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09ÌýAUGUSTÌý2008
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Proverbially, a picture is worth a thousand words and a landscape painting can reveal many details about the location depicted, but what can a portrait tell us about a location? Is it possible for a face to reveal the place?
Sandi Toksvig visits the National Portrait Gallery to meet its contemporary curator, Sarah Howgate, who explains the importance of an award for portrait painters to travel.Ìý Sandi also talks to this year’s winners Timothy Hyman and Gareth Reid to find out how they’ve expressed their chosen destinations - the heat of India and the cold of a Finnish winter – in their paintings of people; and is joined by art critic and historian Richard Cork to discuss the great artist travellers from the renaissance to modern times.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Photo: National Portrait Gallery in London -Ìý
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Sarah Howgate is the contemporary curator at the National Portrait Gallery and one of three judges of the BP Travel Award.Ìý The Award is in its 29th year and is an annual event aiming to encourage artists to develop portraiture in their work.Ìý
12 June - 14 September 2008
Wolfson Gallery (Free admission)
St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE
Tel: 020 7312 2452
Timothy Hyman went to India as the object of his award. In the eighties Timothy went to Baroda, the first Indian art school to be founded after independence.Ìý He met again the Indian artistÌý with whom he had first got acquainted to in London, and became part of the circle of people who associated with the artist.Ìý Over several years Timothy travelled back to India staying for up to three months.Ìý He took the opportunity of the Award to paint this unique group of Indian artists.
Gareth Reid is originally from Belfast but now lives in Glasgow. Gareth is a painter who before the competition had only done portrait paired with landscapes.Ìý Years ago, Gareth saw a film about swimmers in the ice which inspired his proposal for the BP portraiture award.Ìý He travelled to Finland to paint the people from the winter-bathing clubs who regularly swim in man-made ice holes.Ìý Because of extreme temperatures, Gareth could not use paint on the spot but had to first take photographs which he used to paint his portraits.Ìý
is an art critic, historian and former Turner Prize judge.The ´óÏó´«Ã½ cannot be held responsible for
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