Threadneedle Prize 2014 - The Shortlist

Six finalists have been selected for the Shortlist for the Threadneedle Prize 2014 awarded to the very best in new figurative and representational art.

The prize on offer is a £20,000 Prize and a solo exhibition of a wider body of work at the Mall Galleries in 2015. 

Artists shortlisted for The Threadneedle Prize 2014 outside the Mall Galleries the exhibition opens on 25th September

The finalists have been selected from over 3,600 entries and their artwork will be exhibited alongside 58 other entries. The entries have continued to increase year on year in part fue to the continued sponsorship by the Threadneedle Foundation.

The Threadneedle Prize Exhibition opens at the Mall Galleries on 25th September and continues until 11th October 2014. All the works in the exhibition are for sale.

Importantly all exhibitors are also eligible for the £10,000 Visitors’ Choice Award.

The Threadneedle Prize 2014 Shortlist

The six shortlisted artists are:

• Sue Williams A’Court, 
• Thomas Allen, 
• Sarah Ball, 
• Tina Jenkins, 
• David Teager-Portman and 
• Craig Wylie 

They were selected by a panel of experts comprising

• Arts Commissioning Editor and Art Critic at The Times, Nancy Durrant; 
• Internationally exhibited and collected sculptor, Kevin Francis Gray; 
• Independent Advisor and Curator of the Hiscox Collection, Whitney Hintz; and 
• Gallerist and Founder of Art Dubai, John Martin, who has two gallery spaces in London.

Panel member Kevin Francis Gray spoke about the shortlisted artists

“This year’s shortlist highlights the talent of practicing artists who both find ongoing inspiration in the human form and the abstraction of the human form, as indeed have generations of artists before them. This year’s prize shows the need for the support of a timeless response – that of interpreting our artistic experiences in a manner based in representation.”

Below you will find images of the work and the artists and my commentary on the work - as yet unseen in person.

However tomorrow night is the Awards Dinner to which I am invited - and I'm looking forward to hearing the announcement of who has won The Threadneedle Prize. My iPad will be going with me and you might even get a video!

Sue Williams A'Court

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