Benjamin Sullivan (artist)

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Benjamin Sullivan
Born (1977-05-10) 10 May 1977 (age 41)
Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England
Education Edinburgh College of Art
Known for Painting

Benjamin Sullivan (born 1977 in Grimsby) is an English artist best known for portraiture. He lives and works in Suffolk.

Grimsby seaport in Lincolnshire, England

Grimsby, also Great Grimsby, is a large coastal English seaport and administrative centre in North East Lincolnshire, on the South Bank of the Humber Estuary, close to where it reaches the North Sea. It ran the largest fishing fleet in the world by the mid-20th century, but fishing declined dramatically after the Cod Wars denied UK access to Icelandic fishing grounds, and the European Union parcelled out fishing quotas in waters within a 200-mile limit of the UK coast to other European countries, in line with its Common Fisheries Policy. Since then Grimsby has suffered post-industrial decline, although food manufacturing has been encouraged since the 1990s. The Grimsby–Cleethorpes conurbation acts as a cultural, shopping and industrial centre for much of northern and eastern Lincolnshire. Grimsby people are called Grimbarians; the term codhead is also used jokingly, often for Grimsby football supporters. Great Grimsby Day is 22 January.

Suffolk County of England

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket and Felixstowe, one of the largest container ports in Europe.

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Life and work

Benjamin Sullivan studied painting and drawing at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in 2000. [1] He was elected a member of the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2001 and 2003 respectively, becoming the youngest person to be elected to those institutions. [2]

Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing its history back to 1760, it provides higher education in art and design, architecture, history of art, and music disciplines for over two thousand students, and is at the forefront of research and research-led teaching in the creative arts, humanities, and creative technologies. ECA comprises five subject areas: School of Art, Reid School of Music, School of Design, School of History of Art, and Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA). ECA is mainly located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, overlooking the Grassmarket; the Lauriston Place campus is located in the University of Edinburgh's Central Area Campus, not far from George Square.

New English Art Club organization

The New English Art Club (NEAC) was founded in London in 1885 as an alternative venue to the Royal Academy. It continues to hold an annual exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Mall Galleries in London, exhibiting works by both members and artists from Britain and abroad whose work has been selected from an annual open submission.

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) is an art society based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London.

In 2007 he won the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. [3] His work is to be found in numerous public and private collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, London. [4]

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize is an annual art award, intended to encourage creative representational painting and draughtsmanship. It gives out prizes totalling £25,000. The prize originated in London in 2005, with a collaboration between the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation. The final exhibition has been held at the Mall Galleries, London, since 2012.

National Portrait Gallery, London Art museum in London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

In 2009 he became artist in residence at All Souls College, Oxford, where he undertook a large commission depicting College staff. [5] [6] The resulting work, The All Souls Triptych, was displayed at the Ashmolean Museum [7] [8] in 2012 and now sits in one of one of Nicholas Hawksmoor's twin towers at All Souls College. [9] In 2014 Sullivan was appointed artist in residence at the Reform Club. [10] .

Ashmolean Museum University Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, England

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–83 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677.

Nicholas Hawksmoor was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's City of London churches, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Part of his work has been correctly attributed to him only relatively recently, and his influence has reached several poets and authors of the twentieth century.

Reform Club Historic gentlemens club in Westminster, UK

The Reform Club is a private members' club on the south side of Pall Mall in central London, England. As with all of London's original gentlemen's clubs, it comprised an all-male membership for decades, but it was the first to change its rules to include the admission of women on equal terms in 1981. Since its founding in 1836, the Reform Club has been the traditional home for those committed to progressive political ideas, with its membership initially consisting of Radicals and Whigs. However, it is no longer associated with any particular political party, and it now serves a purely social function.

In 2017, Sullivan won first place in the BP Portrait awards for "Breech!", a portrait of his wife breast-feeding their infant daughter. [11]

BP Portrait Award

The BP Portrait Award is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. It is the successor to the John Player Portrait Award. It is the most important portrait prize in the world, and is reputedly one of the most prestigious competitions in contemporary art. The Daily Mail has called it "the portraiture Oscars".

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References

  1. ↑ McLean, Jack, The Herald, "Old school is eclipsed", 23 June 2000, Retrieved 19 June 2014
  2. ↑ Baile de Laperriere, Charles, "Who's Who in Art", 2004, p700, ISBN   0-904722-39-2
  3. ↑ Gascoigne, Laura, The Spectator, "Multiple Choice", Nov 2007, p68
  4. ↑ Nairne, Sandy, "500 Portraits", 2011, p319, ISBN   978-1-85514-448-4
  5. ↑ Offer, Avner, "Benjamin Sullivan's All Souls Triptych", 2012, p5, ISBN   978-0-9527826-4-3
  6. ↑ Ed., , Standpoint, Oct 2012, Issue46 p10
  7. ↑ Ashmolean website, News & Events, Retrieved 15 June 2014
  8. ↑ Gray, Christopher, The Oxford TImes, 27 September 2012, p34
  9. ↑ Lee, David The Jackdaw "A Modern Masterpiece", Retrieved 15 June 2014
  10. ↑ Turnbull, Catherine, Haverhill Echo, "Artist will sketch at the Reform Club", 11 September 2014, p15
  11. ↑ "BP Portrait Award 2017 - First Prize". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-01.

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