauvillain Scott Bruised England
Nathan Ford Joachim England
Paul Moyse Rasputin ever wins England
Ray Richardson Irish Frank England
Rupert Alexander Rob Fahey on Court England
Ruth Murray Tessa in addition to the clay heads England
Tim Benson 92 Years England
Timothy Gatenby Mary waiting to become rollercasting England
Toby Mulligan About Time England
Tony Noble The Twins: Portrait of my married adult woman Jackie in addition to her sis Christine. England
Vanessa Lubach Rosie in addition to Pumpkin England
Antonios Titakis Silent Eyes Greece
Claire Kerr Self-portrait equally an Unknown Gentleman Ireland
Roni Taharlev Self-portrait Israel
Gianluca Capaldo What I See inwards Her . (Quello che vedo inwards lei Italy
Ian Cumberland Today You Were Far Away Northern Ireland
Szekely Kiraly Bogdan Ioan The Spoken Truth Romania
Alexandra Gardner Swallow Scotland
Graeme Wilcox Ian (with prop) Scotland
Peter Goodfellow All dressed upwards for mam in addition to dad Scotland
Antonio Barahona Fatima Spain
Aurelio Rodriguez Lopez Mr Lascelle  Barrow Spain
Ignacio Estudillo El abuelo (Augusta Estudillo) SHORTLISTED   Spain
Ivan Franco Fraga LE ( SALMACIS Num.3 ) Spain
Aleah Chapin Auntie SHORTLISTED  USA
David Eichenberg Devan USA
Erin Wozniak Wes's Dream USA
Alan Salisbury Self-portrait amongst self portraits amongst reference to 'Boy amongst a handbasket of fruit' yesteryear Caravagio Wales
Colin Davidson The Dialects Of Silence (Portrait of Michael Longley) Irish living inwards Wales
Tom Dewhurst Tim Wales

You tin encounter the shortlisted artists here BP Portrait Award 2012 - The Shortlist.  They are eligible for the cash accolade of £25,000 for the icon judged to hold out best portrait inwards the competition.

I recognise a release of names - but my electrical flow thinking is that this exhibition includes a lot of artists who are novel to the BP Portrait Award exhibition.

This is a nautical chart of the selected artists yesteryear country

Due to rounding: 2% = 1 artist; 4% = two artists; 5% = iii artists 7% = four artists
Below is a comparing of final year's entries yesteryear province amongst this year's.  There's been
  • a pocket-size increase inwards the release selected from the U.K. (73%), 
  • a pocket-size decrease inwards those selected from European countries exterior the U.K. (16%), 
  • the North Americans stay only below 10% of the overall selected artists and 
  • an Australian creative somebody (a onetime winner of the 2006 Doug Moran Portrait Prize) has submitted operate in addition to been selected
2011  2,012
 UK  70% 73%
 Europe (ex. UK)  21% 16%
 North America  9% 9%
 Other  0% 2%

Thanks to all at the NPG Press Office for their assistance amongst this post.

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Note:  The argue for choosing a grouping portrait for the epitome for this post is I would actually similar to encounter a prize for those who create portraits of to a greater extent than than i person.  I mean value it's such a compassion that this challenging facial expression of portraiture is non yet recognised with a major prize.  I thought Mr Kitazawa's Noodle Bar, Tokyo by Carl Randall is actually great!

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