Published to accompany the BP Portrait Award 2014, held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 26 June to 21 September 2014, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens from 4 October to 16 November 2014 and Scottish National Portrait Gallery from 28 November 2014 to 12 April 2015.
TheBP Portrait Award, now in its thirty-firstyear, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. In 2018more than 270,000people visited the exhibitionbased on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The cataloguepresentsaround forty-eight works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. Including an illustrated introductory essayby a well-known author, the catalogue alsofeatures an illustrated interview with the previous year's Travel Award winner. It also features interviews with the 2020prizewinnersby Richard McClure, which give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.