BP PORTRAIT AWARD
2009-08-03The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £25,000, the exhibition has proved to be the launch pad for the careers of a number of successful portrait artists. From a record entry of over 1,900 artists, this year’s exhibition will present fifty-six selected portraits, including the three shortlisted artists – Annalisa Avancini for Manuel, Michael Gaskell for Tom and Peter Monkman for Changeling 2 – alongside the work of the BP Travel Award 2008 winner Emmanouil Bitsakis who visited China in celebration of the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Opposite – Agnes, Natalie Holland, 2009
Exhibition runs through to September the 20th, 2009
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London
WC2H 0HE
