| Event Name: | The Threadneedle Prize |
| Description: | 'A triumph...more pleasure and provocation than any Turner show of the past decade.' - Financial Times, 2009
The Threadneedle Prize showcases the best new figurative and representational art in Britain today. Its purpose is to encourage artists with real commitment and vision to submit fresh, powerful and intriguing work created especially for the competition. With over £40,000 to be won, The Threadneedle Prize constitutes one of the largest art prizes in the UK.
Three highly respected art experts have selected The Threadneedle Prize 2010 exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London, choosing 46 works from more than 2,100 entries submitted through open competition. The emphasis for this year’s Prize is on producing a visually coherent exhibition from a collection of outstanding contemporary figurative paintings and sculptures. Selecting work which offers a fresh interpretation on the world around us, this collective approach takes the Prize in a new direction.
The selectors for this year’s Prize are Dr Xavier Bray, Assistant Curator at the National Gallery and curator of the hugely successful The Sacred Made Real exhibition, David Rayson, Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art, and Michael Sandle RA, whose sculpture, Twentieth Century Memorial, was exhibited in the Tate’s Duveen Gallery in 2008.
The winner of the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize has already been chosen by the selectors, and will be announced by Victoria Coren at a special Awards event on 15 September 2010. Each of the six runners-up will receive £1,000. The seven shortlisted artists are Boyd and Evans, Patricia Cain, Paul Cummings, Thomas Doran, James Jessop, Stuart McCaffer and Caroline Walker.
New for 2010 is the £10,000 prize for the Visitors Choice, which will be awarded by the general public visiting the exhibition. If the public vote coincides with the selectors’ decision, one artist will win a total of £35,000, making The Threadneedle Prize potentially the most valuable art competition for a single work of art in the UK.
Admission: £2.50, concessions £1.50 (free to FBA Friends, Art Fund?members, Westminster Res-card holders and under 16s)
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| Type of Event: | Art Shows - Events |
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| Event Location: | Mall Galleries |
| Event City: | London |
| Type of Venue: | Gallery |
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| Directions: | Underground: Charing Cross (2 minutes walk), Piccadilly Circus (5 minutes walk), Embankment (5 minutes walk)
National Rail: Charing Cross?
Buses: 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 29, 53, 87, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176, 453
Car: There is pay and display parking in Carlton House Terrace and Waterloo Place (behind the Mall Galleries) and there is a public car park within 50 metres on Cockspur Court (off Spring Gardens).
Further travel information and assistance can be found at Transport for London's website. |
| Event Start Date | 02-Sep-10 |
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