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BP Portrait Award 2007
Essay by Lynne Truss
'One of Britain's most prestigious and lucrative art prizes'
The Guardian
The BP Portrait Award, now in its twenty-eighth year,
is a popular fixture on the summer calendar, and is the leading
showcase for artists specializing in portraiture. Last year 197,000
people visited the exhibition. This year, for the first time,
the competition is open to all artists aged eighteen and over
from around the world. The 2007 award received a record-number
of entrants (1,870), all competing for the main prize of £25,000.
There is also a new prize for artists aged between eighteen and
thirty.
The catalogue features over sixty works from an international
list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles
and painterly techniques, highlighting the vitality of portrait
painting today. It also includes a witty and illuminating essay
by popular writer and journalist Lynne Truss and an illustrated
article by Toby Wiggins, the travel-award winner 2006. Toby Wiggins
portrays the people who work the land in Dorset. His portraits
show his respect and admiration for their skill and knowledge
and his deep commitment to rural life, which is under threat.
Lynne Truss is the author of the New York Times bestseller
Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today,
or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door and The
Lynne Truss Treasury. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, for which
she won Britain's Book of the Year Award, and which has sold
more than three million copies worldwide. Truss is a regular
host on BBC Radio 4, a Times (London) columnist, and the
author of numerous radio comedy dramas. She lives in London and
Brighton, England.
Published to accompany the summer exhibition at the National
Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 June to 16 September 2007 and
its tour to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, from 13 October to
2 December 2007 and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh,
from 14 December 2007 to 16 March 2008.
190 x 125mm, 88 pages
With 68 colour illustrations
ISBN 13: 978 1 85514 385 2
Special online promotion £7.99 (RRP £8.50 paperback)
Exhibition catalogue/contemporary portraiture
Published 14 June 2007
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