![]() The minimum price is £300 (Use £0 on form for NFS Works).For Sale: You can enter work "not for sale" - use NFS to indicate this.Exhibitions: Work must NOT have been exhibited previously.Dry: Paintings MUST be COMPLETELY DRY at the time of delivery.Age: MUST have been completed in the last three years.Number:a maximum of three works (of which a maximum of three will be selected).Size: MUST NOT be larger than 2.4m along the longest dimension.Media : any medium including original prints (BUT excluding sculpture and photography).I'd go so far as to say it needs to be better than some of the artwork submitted by members! your work needs to be VERY GOOD to get selected.a SIGNIFICANT number of artists from overseas submit their work - with an increasing number from Asia.(This is a not untypical percentage for a top exhibition and is better than the acceptance rate for BP Portrait over several years when that was running) about 5% of the works submitted via the open entry were selected for the open exhibition.about half the portraits exhibited were by non-members.Your chances of getting exhibited: Exhibition Metrics: I haven't crunched the numbers since 2019 but back then the data analysis I did was as follows.See my 2016 blog post Comparison of the RSPP Open and BP Portrait Award Competition which analysed the similarities and differences and concluded that more artists should submit to this Open Exhibition.There are no administrators, sponsors, gallerists, art critics or other such éminence grise who get a say on what gets hung. The Selection Committee is rotated annually. ALL works selected for exhibition from the Open Entry are chosen by practising professional portrait artists who are full artist members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.Why it compares favourably to the BP Portrait and other portrait competitions It is presented each year with a certificate and a cheque for £2,000. The Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award for Classically Inspired Portraiture: The Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award, established by its founders William Bortrick and Mark Ayre in 2015, is presented for Classically Inspired Portraiture in the RP Annual Exhibition.The Prince of Wales's Award for Portrait Drawing: £2,000 and framed certificate for a portrait in any recognised drawing medium.The RP Prize for the Best Small Portrait: A prize of £2,000 for the best small portrait in the exhibition, measuring not more than 38 x 30.5 cm (15 x 12 inches) unframed.The RP Award: £2,000 will be awarded to the artist whose work best represents the year's chosen theme - which for 2022 is 'Self-Portrait'.The de Laszlo Foundation Award: £3,000 plus a Silver Medal for the most outstanding portrait by an artist aged 35 years or under.The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture: £10,000 plus the Society’s Gold Medal awarded for the most distinguished portrait in the Society’s annual exhibition.The William Lock Portrait Prize: £20,000 for the most timeless portrait with a real feeling for paint and its aesthetic potential.An expert Commissions Consultant service runs throughout the showĪrtists accepted for exhibition will be invited to advertise portrait commissions through our Commissions department on which a commission will be payable.Exhibiting artists are invited to display additional material.Take a look at my 2015 post Top 10 portrait painters - and a commissions checklist This exhibition is very much a marketing shop window. This exhibition generates a LOT of portrait commissions.The Importance of Exhibitions to Portrait Commissions ![]() Not all selected portraits are huge! There's a good selection of small works. So most entries only incur the expense of the submission fee. You only need to go to the expense of framing and transport IF invited to progress to the second stage of selection. ![]() Reasons why you should enter the RP's annual exhibitionįor those wondering whether and why they should submit an entry to this exhibition, take a look at the following.
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