First
Prize: A cash award of £30,000, plus, at the judges’ discretion, a
commission worth £5,000, to be agreed between the National Portrait Gallery and
the artist.
Second
Prize: £10,000
Third
Prize: £8,000
BP Young Artist
Award: £7,000
All selected artists
aged between 18 and 30 will automatically be considered for both the BP Young
Artist Award and the BP Portrait Award, but an individual cannot win
both.
BP Travel Award
2013: £6,000
Judging
The competition
is judged, on an equal and anonymous basis, from original paintings. An
exhibition is then created from a selection of the entries.
Many artists who
have had their work exhibited have gained commissions as a result of the
considerable interest in the BP Portrait Award and the resulting
exhibition. Recent commissions by BP Portrait Awardartists
include Julia Donaldson by Peter Monkman (BP Portrait Award
2009 winner).
This year’s
judging panel are:
Sandy Nairne,
Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
Sarah Howgate,
Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery
Dr Alexander
Sturgis, Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath
Joanna Trollope,
Author
Des Violaris,
Director, UK Arts and Culture, BP
Jonathan Yeo,
Artist
The BP
Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery is the portraiture Oscars.
For 34 years it has been the most prestigious prize in the genre.’ Mail on
Sunday, June 2013
The Portrait
Award, now in its thirty-fifth year at the National Portrait Gallery and
twenty-fifth year of sponsorship by BP, is the most prestigious portrait
painting competition in the world. With a first prize of £30,000, and a total
prize fund of £61,000, the Award is aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon
and develop portraiture in their work.
Open to everyone
over 18
The competition
is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world in recognition of
the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by artists of all
ages working in portraiture.
Last year 1,969
artists from 78 different counties submitted their work and the exhibition,
which featured fifty-five paintings, was seen by over 285,000 people at the
National Portrait Gallery.
The BP
Portrait Award 2014 exhibition will run at the Gallery from 26 June to 21
September 2014.
HOW TO ENTER
Online
The best way to
register your entry for the BP Portrait Award 2014 is online.
By Post
and return to:
BP Portrait Award
2014
National Portrait
Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE
To request a
postal entry form call 020 7312 6699 or write to the same address.
Contact us
For further
information please contact:
BP Portrait Award
2014
National Portrait
Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE
020 7321 6699
bpaward@npg.org.uk
